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Category: <span>Culture</span>

Category: Culture

Hillbilly Effigy: Whitewashing Poverty

Hillbilly Effigy: Whitewashing Poverty

By Chris Ladd December 11, 2020 December 12, 2020

Hillbilly Elegy is as artistically interesting as an after school special, introducing the audience to the virtues of doing your homework and saying “no” to drugs.

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Traveling at Home: A Lockdown Viewing Tour

Traveling at Home: A Lockdown Viewing Tour

By Chris Ladd April 11, 2020 April 11, 2020

If you’re through binging Tiger King, consider branching out into obscure corners of the streaming world.

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The Future We Lost

The Future We Lost

By Chris Ladd March 18, 2019 March 18, 2019

We lost our chance to build the future. Those opportunities don’t come along every day, and we may not see another.

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Autumn in Griftopia

Autumn in Griftopia

By Chris Ladd December 21, 2018 December 22, 2018

There is a sick symmetry to Kolfage’s scam. Fourteen years ago he was literally blown to pieces in a war that was, itself, a trillion-dollar con.

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Max Boot Upgrades His Network

By Chris Ladd December 12, 2018 December 12, 2018

In time, we’ll likely recognize malformed social networks as a problem on par with income inequality or rural poverty. Ironically, the same social media technologies that helped create this problem probably hold our most promising solutions.

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What It Means to ‘Believe Women’: The Kavanaugh Choice

What It Means to ‘Believe Women’: The Kavanaugh Choice

By Chris Ladd September 29, 2018 September 29, 2018

Believing women does not mean setting aside critical thought. It means confronting our own inconvenience.

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Joseph Campbell on Netflix

By Chris Ladd July 15, 2018 July 15, 2018

Forty years ago, PBS released a series of Bill Moyers’ conversations with professor Joseph Campbell, who is famous research on mythology. Netflix has commemorated this anniversary by making the series available on their streaming service.

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What It Means To Be An American

By Chris Ladd July 2, 2018 July 4, 2018

Our greatest dreams are our most dangerous, our most volatile. No one said the dream would be cheap.

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Boredom, a Eulogy

By Chris Ladd May 23, 2018 May 23, 2018

Boredom has disappeared from our lives and with it, the ingenuity it spawned.

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Bribery Is An American Tradition

By Chris Ladd May 15, 2018 May 15, 2018

Our government is for sale, but don’t blame Donald Trump. His clumsy cast of cartoon Mafiosi have merely taken the finesse out of the game, placing the oily guts of the machine out in the daylight.

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