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
Culture
Fitzgerald, Hemingway and American Existentialism
American intellectuals developed modernism and existentialism in the 1920s
Moral Collapse In The 1920s
In the 1920s, liberals attempted to base morality on pragmatism, relativism and social science
The Real Babbitt
Irving Babbitt and the New Humanists were scorned by the modernists of their time
Filter’s Murica
Filter’s latest music video is about an unhinged, Trump-supporting, gun-loving, unmedicated, super-freak
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
American Crucible
In the early 20th century, civic nationalism eclipsed racial nationalism with disastrous results
Modernist Horrors
A photo gallery a cultural degeneration
The Adversary Culture
What is Left-Modernism?
Cultural Reunification
In the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s, American culture was heavily influenced by Europe
Explaining America’s Cultural Degeneration
From the Saturday Evening Post to VICE News
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