The Adversary Culture
What is Left-Modernism?
Liberalism
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
Margaret Sanger, Free Love and the Birth Control Movement
In the 1910s and 1920s, Margaret Sanger led the Sexual Revolution
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
Macron Decries Beheading of French Teacher
A French history teacher has been decapitated for displaying caricatures of Mohammad
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
The Party Is Over
During the Great Depression, the expatriate writers of the Lost Generation fell to earth
The New Era, The Modernist Intelligentsia and the Development of Modern Culture
In the 1920s, left-progressives began to call themselves “liberals”
Modernists and American Historiography
In the 1930s, America was transformed from an Anglo-Protestant nation to a modernist liberal melting pot
The New Era
Modern couples go on dates
The Hays Code
Hollywood studios policed their own content for several decades
The Second Klan and Modernism
100,000 Klansmen gathered in Kokomo, IN in 1923
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
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 Rise of Modernism
Can a civilization based on Modernism endure?
Contact Theory
Contact theory was the theoretical basis for integration