When Americans said no to self-sacrifice, and a President.
Category Archive: American Studies
Goldberger’s book unintentionally reveals that baseball is a representation of America — in its everyday realities of discrimination, exclusion, and inequality.
The very effort to go to the moon feels like something impossible accomplished by an ancient civilization, like the statues on Easter Island or the Egyptian pyramids.
Politics, like life in general, swings this way and that, but it’s never a simple pendulum.
If the Oscars are any indication, Americans love war, stupidity, royalty, and bestiality.
Jordan Peele’s new film looks at the terror of white supremacy and the savagery of capitalism from an equally terrifying angle.
In the 1955 manifesto, Discourse on Colonialism, Aimé Césaire argues that a “civilization that chooses to close its […]
Elon Musk’s public image has been in flux all summer. Though Tesla’s founder has been hailed as a […]