The Second Klan and Modernism
100,000 Klansmen gathered in Kokomo, IN in 1923
Culture
Towards a Definition of American Modernism
Modernism deserves to be treated as a full-fledged historical culture
From Babbitt To Bateman: The Bohemian Origins of Consumer Capitalism
The pursuit of aesthetic self expression through alternative lifestyles encouraged a consumption ethic
The Greenwich Village Idea
Malcolm Cowley describes the Modernist culture of Greenwich Village
George Babbitt, Main Street and the Origins of the Culture War
The culture war between Moderns and Victorians began in the 1920s
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 Retreat of Racial Science
Racial science fell out of favor in the 1920s
Moderns vs. Victorians
In the 1920s, the New Woman was taught how to smoke “Torches of Freedom”
The Lost Generation, Jazz and Deracination
The Jazz Question and the deracination of White America
T.S. Eliot: Anti-Modern Modernist
T.S. Eliot was an eccentric Modernist who rejected his own time
The Rise of Modernism
Can a civilization based on Modernism endure?
Inventing Tomorrow: H.G. Wells, Modernism and the Future
H.G. Wells imagined the Modernist utopia
Review: The End of American Innocence, 1912-1917
A book review of Henry F. May’s The End of American Innocence, 1912-1917
H.L. Mencken, Nietzsche and the Death of the Victorian Mainstream
H.L. Mencken led the assault on the Victorian mainstream
The Cuties Uproar
Cuties wallows in the filth of Modernist decadence
Pride and Prejudice Fails To Meet Modern Inclusion Standards
Where are the Black people?
Nietzsche’s Insanity, Oscar Wilde’s Aestheticism and Modernism
In the Modern Age, religion and ethics takes a backseat to aesthetics and psychology
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
William James and Modernist Psychology
The mind is the stream-of-consciousness
Practical Applications
A slideshow of Modern values
The Origins of the Modern Left
In the 1910s, liberalism fused with modernism to produce cultural liberalism
The Revolt of the Elites
Modernist intellectuals answered Nietzsche’s call to declare war on the masses
Charles Baudelaire: Founding Father of Modernism
The great revolt of the Moderns against the bourgeois begins with Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire: The Tortured Soul Who Inspired Modernism
Modernism begins with Charles Baudelaire in 19th century France
The Moderns
What is Modern culture?
How Did We Get To 2020?
The History of the Modernist Age, 1890-2020
Major Turnings and Communication Mediums
Technological change destabilizes culture