Culture

The Guts and the Gory

The Quentin Tarantino paradox.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

In Defense of Sports

Why let capitalists have all the fun?

Bhaskar Sunkara

Scroungers and Strivers

We are encouraged to sneer at poverty and hardship.

Jane Miller

Twilight of the Twi-Hards

The triumph of Team Katniss.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Catastrophiliacs

For some, the end of the world can't come too soon.

Sasha Lilley

Blinded by Thrift Store Irony

It makes very little sense to characterize irony, strictly speaking, as a matter of self-presentation.

Chris Lehmann

Fall of the Monarchs

Can we save North America’s most beloved butterfly?

Molly M. Ginty

Swiftian Logic

The narcissistic non-feminism of pop 'princess' Taylor Swift.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Lincoln: Better Off Undead

Spielberg's new Lincoln doesn't hold a candle to Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.

Louis Nayman

The Ice Man, Radioactive

Harold Simmons: the GOP’s $50 million man.

Greg Palast

Mothering Hypes

Jessica Valenti's new book debunks myths maternal.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

A Heathcliff We Haven’t Seen Before

Crafty casting turns Wuthering Heights into a love story haunted by the guilt and ghosts of slavery.

Michael Atkinson

After the Gold Rush

An artist turns a vacant house into a confrontational sculptural object.

Danielle McCullough

America’s Most Famous Living Poet

Poet and author Lawrence Ferlinghetti is as well-known for his activity off the page.

Peter C. Baker

The Battle for Black Studies

The forgotten African-American education-reform movement of the '60s and '70s.

Julianne Malveaux

Tears of Gaza

A new documentary explores the Gaza War from the point of view of children.

Michael Atkinson

Honey, We Shrunk the Parks

Reclaiming public space, inch by inch

Isaac Dalke

Occupy Gotham City

What the Dark Night Rises says about violence, morality and people's power

Slavoj Žižek