Postmodernism

Post-Modern Conservatism: A Draft Manifesto (continued)

by Austin Stone

Bowing to relentless and overwhelming demand from postmodern-leaning lovers of truth and virtue waiting somewhere out there in cyberspace, I offer this extended version of the Draft Manifesto from a few weeks ago.  (I include the previously published first 8 points here, so you won’t . . . . Continue Reading »

Tradition and Creativity in the Writing of History

by Gertrude Himmelfarb

For the historian, as for the philosopher, the quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns is being superseded by a quarrel between the Moderns and the Postmoderns. If the great subversive principle of modernity is historicism—a form of relativism that locates the meaning of ideas and events so . . . . Continue Reading »