Category / Blogs / Culture Critique

    Loading posts...
  • Lucrative Perks: The Man Repeller on Eating Disorders

    Leandra Medine is an icon. The 27 year old of Turkish and Iranian descent describes her self-aware blog, Man Repeller, as “a humorous website for serious fashion.” Its accolades stand up to the description – combining Medine’s signature cheeky humor with the blog’s incredible clout when it comes to educating the fashionably elite. In 2012 Medine added recognition as…

  • Modi and the Politics of Yoga

    Narendra Modi’s new policies as India’s prime minister revolve around economics, social change, and…yoga?   Modi has been trying to reclaim yoga as an Indian art form and have it officially recognized as being rooted in Hindu tradition. While it is generally accepted that yoga originated in India, this movement, according to the new Minister…

  • New Life Evangelistic Center v. St. Louis

    “The poor man and the creditor have met one another. The Lord is the enlightener of them both.” Proverbs 29:13   [dropcap style=”normal or inverse or boxed”]S[/dropcap]t. Louis has been at the center of justice issues in the United States since Augusrt 9, 2014 – the shooting of 18 year old Michael Brown. The conversation…

  • The Twitter Round-Up: Brian Williamsing, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Jetpacks

    Twitter as a medium is, in some ways, a miracle. It is, after all, the reason we get to ask the question “Were politicians, reporters and people this incomprehensibly incapable of grasping reality before the Internet, or is it a new fad to be crazy?” I’m afraid that I’m not here to answer that question (though…

  • The (Libertarian) Case for Reparations

    In his piece “The Case for Reparations,” Ta-Nehisi Coates details the ways in which white supremacy and racism have had a lasting impact on black communities. As the title of the article suggests, Coates argues that the best way to right the terrible wrongs that have been done to African-Americans is through reparations. While no…

  • The Sidewalks Kept Me Off the Streets

    We’ve seen it before. We might even have one hanging in our closet or resting in our drawer. The omnipresent Tupac, the illustrious Biggie, peering down on us through well-circulated images of their countenances, plastered on dorm walls and printed on T-shirts. Any college student can recognize these ubiquitous images, state a couple sentences’ background…

  • The Rise and Fall of Hong Kong Protest Art

    As the media uproar surrounding the Hong Kong protests has died down, what’s actually happened in China? Some people interpret the quietness as a sign that Xi Jinping has won the fight to suppress the pro democratic movement in Hong Kong, as the 2017 elections are still set to only feature candidates pre-selected by Beijing. …