The ghost of modernity—the quest to define what it means to be modern, and what its fundamental principles are—has haunted Western culture for a long time. In his 1991 book We Have Never Been Modern ...

One of the best-known texts of Vatican II is Gaudium et Spes, the pastoral constitution on the Church in the modern world. That unique document, addressed not just to ...

The hideous legacy of modernity can be seen in the ghastliness of the guillotine, the gulag and the gas chamber. The stormtroopers of modernity have trampled much underfoot on their monstrous march ...

Muqtedar Khan teaches at the University of Delaware. He is a co-founder of the Delaware Council for Global and Muslim Affairs and is on Twitter. Updated December 6, 2015, 11:09 PM How can we wrap our ...

Gut-based conditions are on the rise worldwide as are broader patterns of disrupted relationships between humans and food. In particular, the last two decades have witnessed an explosion of scientific ...

I can count on one hand the number of shows devoted to Latin American design at the Museum of Modern Art over the past 34 years (a.k.a. my adult life). Of these, the most significant was “Latin ...

According to one popular account of the decline of Western Civilization, everything was humming along splendidly until the moderns came along and ruined it all. The Greeks, we are told, had ...

MADRID — Berenice Abbott aimed her lens at so many 20th-century subjects that her photographs challenge us to rethink modernity itself. With this in mind, Berenice Abbott: Portraits of Modernity at ...

Last week’s column, (see “The American backlash against modernity,” 1/26/25) elicited responses that seemed to conflate three distinct yet related ideas: modernity, “wokeness,” and diversity, equity, ...