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Indonesia: Pawn or Player?
https://www.goodfreephotos.com/Free-Stock-Photos/final10.jpg.php Indonesia’s history has been a long and twisted one. The country’s...
Riley Revilla
Apr 2, 2024


Unveiling Colonial Narratives: An In-Depth Analysis of Dune
(There are spoilers included) Paul Atreides, raising a sword over the Fremen Viewers of the film Dune: Part Two were met with...
Jade Tran
Apr 2, 2024


It’s So Joever.
Joe Biden walks off the campaign stage during the 2020 election (Olson/Getty) Joe Biden will lose in 2024. The economic signs are clear....
Nick Woods
Feb 27, 2024


Don’t Panic, but We are Sleepwalking Toward a Nightmare
A suggestive image of Trump probably raising his hand at a rally (Wise/Getty) America is hanging on to democracy. Unlike in the past, the...
Nick Woods
Feb 27, 2024


The Undying Dream of Freedom: How Black America Once Imagined Reconstruction in Savannah
Aftermath of Sherman’s Campaign in Atlanta, Library of Congress, Hosted digitally by Wikimedia Commons Atlanta was a smoldering ruin....
Gavin Neubauer
Feb 27, 2024


The War to Make Investing Worse for Everyone
A wind farm in Texas What’s “Satan’s plan” this time? Gay marriage? School librarians? Dungeons and Dragons? Proctor and Gamble? The...
Logan Delavan-Hoover
Feb 27, 2024


The Napoleon of Notting Hill: The Little Guy’s Fight for Home and Hearth
A painting depicting the “Common Man” When we study history, we often hear of great wars between rival cities: Athens against Sparta,...
Christian Burke
Feb 27, 2024


Self-Made: What It Means to Retell a Classic Like ‘The Great Gatsby’
Cover of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Next year marks the hundredth anniversary of the publishing of The Great Gatsby, a...
Willow Whitaker
Feb 27, 2024


The Art of Traveling: A Week in Barcelona
Photo Taken By Kai Bradner Having access to the necessary resources to travel is a privilege that many around the world can only hope to...
Kai Bradner
Feb 27, 2024


2093 and Beyond: Yeat’s Newest Auditory Trek
@xenothaman on Instagram The year is 2093, dystopia is upon us, and the chief political leader—in uber-corporate fashion-–dons the title...
Aadit Manyem
Feb 27, 2024


Coal Mines Kill Appalachia
Film still from Harlan County, USA (1976, dir. Barbara Kopple) If you listen to politicians like Joe Manchin of West Virginia, you might...
Eirian Gail
Feb 26, 2024


…And Justice for All: Amplifying Change in Middle Eastern Metal
Metallica in Riyadh 12/14 courtesy of Brett Murray Metallica made history as the second international metal band to play in Saudi Arabia...
Jake Freeman
Dec 28, 2023


Just Ken: Barbie and the celebration of masculinity
(Ryan Gosling’s Ken, credit: Elle) Greta Gerwig’s Barbie was the long-awaited blockbuster film of 2023. Starring Margot Robbie as our...
Archana Sathiyamoorthy
Dec 28, 2023


“The Devil’s Been Down in Georgia: A History of the Southern Gothic”
American Novelist Toni Morrison: https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/going-to-the-movies-with-toni-morrison The American South...
Jess Reed
Dec 28, 2023


The Desire to be Sad: The Prevalence of the “Trauma Plot”
Image source: oliSUNvia on youtube It seems like every book, TV show, and movie these days is driven by a tragic backstory. What happened...
Megan Mulligan
Dec 28, 2023


Stephen King’s Misery and the Feminine Monster
(Still from the 1990 film adaptation of Misery) Via Talk Film Society If the traditional dynamic of scary man versus pretty girl doesn’t...
Katie Gough
Dec 28, 2023


Empathy, Miscarriages, and Middlemarch
Cover of Middlemarch by George Eliot Middlemarch by George Eliot is subtitled A Study on Provincial Life and that is exactly what it is....
Naomi Nicholas
Dec 28, 2023


El Pacto del Olvido: The Spanish Repression of Memory
Adolfo Suárez swears in as el Presidente del Gobierno in 1976. King Juan Carlos (center) watches on, while Francoist officials surround...
Alex Horn
Dec 28, 2023


Highway Havoc: How the US Highway System Connects The Country but Divides The People
Image of a US highway On a warm summer morning in 1919, 79 U.S. Army vehicles left Washington D.C. and headed west towards San Francisco....
Alex Obolensky
Dec 28, 2023


Haiti and the Case for Reparations
Image depicting plantations burning during the first ever successful slave revolt. In 1803, modern-day Haiti completed the unimaginable:...
Hazel Montgomery-Walsh
Dec 28, 2023
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