I once asked a group of my students if they knew what the term postmodernism meant: one replied that it’s when you put everything in quotation marks. It wasn’t such a bad answer, because concepts such ...

In the film version of "American Psycho," the controversial novel by Bret Easton Ellis, the camera floats down the hallway of an Upper West Side apartment that is meticulously - and minimally - ...

Postmodern theory may be the most loathed concept ever to have emerged from academia. Developed within literature and philosophy departments in the 1970s, it supposedly told us that facts were ...

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In examining Trump as a product of our unique epoch, one of the sharpest analytical tools available is the theory of postmodernism, developed in the 1970s and 1980s by a host of theorists—perhaps most ...

It's been said that truth is the first casualty in war. It could also be said that truth is the first casualty in a decadent and declining society ... and journalists are leading the way. Geopolitical ...

Big Do-Nut Drive-in, Inglewood, Calif., 1976. (HUM Images / Universal Images Group via Getty Images) When, in the beginning, the Abrahamic God separated the heavens from the earth, the light from the ...

The modern world died at 3.32pm in St Louis, Missouri, on 15 July 1972. The dynamiting of the notorious Pruitt Igoe housing scheme was a noise that resonated around the world, at least according to ...