In fairness to the term ‘critical thinking’, it has been used often in British philosophy departments to refer to something akin to basic epistemology and logic. I have come to conclude, however, that the situation with “postmodernism” is much more severe in the States than in Europe (at least, in philosophy).

With this qualification in mind, though, I agree wholeheartedly with the conclusions you have drawn against the postmodern ‘group’ (I would hardly want to dignify them with the characterisation as a tradition). Realistically, though, it is a dying line of aberrant thought and I cannot imagine the current generation of students absorbing and then disseminating it with as much vigour as those lost souls that currently teach them.