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 ...

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 / ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Late one afternoon along San Francisco’s Mission Street, I walked into a sublime panic. The Gray Area Cultural Incubator cohort was setting up its culminating exhibition, premiering in the Grand ...

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 ...

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind is a strange movie. Part of the reason for that description is that it provoked in me a reaction I seldom recall having had. I came out of the film in a state of ...

When New York City pianist Scott Bradlee created Postmodern Jukebox out of a basement in Queens in 2011, his goal was simple: to remake the pop hits of today into the classic sounds of the legends of ...

Don’t be frightened by the name of this lecture series: Notes on How Not to Use “Postmodernism” in a Sentence. Betsy Ermarth promises it will not be another series of talks aimed at the academic elite ...