Do post-9/11 realities signal the death of Po-Mo? “No matter which side one takes in these post 9/11 conflicts — which could make the culture wars of the 1980s and ’90s look like child’s play — the rantings of late 20th-century postmodern relativists seem as quaint and distant today as the prattlings of Victorian sentimentalists.

The absence of a seductive replacement for postmodernism has left public intellectuals — can we use that word in a daily newspaper these days without smirking? — with a renewed respect and affection for the paramount movement of the 20th century: modernism.” —Statesman