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Chip Baskets at the End of Time
Most people tend to agree that representation in popular culture is an important key to social equity.
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Rear Window Ethics
On Lonely Hearts and Murdered Wives
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The Assassination of Detlev Rohwedder: Towards a Theory of Martyrdom
We in the West regard the Fall of the Berlin Wall as the synecdochal end of an era: a death knell for the ill-conceived dream of collectivization, and a…
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St. Joe the Exotic: The Early Christian Roots of the Holy and the Vulgar
The release of Tiger King fortuitously corresponded with the first wave of the coronavirus lockdown; millions of Americans found themselves trapped…
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Charlie Brown Underground
Charles Schulz's 1965 Charlie Brown Christmas special is an undeniable holiday classic, one of the few that I dust off and re-watch every mid-December.
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No Exit: Surveillance Capitalism at the Juncture of Existentialist Thought
Among the oft-misquoted lines in western literature, Sartre's L'enfer, c'est les autres (Hell is other people) is probably the foremost.
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The Stranger Resurfacing: Albert Camus on the Trial of Amanda Knox
"The trial of Amanda Knox:" for the American observer, this phrase may conjure a sequence of carnivalesque images: the series of procedural errors that…
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