The Ninth Circuit judge has embraced the fact that an opinion as opinion can have meaning beyond the arguments it presents.

Why would a watch collector need or want to understand the notoriously vague and confusing concept of postmodernism? To understand postmodernism, we must first understand modernism. In the late 1800s, ...

Back in the 1990s while working for the Clinton administration’s U.S. Office of Personnel Management, I wrote articles in prominent scholarly journals with titles like “Thinking the Unthinkable in ...

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 ...

Most people don’t pay attention to the great sweeps of history. And when we do, we think of wars, famines and all the things that make life livable, and more often unlivable. We’re all vaguely aware ...

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 ...