Postmodernism

P. Gardner Goldsmith | May 2, 2023
In a move that reflects not only the extent to which Postmodern collectivists have succeeded in using linguistic legerdemain to push their political…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | March 6, 2023
The euphemism, “a new fold in the story,” became technologically ironic this week, as angry readers claimed that Amazon appears to have replaced…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | February 28, 2023
Among only a few iconic characters in the history of literature and film, James Bond stands astride the cultural landscape like a handsome, outwardly…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | February 20, 2023
Writers and advocates of fine writing have seen this coming. It began decades ago as part of the Postmodern “Deconstructionism” movement in college…
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P. Gardner Goldsmith | August 22, 2022
Even as online overlords try to stop the signals of freedom and common sense, principled people find ways to propagate important information, and…
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P. Gardner Goldsmith | July 5, 2022
    It’s safe to say that we live in the Humpty Dumpty era. Humpty was, of course, the haughty royal egg-man in Lewis Carroll’s 1871 novel “…
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P. Gardner Goldsmith | May 18, 2022
A Wisconsin city that bills itself as “the little city that does BIG things” just made a BIG splash for a BIG stroke of “woke” genius. As Monique…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | April 3, 2022
  One of the key weapons added to the leftist arsenal in the last century is called “semiotics” – the postmodernist tactic of redefining words…
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P. Gardner Goldsmith | September 21, 2021
Sometimes, collectivists can be pretty darn crafty. And, in exhibiting that behavior – often to further their collectivist ideology – they expose…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | June 22, 2021
    If the irony of living in a nation-state where hordes of politicians constantly drone on about doing things “for the children,” even as they…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | May 19, 2021
In yet another use of postmodernist semiotics and “critical theory” – the ideas that words can be defined to mean anything (especially to gain…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | March 28, 2021
Celebrity Lil Nas X caused a “flavor of the weekend” stir Friday, with the release of his music video “Montero (Call Me by Your Name),” a…