Recent Culture Features

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Wednesday, February 7 2007

America’s Pony

By Phoebe Kate Foster

Despite a short career in a dying sport, Barbaro brought something special to a nation suffering a widespread poverty of hope and deficit of inspiration.

Sunday, February 4 2007

Don’t Mess With Texas:  The Lone Star State Loses Its Greatest Spitfire

By Terry Sawyer

Molly Ivins was one of the world's most gifted bar stool philosophers, someone who effortlessly segued into the world of ideas from the sure-footed ground of details.

Thursday, February 1 2007

Twilight of the Idols

By Imran Siddiquee

When Nietzsche conceived of the superman, he didn't have a musclebound alien in red tights in mind. Rather, the hero of Superman Returns is an affront to human potential.

Monday, January 29 2007

An Atomic Threat Made in America

By Sam Roe

Beyond the fear of North Korea's or Iran's nuclear capabilities looms a more far-reaching threat: the vast amount of nuclear bomb-grade material scattered across the globe. And it wasn't Kim Jong Il or the ayatollahs of Iran who put it there. America did.

Friday, January 26 2007

The Radical Christian Right Is Built on Suburban Despair

By Chris Hedges

Millions of Americans live trapped in soulless exurbs which lack any kind of community, leaving them feeling isolated and vulnerable. Without alternatives for their social despair, they flock to demagogues promising revenge and a mythical utopia.

Tuesday, January 23 2007

The Second Looting of New Orleans

By Jordan Flaherty

The city is an international symbol of neglect and racism. But the federal government isn't the only one to blame.

Wednesday, January 17 2007

The Birth of an Idea: Instant Nation

By Chadwick Jenkins

The history of the United States is essentially the history of an idea; the idea that all men are created equal, and its gradual manifestation in actuality with all of its contradictions and hypocrisies.

Tuesday, January 16 2007

Barbra Streisand: Lessons from a Lesbian Icon

By Marci Windsheimer

The existence of gay male fans of Barbra is well documented and highly visible, but in the lesbian community, our fandom is just as long lived, though not as well known.

Sunday, January 7 2007

Sex, Hope and Rock and Roll: A Conversation with Ellen Willis

By Chris O'Connell

Chris O'Connell remembers a very personal and poignant conversation with political essayist, journalist, and rock critic Ellen Willis.

Friday, December 8 2006

A Freight Train of Hate

By Katherine Goktepe

Michael Richards's racist outburst made him a scapegoat, but not in the way those who regard him as the "real victim" think.

Thursday, November 2 2006

Kings Dominion

By Paul Caine

Though they aspire to be as safe as suburbia, amusement parks provide pleasure beyond class consciousness.

Thursday, October 5 2006

Bombay Dreaming and the Class Configurations of Home: A Review and Interview

By Rahul Gairola

The first South Asian musical to be produced in English -- a musical project that germinated from an idea shared between Andrew Lloyd Webber and Shekhar Kapur --Bombay Dreams offers a vibrant and energetic panorama of the Indian popular cinema world, as well as an important critique of corporate capitalism.

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