Think of just about any novel or movie—the Harry Potter series, Star Wars—and you’ll likely find good versus evil as the theme. Broadly, this theme is about how good and evil forces are, and always have been, at odds with each other. What’s an example of the theme of good vs...
Chapter 2: Society and the individualI should not think it an outrageous paradox if someone were to say that Grote’s History of Greece has quite as much to tell us today about the thought of the English philosophical radicals in the 1840s as about Athenian democracy in the fifth century B...
The earliest Gen Zers were born when the internet had just achieved widespread use. They’re called “digital natives”—the first generation to grow up with the internet as a part of daily life. The generation spans a wide range: the oldest Gen Zers have jobs and mortgages, while the ...
The 1970s were an interesting and sometimes thrilling time to be alive in America. Referred to as "The 'Me' Decade" by author Tom Wolfe, it heralded the movement away from '60s-style communitarianism toward individualism. Political scandal rocked this decade like no other and distrust of gover...
The culture war conceals a much more serious conflict, a much more fundamental threat to the life of the mind in the university. This essay indulges in a familiar critical gambit—ripping aside the veils of misunderstanding and penetrating the mists of misrepresen...
In this conversation we explore the ways in which culture war strategies aim to create new articulations of politics, culture and power. They do so as part of an ongoing effort to create narratives that construct and solidify political blocs and produce popular consent. We ...
Answer to: What is the legacy of the civil war? Did it accomplish its goal of eradicating slavery and bringing the nation back together? Why or why...
This article briefly summarizes the place of guns in British society and culture in the long eighteenth century. My approach is that of a historical anthropologist, examining the meaning of guns from the way they were used and depicted. I examine the way guns were used and understood in civili...
Hope and love are popular themes of literature and art in many human societies. The human physiology of love and hope is less well understood. This review presents evidence that the lack of love and/or hope delays growth disturbs development and maturati
has done as much as anyone to drum up interest for these wines. Wines from Etna were once a bigger industry until two world wars trampled Sicily and stunted the momentum. Slowly people returned. First from the lower towns, then from the other parts of Sicily, then Italy, then the world....