Hideous New MLK Monument Unveiled In Boston
“The Embrace” is now on display on Boston Common
Aesthetics
Met Gala 2021 Showcased American Cultural Decline
America’s cultural elites wallowed in their own filth last night
TAC: Money Down The Toilet In Afghanistan
Americans actually introduced Afghan colonials to Marcel Duchamp’s Urinal
ITV: Casts of Faces of 850 “Trans” People To Be Displayed In Trafalgar Square
New monuments are still rising in Britain
Reason: Nationalist Conservatives Are Abandoning the Ideas of Liberty
Liberty should not be confused with modernism
Oracle: Rockefeller Center Unveils Giant 25-Foot African Statute
“Oracle” subverts traditional sculpture and challenges the tropes of classical artwork
TAC: Lil Nas X “Montero” Deep Dive
Jonathan Pageau analyzes the Satanic imagery and self-love of Lil Nas X’s single “Montero”
NY Mag: Lil Nas X, Cardi B, and the Anti-Pop Conservative Outrage Machine
The critics of modernism were on “the right side of history”
American History Series: Review: The Nervous Generation: American Thought, 1917-1930
A book review of Roderick Nash’s The Nervous Generation: American Thought, 1917-1930
Fitzgerald, Hemingway and American Existentialism
American intellectuals developed modernism and existentialism in the 1920s
The Real Babbitt
Irving Babbitt and the New Humanists were scorned by the modernists of their time
The Myth of the 1920s
How lost was the Lost Generation?
Christianity and Youth Rebellion In The 1920s
In the 1920s, the church ceased to shape the behavior of youth
The Damned and the Beautiful
In the 1920s, Victorian culture disintegrated and Modern culture emerged as a youth culture
Dissecting Modernism
Hunter Wallace and Keith Woods discuss the rise of Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th century West
Modernist Horrors
A photo gallery a cultural degeneration
The Adversary Culture
What is Left-Modernism?
Margaret Sanger, Free Love and the Birth Control Movement
In the 1910s and 1920s, Margaret Sanger led the Sexual Revolution
Marriage and Modernism
Expressive individualism is a solvent that has dissolved the American family
Jews and Early American Modernism
Jews were heavily involved in American Modernism
The Liberal Club
In 1912, the Liberal Club was founded in the heart of Greenwich Village and became a gathering place for young Moderns
American History Series: Review: Rebellion Against Victorianism
A book review of Stanley Coben’s Revolt Against Victorianism: The Impetus for Cultural Change in 1920s America
The New York Avant-Garde and Vitalism
Vitalism brought alienated WASP radicals into contact with the Jewish radicals of the Lower East Side
100 Years of Beauty
The ultimate women’s fashion collection
American History Series: Review: New World Coming
A book review of Nathan Miller’s New World Coming: The 1920s and the Making of Modern America
The New Era, The Modernist Intelligentsia and the Development of Modern Culture
In the 1920s, left-progressives began to call themselves “liberals”
Modernists and American Historiography
In the 1930s, America was transformed from an Anglo-Protestant nation to a modernist liberal melting pot
H.L. Mencken, Nietzsche and the Culture War
The Übermensch of Baltimore tore down America’s Victorian culture
Jazz and Black Politics In the 1920s
The Jazz Question and antiracism are related
Civilization in the United States
In the 1920s, a cultural fault line opened up that never closed
H.L. Mencken, The Scopes Monkey Trial and the Culture War
In 1925, the Scopes Monkey Trial pitted Victorians against Modernists
The New Era
Modern couples go on dates