Brokeback Mountain might be considered one of those seminal films that breaks through an American taboo, not because it presents male homosexuality in a feature film with “name” lead actors, but…
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POPULAR CULTURE & SOCIAL LIFE
I drive a BMW. It’s the best damn car I ever owned. [1] I bought it because it combines Italian design and German engineering; not because of the time when I…
In America around this time it’s “No. 1 Season.” The Golden Globes, the Grammys, the Miss America Pageant, the Super Bowl, the Academy Awards, the Winter Olympics, and the…
George Washington cut down a cherry tree and when confronted about it could not lie. Our current George, the brush-cutting president can’t seem to tell the truth. Whether he’s…
Queer Studies? QUEER Studies? I guess it was only a matter of time. DePaul University of Chicago, the largest Catholic University in America, is launching a minor…
When news began to flow out of Australia about Lebanese immigrants being attacked by gangs of “whites” on Sydney’s beaches I was reminded of what one of former colleagues on…
We are still in the Jurassic of brain research, at least compared with what we know about the rest of our physiology, of which there is also a great deal…
Remember Bea Arthur? She was the wife in a successful sit-com of several years ago who was the 1970s representation of feminism on television. She was sort of…
I have often wondered what the role is of “style” in human experience. Style really seems unnecessary. At first it appears to derive from an impulse to be different ,…
Elections, like wars, are complex events in which it is difficult to assign specific causality to outcomes. In a close election amidst a “culture war” that difficulty is amplified…