...perhaps forgive Quiggin this last sin, though, since, quite frankly, what you and I think matters considerably less than what economists teach and practice. As Keynes himself wrote in the...
...safe, somehow removed. The addictive quality of the National’s music is in its flippant, wallowing, self-conscious sadness. Even their songs about love and comfort and pleasant things take place in...
...populist who rendered the ordinary person's feelings and aspirations in easily digested metaphors while the culture snobs sneered. But if you listen to a lot of his music or read...
...of the most instantly recognizable pop culture insignias; it’s been featured on everything from knock-off Ugg Boots and thong underwear to diaper bags. In fact, it is a cultural cliché....
...yet the archival functionality of platforms feels like an empty promise. In the culture of surveillance, evidence collection is never-ending, a shadow to every activity. These daily interactions with (and...
...always been in my experience closer to the language used to describe music: Things are harsh, ethereal, fuzzy, stark, amplified, severe, ringing. Out of context, if you missed the first...
...her children as property, she succeeds in killing her daughter Mary. After which she is recaptured, held, tried, and put on the Henry Lewis, that ship that will return her...
...of African music this past week. We're honored to share one of these in the A/V section here. All text comes from Cole's tweets. To improve your Friday immeasurably, here's...
...is a musical, or at least there is music playing. There are people dancing. They don't sing so maybe that means it is not a musical. That moon is cut...
Bryant, who was named the 2015 Whistleblower of the Year by the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms, is an air force veteran. His memoir originally appeared in Life in the Age of Drone Warfare, which will be published next month by Duke University Press. The essay collection was edited by Lisa Parks and
...like successful forgers are closer to these fantastic stereotypes than other kinds of art criminals. That’s absolutely right, and I teach forgery differently than other categories of art crime. Forgergery...
...poverty, a culture that glorifies whiteness and vilifies blackness in the media, hospitals and schools that are as separate and unequal as ever, pollution that afflicts black communities far more...
...culture—television evolved the particular kinds of narrative genres that it did by reference to the developing new forms of “normal” social life, a form of social life in which father...