Recent Columns

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Wednesday, July 16 2003

No Question: The Media Is Right

By David Sirota

Why are these and countless other distortions swallowed by the media and fed to the American public without question?

(more Mixed Messages)

Crouching Synagogue, Hidden Witness

By Robyn Sassen

I question the value of my presence there, as a white woman amongst young black people who historically shouldn't want to be near me or my kind.

(more Just Another Day in Africa)

Wednesday, July 9 2003

Justice, Peace, and Memory—From East Europe to Iraq

By Robert R. Thompson

Politics and Culture/East and West -- Justice, Peace, and Memory - From East Europe to Iraq -- This painfully constructed edifice of rights is honored more in the breach than in the observance.

(more Politics and Culture/East and West)

Skiffle and the English “Elvis”

By Simon Warner

Anglo Visions -- Skiffle and the English 'Elvis' -- Suffice it to say that without Donegan's 'Rock Island Line', it is highly unlikely that the greatest band of all would ever have emerged.

(more Anglo Visions)

Wednesday, July 2 2003

Play for Today

By Colin Harvey

The question as to whether games are stories or stories are games is important, because it goes to the root of what video games have been, are, and are going to be . . .

(more Trivial Pursuit)

Just War or a Just War

By Sam Vaknin

What is legal is not always moral and what is legitimate is not invariably legal.

(more Artificial Intelligence)

Thursday, June 26 2003

The Animatrix and Anime’s Burgeoning Influence

By Brian Ruh

While the slogan of anime distributor Central Park Media of 'World peace through shared popular culture' is probably overly optimistic, collaborations on films such as 'The Animatrix' are indicative of a maturation of both animation itself and the general public's perceptions of such a medium.

(more From Here to Shinjuku)

From the Harvest Festival to HOVA—Bhangra Meets Hip-Hop

By Priya Lal

Bhangra enters the American popular consciousness . . . and a new hip-hop anthem is born.

(more Bollywood from Beyond)

Wednesday, June 18 2003

White Like Me

By Robyn Sassen

Murray refuses to pussyfoot around politically correct representation of ethnic diversity.

(more Just Another Day in Africa)

Right and Wrongs: The Return of the Anti-Nazi League

By Simon Warner

This conjunction, a Prime Minister with a falling rating and a spineless Parliamentary opposition, has again wedged the door ajar for the British National Party, the current incarnation of the National Front.

(more Anglo Visions)

Wednesday, June 4 2003

Remembering the Rat Pack: When “Cool” Was King

By Tara Taghizadeh

Global Graffiti -- Remembering the Rat Pack: When 'Cool' Was King -- We're amid a full-force revival of that 'make me a Martini and put on a Sinatra record' era of the Rat Pack years.

(more Global Graffiti)

The Ecology of Environmentalism

By Sam Vaknin

Arguably, bacteria and insects exert on Nature far more influence with farther reaching consequences than Man has ever done.

(more Artificial Intelligence)

Wednesday, May 28 2003

Daydreams While Balancing Atop a Narrow Fence

By Robyn Sassen

If my Jewish identity was more easily recognisable, and I took a slightly faulty step in social protocols, would I also be fleeing on shot-out tires?

(more Just Another Day in Africa)

When a kiss is not just a kiss.

By Stephen Tropiano

What's different from the kisses that take place between these three couples versus the highly publicized same-sex kisses in the 1990s . . . is the two people kissing now are very much in love.

(more The Prime Time Closet)

Spy-day Night at the Fights

By tjmHolden

So much of Japanese TV these days appears predicated on this harsh formula: spying, confrontation, setting up and exposing the cads, giving them their due, then watching them twist and turn in the turbulent wind.

(more ReDotPop)

Wednesday, May 14 2003

Seeing the War from Abroad

By Robert R. Thompson

No one can sit in this conference and be unaware of the U.N's guiding principle: the need for peaceful settlement of global conflicts.

(more Politics and Culture/East and West)

Hitler and the Invention of the West

By Sam Vaknin

The idea of the West . . . is merely the last phase and manifestation of the clash of titans between Germany on the one hand, and Russia on the other.

(more Artificial Intelligence)

Wednesday, May 7 2003

Canon Fodder?

By Simon Warner

You can count your life not through T.S. Eliot's coffee spoons, but through crucial sax solos and critical Scorcese sequences.

(more Anglo Visions)

Thursday, May 1 2003

Tupac’s Book Shelf

By Mark Anthony Neal

Price drew on his own training as a Gospel musician and ethnomusicologist to examine Tupac's spiritual development, suggesting that the late artist had surpassed the legacies of John Coltrane and Mahalia Jackson as spiritual figures within the tradition of black music.

(more Critical Noire)

Wednesday, April 23 2003

Akihabara Dreams and the New Otaku

By Brian Ruh

(Akihabara) . . . is a place where a wide range of one's emotional needs can be handled through technology and media.

(more From Here to Shinjuku)

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