Note: “Explainer” is our newest addition to the series of features on Off the Agenda. Here editor Drew Dyck will tackle current ideas, movements, or whatever else people are talking about. He doesn’t ...

Back in the 1990s while working for the Clinton administration’s U.S. Office of Personnel Management, I wrote articles in prominent scholarly journals with titles like “Thinking the Unthinkable in ...

Why would a watch collector need or want to understand the notoriously vague and confusing concept of postmodernism? To understand postmodernism, we must first understand modernism. In the late 1800s, ...

BOOK EXCERPT: ‘While many feel rudderless and the temptation to despair is real, the truth can be known and has revealed itself within the person of Christ.’ Church tower of the Basilica of the ...

The intellectual titan bestowed on us so many things, chief among them a reminder to Always Be Historicizing. On Sunday, the literary theorist and critic Fredric Jameson—an intellectual titan and one ...

From Insurgent Notes #27, May 2025. Where there had been in 1960 earnest, crew-cut, and bobbed-hair liberal supporters of JFK and Young Republicans, there were in 1970 Trotskyists, Stalinists, Maoists ...

Most people don’t pay attention to the great sweeps of history. And when we do, we think of wars, famines and all the things that make life livable, and more often unlivable. We’re all vaguely aware ...

The term postmodernism is a mouthful, to say and to understand, but it is a critical concept to make sense of our world today, especially in the U.S. and especially since 1960. Britanica.com defines ...

While Radiohead's debut single "Creep" evokes a seedy, underground British music venue that might leave your shoes with a sticky residue of too many drinks spilt, Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox's ...

Transforming pop tunes into jaunty jazz songs and quirky ballads isn't new. Scott Bradlee, the leader of Postmodern Jukebox, is taking a page from jazz musicians of the 1930s. It's not surprising that ...