Summer used to be the most dire season in television, between the re-runs of television's most insipid offerings and the series of increasingly depressing and dire reality shows. Both are very much...
The battle for marriage equality in New York state has reached a crucial point. Also: A familiar one. The New York state assembly passed a bill legalizing gay marriage last Wednesday -- one of three...
It’s a truism, perhaps, to claim that sport functions as a release valve for social and economic pressures—but the Vancouver street riots that followed the conclusion of the Stanley Cup finals,...
Slavoj Žižek, Living in the End Times, updated paperback ed. (New York and London: Verso, 2011). The philosopher and cultural critic Slavoj Žižek has put reviewers of his latest book, Living in...
The Ibiza music summit was started by Pete Tong in 2008 because he wanted to create a “credible gathering of the leading talent from the world of dance and electronic music but also to extend the...
There is, perhaps, no politician more poetic than Sarah Palin. Yes, yes, I know: Contain your rage. What I mean by this is that Sarah Palin simply does not think in prose. Not for her, the...
This weekend, Meghan Cox Gurdon opined in The Wall Street Journal that the current generation of young adult fiction is 'too dark' for readers; 'So dark that kidnapping and pederasty and incest and...
Feminism FOR REAL, edited by Jessica Yee, Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives, 2011 Mainstream feminist activism and academics, even in the 21st century, have continued to be overly-invested in...
In May, the US networks traveled to New York City for the upfronts, a glitzy event where they attempt to convince advertisers, and the public, that they're still relevant. For advertisers, it's a...
When The Book of Mormon opened on Broadway in March, it became an immediate commercial and critical success. Since the show is sold out for some time and scalpers are commanding upwards of nine...
