Category Archive: Popular culture

Running the Jewels in a Government Town: Killer Mike and El-P in the Nation’s Capital

In a city of student government types, D.C.’s general population seems awash in people who actually believed high […]

Swimming in Dysfunction?: McCarren and the Long Perspective on Municipal Pools

This is the third installment of our Summer 2013 pool series: Part I – A Dive into the […]

Taking Chances on Chicago’s South Side: Acid Rap and Summer 2013

Good God this summer’s been hot! Anyone living in the Midwest, Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, or Southeast knows the debilitating […]

Waters of Community, Waters of Hostility: The Messy History of Urban America and the Municipal Pool

[Editor’s Note: Just in time for summer heat waves, this is the first in a series of posts […]

Modern Family: Mr. Mom and Fatherhood in the 21st Century

“My brain is like oatmeal,” jobless auto worker Jack Butler (Michael Keaton) tells his newly employed wife Caroline […]

Fracturing Catholics: Big Idea Books, Daniel Rodgers, and the Fragmenting Catholic Church

Rooney (Kevin Dillon): [Standing in line for confession] Hey, Williams, you got your list? Williams (Stephen Geoffreys): Oh, […]

Teenage Wasteland: Moral Panic and Adolescent Sexuality in the Age of Steubenville

Yeah, she could drag me over the rainbow, send me away Down by the river I shot my […]

Into Darkness Iron Man!: Drone Strikes and Terrorism in the Post-9/11 Era

[Editor’s note: For those of you who have seen neither Iron Man 3 or Star Trek: Into Darkness, […]