There, fixed it. :)
You could also have said the contemporary era and been accurate. I felt I had to step in to defend modernity from such slanders even though I know you did not intend to do so.
What we call modernity was the age wherein man made great advances, improving his lot by coming to understand all that his Creator slowly revealed to him.
Postmodernists think it is time we put that aside. They mean for us to get beyond this quaint notion that modernity is good for us. "Progressives" hide behind postmodernist cant as they deliberately repress us all. They used to do it incrementally; now we are witnessing a full court press.
Modernity is a good thing. Contemporary statists with their postmodernist agenda are something else: fundamentally anti-human.
With all this talk about modernism and post-modernism, I think it would be a good idea to bring up Leo Strauss, who despised modernism (though not all modern philosophers) and placed the foundation of natural rights back in the classical era.
Then again, one of his students was at the forefront of observing the Declaration as a founding document. Still, I bet Strauss at least was well aware of the difference between natural and positive law, which you two seem to be overlooking.