An interesting review that explores the conservative attack on postmodernism in the academy launched under the name of relativism on the grounds that postmodernist discourses largely confined to the academy really do pose a serious threat to truth within the national culture at large. Behind this Anglo-American aversion to postmodernism we find an an attack on the entire Continental tradition of philosophy (a tradition that includes no less than Kant, Hegel, Fichte, Nietzsche, Husserl, and Heidegger) as being wilfully obscurantist. Most of this is rhetoric in defence of a fundamentalist Enlightenment tradtion.

We now have a tradition of 'postmodernism bashing' within what are called the culture wars in popular culture.