If there are no essential realities, there is no essential self either. Lifton makes it clear that he is referring to Christians. Surprise, it's Garth Brooks. He does believe, however, as many others do, that the Clinton 's are the quintessential postmoderns and excellent examples of shifting identities. In Plato's Cave , by Alvin Kernan .
Book depicts the life of an academic modernist in a postmodern world.
Commentary by Shelby Steele in the Wall Street Journal . A New Front in the Cultural War.