William James and Modernist Psychology
The mind is the stream-of-consciousness
History
The Origins of the Modern Left
In the 1910s, liberalism fused with modernism to produce cultural liberalism
The Death of the Victorian Mainstream
The death of the Genteel Tradition
James Abbott McNeill Whistler: The First American Modernist
In Paris, James Abbott McNeill Whistler pioneered Modernism with Charles Baudelaire and Édouard Manet
The Birth of the Mainstream
The roots of the American mainstream can be traced back to the Young Intellectuals
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?
American History Series: Review: The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America
A book review of Eric P. Kaufmann’s The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America
How Did We Get To 2020?
The History of the Modernist Age, 1890-2020
Enemies of Enlightenment
How did the Enlightenment succumb to Romanticism?
Sunset
Further thoughts on being on the wrong side of history
Modernism and Protestantism
Christianity was transformed by Modernism in the early 20th century
Major Turnings
Why are there major turnings in culture?
The Death of Modernism
The Modernist Age is coming to a close
Adolf Hitler and Modernism
The Third Reich attempted to suppress Modernism
The Modernist Age
Modernism is the Spirit of the Age
When Persia Ruled The World
The entire history of the Persian Achaemenid Empire
The Wrong Side of History
Progressives are on the wrong side of history
Undercurrents
Reactive forces always emerge around times of crisis
Rebellion
Why have our efforts come to naught?
King George III and the American Revolution
King George III’s perspective on the American Revolution
Extremism Is Inevitable
Why does extremism recur throughout history?
Historical Cycles
The West has been through four modern historical cycles
Reactive Nomads
The eternal Gen Xer
Gray Champions
The final Boomer leaders will be authoritarian, severe, unyielding
Generations
Will the Baby Boomers destroy America?
Turning Points
Consensus Antiracism has plunged America into a new Crisis
An Intellectual History of “Woke” Left Modernism
Eric P. Kaufmann traces the intellectual roots of mainstream culture
The Spanish Flu & How The World Recovered
A new documentary on the Spanish Flu
American History Series: Cosmopolitanism and the Postwar Consensus
Cosmopolitanism became hegemonic in America in the 1940s and 1950s
The Needless War
The Blundering Generation thesis was correct