Cultural Studies

"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors." — Simone Weil

The Privilege of Simplicity
Kate Daloz reviews Mark Sundeen’s “The Unsettlers: In Search of the Good Life in Today’s America.”
Kate DalozMar 19, 2017
- Cultural Studies
When Every Opinion is as Good as Any Other: On “The Death of Expertise”
“I think the people in this country have had enough of experts.”
Nikita Lalwani, Sam Winter-LevyMar 9, 2017
- Cultural Studies
- Politics
From Pacquiao to H-1B Visas: Global Asian Culture and America’s Shifting Identity
Corina Zappia on "Global Asian American Popular Cultures."
Corina ZappiaFeb 24, 2017
- Around the World
- Cultural Studies
Forgotten Accounts: Didion’s “South and West”
Didion's latest "South and West": irredeemably past, and yet speaking to the current impasse.
Colin DickeyFeb 19, 2017
- Cultural Studies
- Memoir & Essay
Living for the City: Jane Jacobs’s “Vital Little Plans”
Lyra Kilston on Jane Jacobs's "Vital Little Plans," the recently released volume of the writer's shorter work.
Lyra KilstonFeb 14, 2017
- Cultural Studies
- Politics
Dagoberto Gilb on the Right Way to be Crippled and Naked
Eileen Cronin talks to Dagoberto Gilb about his contribution to a new anthology by writers with disabilities, “The Right Way to be Crippled and Naked.”
Eileen CroninFeb 13, 2017
- Cultural Studies
- Fiction
There Has Never Been an America Without Muslims
Amir Hussain looks at the long history of Muslims in America.
Shabana MirFeb 13, 2017
A People’s History. A Nation’s Story. A Battle Station.
THE WHITE HOUSE has given the country whiplash, many citizens are discombobulated; the National Museum of African American History & Culture can help.
Cherie SaundersFeb 12, 2017
French Thought in a Nutshell: On Sudhir Hazareesingh’s “How the French Think”
Maddening and paradoxical we ignore France's extraordinary intellectual and cultural heritage at our peril, says Sudhir Hazareesingh.
Richard GolsanFeb 10, 2017
- Around the World
- Cultural Studies
Tenure and Diversity: An Interview with Patricia Matthew
Colin Dickey talks to Patricia Matthew about her new essay collection, "Written/Unwritten: Diversity and the Hidden Truths of Tenure."
Colin DickeyFeb 8, 2017
- Cultural Studies
Football Nation: The NFL Brand in the Year of Kaepernick
On how the NFL achieved "corporate transcendence" and what the era of Kapernick means for it.
Aaron DeRosaFeb 4, 2017
Goodbye, Eastern Europe!
Jacob Mikanowski shares a few lessons about a vanishing Eastern Europe.
Jacob MikanowskiJan 27, 2017