H.L. Mencken, Nietzsche and the Culture War
The Übermensch of Baltimore tore down America’s Victorian culture
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
The Second Klan and Modernism
100,000 Klansmen gathered in Kokomo, IN in 1923
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?