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 ...

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 ...

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In 2018, Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay, the editor of Areo magazine and a Ph.D. mathematician, respectively, achieved internet stardom when they revealed that (along with co-conspirator Peter ...

"Postmodernism, as it applies to science, is the philosophical position that science is nothing more than a cultural narrative and therefore has no special or privileged relationship with the truth." ...

Over the past fifty years, postmodern theory—an umbrella term generally used to refer to such diverse theoretical movements and paradigms as post-structuralism, Lacanian psychoanalysis, deconstruction ...

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Postmodernism, per Encyclopedia Britannica, is “a late 20th-century movement characterized by broad skepticism, subjectivism, or relativism.” Postmodernist thought has emerged largely as a challenge ...

"First published as a Very Short Introduction 2002"--Title page verso. "Postmodernism has been a buzzword in contemporary society for the last decade. But how can it be defined? In this Very Short ...

In Part 1 of this series, I discussed the illusion of knowledge in the context of COVID-19 and explained how much of what we think we know is actually belief, taken as truth, because it came from a ...

Postmodernism is a big, cumbersome word, but that’s fitting because the concept is big and cumbersome. The fact is, however, we are living in this “ism” right now. As Bob Dylan summed it up at the ...