So You've Been Publicly Shamed? inquires as to the effects and aftereffects of Twitter shamings and internet pile-ons. Jon Ronson worries after the ways in which this bleeds into reality, but I am less certain that the people who should, ever actually feel shame.
Sectors within the U.S. government and media seem desperate for the lab leak theory of COVID origins to be true, regardless of how little evidence presents itself in their favor. Have we always been living in 2003? Hubris provides my context here.
The politics of regression have taken over the Republican Party entirely. From COVID to labor deregulation it is clear where the Republican Party wants us to go. Their Jim Crow, Gilded Era politics have been beaten before.
It Came From Something Awful attempts to answer the question: whence the alt-right and the political violence of 2017? The answer comes from the depths of the internet counter-culture and the particular tendency of screens to send users into a recursive loop: capital benefits and isolates.
Since the end of Game of Thrones, the fan community for the book series has maintained itself through YouTube and meme accounts, fighting back against the lackluster end of the show.
Fantasy is normally the purview of the past, but Terry Pratchett's Monstrous Regiment and Going Postal both invoke a positive and possible future.
The Carthaginian North is a hypothetical explanation for issues within the etymology and origin of the Proto-Germanic language; however, the story it tells never completely congeals.
In a wave of transphobic legislation in state senates, Arkansas represents a case study in the ALEC astroturfing behind the growth of fascism in America.
With the recent ruling in Robinson v. Ardoin, the Supreme Court has continued its blatant Republican power grab.
In the Heart of the Sea could have been a more interesting adaptation of Wreck of the Whaleship Essex, that's it, that's the article.
Stephen Kotkin's "Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as Civilization" explores early Soviet rule in the planned city of Magnitogorsk. Read on to learn more.