I awaited the opening of “Andy Warhol: Revelation” at the Brooklyn Museum with great anticipation. The exhibit, which “explores the artist’s lifelong relationship with his faith that frequently ...

“I fear for the future of the humanities,” said scholar Helen Pluckrose. As should any reasonable individual. What is postmodern theory? And how did it result in this ideological corruption of the ...

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 / ...

In February the Jesuit theologian Roger Haight, former professor at Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, received notification that the Vatican had found “serious doctrinal ...

In my profile on Charlie LeDuff (on newsstands this week), I made the casual claim that LeDuff is in fact no mere reporter — he is perhaps the world’s premier postmodern reporter. Realizing that not ...

I was concelebrating at a funeral Mass for a deceased Jesuit. The homilist praised the deceased for having “built a bridge between postmodern culture and the church.” I was sitting in a tour bus in ...

Architectural modernism: Le Corbusier -- Literary modernism -- Modernism versus popular literature -- The Frankfurt school versus Walter Benjamin -- Flowering of an orthodoxy -- Myths of origin: 1970s ...

We were hoping for it to happen in the early 2000s. We saw it coming with the opening of the exhibition “Postmodernism: Style and Subversion, 1970 – 1990” at the V&A in London in 2011. But now, after ...

Remember postmodern architecture? Those patchwork buildings with bits of classical decoration and bright colors that were all the rage in the 1970s and 1980s? Think of the AT&T Building with its ...