From Babbitt To Bateman: The Bohemian Origins of Consumer Capitalism
The pursuit of aesthetic self expression through alternative lifestyles encouraged a consumption ethic
Liberalism
The Greenwich Village Idea
Malcolm Cowley describes the Modernist culture of Greenwich Village
The Triumph of Antiracism
In the late 1930s, racism was officially condemned by the American Anthropological Association
The Young Intellectuals and Nietzsche
H.L. Mencken, Emma Goldman and the Young Intellectuals Americanized Nietzsche’s philosophy
The Lost Generation and Modernism
In the 1920s, the artists, poets and novelists of the Lost Generation partied in France
Randolph Bourne, Modernism and The New Woman
The New Woman has become the ordinary woman
Hidden Hands: The CIA, Modernism and the Cold War
Modernism was used as a weapon to fight the Nazis and Soviets
This Side of Paradise
Modern America began in the 1920s
The Modernism Debate
Hunter Wallace, Richard Spencer and Keith Woods discuss Modernism
The Revolt Against The Masses
Fred Siegel explains the origins of the modern Left
The Cosmopolitan Ideal
By 1950, the American intelligentsia was half Jewish
The Rise of Modernism
Can a civilization based on Modernism endure?
Contact Theory
Contact theory was the theoretical basis for integration
Review: The End of American Innocence, 1912-1917
A book review of Henry F. May’s The End of American Innocence, 1912-1917
The Young Intellectuals
The Masses redefined the modern Left as left-libertarian
The Cuties Uproar
Cuties wallows in the filth of Modernist decadence
The Roots of Cultural Liberalism
Tracing the genealogy of cultural liberalism
Pride and Prejudice Fails To Meet Modern Inclusion Standards
Where are the Black people?
American Racial Decline and Modernism
Did Modernism cause America’s racial and cultural decline?
“Ethan Is Supreme” Has Died Of a Drug Overdose
17-year-old social media beauty influencer has passed
Practical Applications
A slideshow of Modern values
The Origins of the Modern Left
In the 1910s, liberalism fused with modernism to produce cultural liberalism
James Lindsay Lashes Out At Conservatives
James Lindsay isn’t telling the truth about liberalism and wokeness
The Birth of the Mainstream
The roots of the American mainstream can be traced back to the Young Intellectuals
Modernism and Capitalism
Modernism emancipates the aesthetic from moral norms
The Moderns
What is Modern culture?
American History Series: Review: The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America
A book review of Eric P. Kaufmann’s The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America
How Did We Get To 2020?
The History of the Modernist Age, 1890-2020
Isaiah Berlin: Romanticism – The First Attack on Enlightenment
Isaiah Berlin on the Enlightenment and Romanticism
Sunset
Further thoughts on being on the wrong side of history
Modernism and Protestantism
Christianity was transformed by Modernism in the early 20th century
The Federalist: American Left Is “The Only One In The World That Hates Their Country”
Why does the Left hate America?