For much of the 19th century, Ireland seemed “simply out of time with the modern world”, as Enda Delaney writes in his ...

When traveling in the Netherlands – with its canals, windmills, and tulip fields – it all seems so cute and sweet; you may find yourself exclaiming, “Everything’s just so…Dutch!” ...

One of the most useful concepts for understanding the world today is the late Marxist sociologist Zygmunt Bauman’s brainchild “liquid modernity.” I used it in The Benedict Option, and continue to find ...

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 ...

In the 1920s, Jacques Maritain was a rising star in the field of Catholic philosophy. Like most Catholics at the time, he had little love for the modern world. In a 1922 book, aptly titled Antimoderne ...

Bhyrappa brought an epic gaze to his writings and explored the conflict of values between tradition and modernity. He died on ...

Explore Frankfurt's skyline and historic architecture, showcasing its blend of tradition and innovation across 20 iconic ...

Writer-director Maggie Betts’s Novitiate is a quietly stunning historical drama about a group of nuns trying to keep the faith against an encroaching modern worldone which, by 1965, has breached even ...

But it actually works the hardest to explain the enduring influence of, and interest in, Art Deco. “There is an innocence to ...