Modernity seems to produce its own specific pathologies. These pathologies are present as global catastrophes, such as global wars, climate crises, and genocides, or as more “common” and almost ...

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 ...

Man is a sovereign, self-governing and autonomous rational being. We, as humans, prefer to call ourselves conservative or are labeled as traditional by our society. We are afraid to accept a change or ...

The events of the 11 September have stirred up a sometimes acrimonious debate about Islam and modernity. Some commentators in the West say the two are not compatible. Others, including many Muslims, ...

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 ...

A book that I’ve been waiting on for a long time has finally been published: The Rise And Triumph Of The Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution, by ...

The question: What is secularism? Religion occupies a unique place in our understanding of modern society and nation-statehood. Having played a particular role in the formation of the European ...

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 ...