Moderns vs. Victorians
In the 1920s, the New Woman was taught how to smoke “Torches of Freedom”
History
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
The Meaning of Progress
The Progressive Movement had a dim view of antiracism
Pride and Prejudice Fails To Meet Modern Inclusion Standards
Where are the Black people?
Custodians of Culture
In 1912, America was the cusp of a cultural revolution
Rod Dreher’s Weirdness
Late 20th century Christianity is incompatible with whiteness
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?
William James and Modernist Psychology
The mind is the stream-of-consciousness
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