Postmodernism means different things in different contexts. In philosophy the term refers to certain currents in French philosophy since the 1960s, including especially thinkers such as Jacques ...

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A new book by Stuart Jeffries claims we never left behind this heady, late-20th-century period of cultural and political expression. Big Do-Nut Drive-in, Inglewood, Calif., 1976. (HUM Images / ...

The Trump administration’s war on the environment, which was accelerated this week with the president’s executive order to dismantle various environmental protections, is a product of the ...