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Fredric Jameson and Why Postmodernism is an Enemy of Marxism
“[C]ontemporary theory […] has, among other things, been committed to the mission of criticizing and discrediting this very hermeneutic model of the inside and the outside and of stigmatizing such...
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Cornel West’s Genealogical Approach
“My genealogical approach subscribes to a conception of power that is neither simply based on individual subjects—e.g., heroes or great personages as in traditional historiography—nor on collective...
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Pragmatists Versus Agrarians?
This review originally appeared here at The University Bookman. John J. Langdale’s Superfluous Southerners paints a magnificent portrait of Southern conservatism and the Southern Agrarians, and it...
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The Invisible Hand in Popular Culture
This review originally appeared here in The Independent Review. “Television rots your brain.” That’s a refrain many of us grew up hearing, but it isn’t true. So suggests Paul Cantor in The Invisible...
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Review of James Seaton’s “Literary Criticism from Plato to Postmodernism”
This review first appeared here in The University Bookman. Back when I was a pimple-faced graduate student in English and law, I ordered a book from Amazon titled Cultural Conservatism, Political...
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Paul H. Fry on the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory
Below is the next installment in the lecture series on literary theory and criticism by Paul H. Fry. The previous lectures are here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here,...
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John William Corrington on the Structure of Gnostic Consciousness
John William Corrington wrote the essay “The Structure of Gnostic Consciousness” around the time he delivered his paper “Gnosticism and Modern Thought: A Way You’ll Never Be” at a conference titled...
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Cultural Marxism is Real
This piece originally appeared here at the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal. Samuel Moyn, a Yale law professor, recently asked, “What is ‘cultural Marxism?’” His answer: “Nothing of the...
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