As pundits and scholars come to terms with the new “post-truth” era, the fingers point to a familiar intellectual culprit: postmodernism. Columnist Paul Waldman, writing in The American Prospect, ...

“I fear for the future of the humanities,” said scholar Helen Pluckrose. As should any reasonable individual. What is postmodern theory? And how did it result in this ideological corruption of the ...

We were hoping for it to happen in the early 2000s. We saw it coming with the opening of the exhibition “Postmodernism: Style and Subversion, 1970 – 1990” at the V&A in London in 2011. But now, after ...

We are no longer modern; we are contemporary. By the 1970s, the idea of the modern had become timeworn, and critics and philosophers diagnosed a turn to the postmodern. Now we seem to be in the midst ...

Over the past fifty years, postmodern theory—an umbrella term generally used to refer to such diverse theoretical movements and paradigms as post-structuralism, Lacanian psychoanalysis, deconstruction ...

I received the following e-mail from a reader, in response to my “Race, Identity Politics, and Evangelicalism” post. He gives me permission to use it, so long as I keep his name out of it. There’s a ...

EdSource · How one student got her middle school to change its name (rebroadcast) People who care about California’s children watched in horror this week as the battle between Governor Brown and Molly ...