Explaining America’s Cultural Degeneration
From the Saturday Evening Post to VICE News
Culture
Pope Francis Endorses Homosexual Civil Unions
It is a sad day for faithful Catholics
Margaret Sanger, Free Love and the Birth Control Movement
In the 1910s and 1920s, Margaret Sanger led the Sexual Revolution
Review: Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage
A book review of Stephanie Coontz’s Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage
Review: A History of The Wife
A book review of Marilyn Yalom’s A History of the Wife
Marriage and Modernism
Expressive individualism is a solvent that has dissolved the American family
Modern Women
What the hell happened?
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
The Second Klan and Victorianism
The Second Klan gets bad press. What did it really believe?
Resistance To Modernism In The 1920s
Victorians and Moderns clashed in the 1920s for control over American culture
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 Party Is Over
During the Great Depression, the expatriate writers of the Lost Generation fell to earth
Sigmund Freud, Moderns and the Lost Generation
Sigmund Freud convinced young Moderns that they were sexually repressed
The New Era, The Modernist Intelligentsia and the Development of Modern Culture
In the 1920s, left-progressives began to call themselves “liberals”
Gods of the Upper Air
A new book explores Boasian anthropology
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
Late Victorian Women’s Fashion
In the 1900s and 1910s, young women dressed in the Victorian style
The New Woman and 1920s Fashion
In the 1920s, young women adopted the Modern style
The Hays Code
Hollywood studios policed their own content for several decades
America Is Having a Moral Convulsion
Modern America is in its death throes
The Rise of Hollywood
Jews, Hollywood and the creation of mass culture
The Sun Also Rises
One generation passes away and another generation cometh
Antiracism, Social Science and the Revolt Against Victorian America
Antiracism triumphed in the social sciences in the 1920s