The Rise of Hollywood
Jews, Hollywood and the creation of mass culture
History
Victorian Racial Attitudes
Victorian racial attitudes prevailed well into the 20th century
Franz Boas, Antiracism and the Rockefeller Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation financed Boasian anthropology
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
Victorian America
What was Victorian America?
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 Triumph of Antiracism
In the late 1930s, racism was officially condemned by the American Anthropological Association
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 Modernism Debate
Hunter Wallace, Richard Spencer and Keith Woods discuss Modernism
The Revolt Against The Masses
Fred Siegel explains the origins of the modern Left
The Cosmopolitan Ideal
By 1950, the American intelligentsia was half Jewish
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
Review: The Intellectuals and the Masses
A book review of John Carey’s The Intellectuals & The Masses: Pride & Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligentsia, 1880-1939
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
The New Woman
The New Woman valued self-fulfillment and independence
The Young Intellectuals
The Masses redefined the modern Left as left-libertarian
H.L. Mencken, Nietzsche and the Death of the Victorian Mainstream
H.L. Mencken led the assault on the Victorian mainstream
The Roots of Cultural Liberalism
Tracing the genealogy of cultural liberalism