Category: Pop Culture
Love it or hate it, twee is back. It’s the subject of innumerable think pieces, but the subculture’s radical roots in feminism, punk, and the fight against Margaret Thatcher often go unnoticed

Propaganda is most impactful when people don’t think it’s propaganda, and most decisive when it’s censorship you never knew happened
A film about a comet hurtling towards Earth and no one is doing anything about it? Sounds exactly like the climate crisis

The quieter focus of the film The Drummer is the lasting physical and psychological impact of military service, under post 9/11 conditions
We may search for blame, but blame — scapegoating — is never a solution, just further homage to the myth of redemptive violence

The Industrial Workers of the World — the shock troops of the early-20th-century labor movement — virtually invented the protest song for the modern age
How Should Revolutionaries respond to Judas and the Black Messiah?
Judas and the Black Messiah performs a valuable service, traveling back in time to present an extremely entertaining, compelling, vivid dramatization of the Black Panthers
Yes, a bailout is in order, but the situation is far more complicated than that
The insidious role of unethical advertising in reality TV – and in the offscreen careers of its stars