Fact Check!
...the fact-checkers I’ve ever known just didn't want to be responsible for inaccuracies. The people Gopnik cites were nevertheless onto something. A new culture of fact-checking is emerging in the...
The Science of Life as Art and Dissent
...include eighteenth-century aesthetic theory/philosophy, poetry, art history, media, and music. Currently Chris teaches for the Department of English and School of Communication at Loyola University Chicago. Contact: [email protected]; http://theboundingline.com/....
Why are we still talking about the “naughty nurse”?
...the 20th. Second, they are even more surprised that the history of nursing is much more complicated than one might imagine given depictions of nurses in popular culture. Images of...
No SWAT Zone
Resisting police militarization under Trump.
The Acquisitive Gaze
...of commodities. "What modern consumer culture produces," Agnew argues, "is not so much a way of being as a way of seeing — a way best characterized as visually acquisitive....
Growing Up TV
...cult of personality in pop culture: We truly have commodified our entertainers’ personal lives. And they’ve largely accepted it, because the privilege of a society’s attention is, I imagine, a...
Improving on Silence
...mere silence, but you have to come out and sing hosannas to the guy.) We must fight rape culture, even in its allegedly mild manifestations, we must be grieved with...
Swimming Class
...bounds of public decency. This raucous swimming culture was tolerated in natural waters, but city officials wanted none of it in the new artificial waters. They made rules against all...
We Call It a Dismantling Process
Three South Carolina inmates call attention to egregious conditions ahead of a nationwide prison strike
The Accidental Audience
...describe themselves as viewers and/or creators of culture in general? Prosumer seems the most accurate. For artists using social media like Tumblr, the question is not whether their involvement constitutes...
Zombie Novel
...state. Comeuppance for a flatlined culture.” Despite the lieutenant’s protestations, this righteous punishing nature is exactly God, he is Deuteronomy’s Jehovah, dealing out suffering and destruction for perceived infidelity. But...
Emergency Supplies
...galore). And together with Poetry Parnassus itself, it emphasized the idea of poetry, and culture more broadly, as diplomacy, as a kind of annex of international relations (peace on Earth;...
Urban Planting
...Bartle Frere, the governor of Bombay in the mid 1800s. Frere managed his city under the premise that “even Indians could be properly civilized through exposure to Western culture and...
Precarious Verse
...of speech but that of poetry, speech transfigured by communion with music, notes sounded in clear vowels. Poetry as speech transfigured — which is to say, speech elevated above merely...
Collector's Item
...Material Culture of Music," argues that this built-up sediment of unwanted culture demystifies collectibles in general: In the ways in which they accumulate, and in the fact that they sit...
Why We Love Sociopaths
...evening news. On a certain level, this trend may not seem like anything new. It seems as though most cultures have lionized ruthless individuals who make their own rules, even...