Culture

Murdering Meaning: The Verbicide of Contemporary America 9
- Culture
- January 16, 2024
In George Orwell’s 1984 are dichotomies now familiar to many Americans: “War Is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Ignorance Is Strength.” Inscribed on the outside of the white, pyramid-shaped Ministry of Truth, this is the motto of Oceania, a nation governed by “The Party.” The Party designed these slogans to obfuscate the meaning of words, thereby
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With Canada Arresting Journalists, Freedom of the Press Is More Vital Than Ever 2
- International, Culture, Featured, Politics
- January 16, 2024
It was once unthinkable for nations like Canada to arrest journalists for asking questions. Not anymore. That’s precisely what happened last week when David Menzies of conservative news outlet Rebel News was accosted and handcuffed by members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) for approaching Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland with a microphone in
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The ‘Greatest Show on Earth’0
- Culture
- January 16, 2024
In a winter of severe illness and death, without the aid of vaccines or even anti-biotics, and during a global pandemic of Spanish Flu, in the winter of 1918-1919, one of the richest men in the world was working to merge the two largest circus acts in the country into one enormous show. In March
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No, Ladies, We Cannot Have It All 4
- Culture, Family
- January 15, 2024
The phrase “having it all” came from the title of a 1982 book written by Helen Gurley Brown, then editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine. As Antoinette Lattouf, writing in The Guardian in early 2023, put it, this self-help book for women focused on “money, sex, diet, exercise, and appearance.” Notably, it made no mention of children
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Hollywood Baffled About 20 Percent Decline in Moviegoing Since 2019 7
- Culture, Entertainment, Featured
- January 15, 2024
The Hollywood Reporter recently published an article warning of an “existential crisis” in Tinseltown, as domestic box office sales remain more than 20 percent down compared with 2019, the last year before the great COVID-19 panic decimated moviegoing. The report read: One out of every five moviegoers has vanished since the pandemic, according to research
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A Missing Link: Our Border Catastrophe and the Failures of Corporate Media 3
- Culture, Featured, Politics
- January 12, 2024
Who, what, and where, by what helpe, and by whose, Why, how and when, doe many things disclose. — The Arte of Rhetorique, 1560 In “The Five Ws (and H) of Journalism,” Richard Nordquist notes that, in the above lines, English rhetorician Thomas Wilson devised the formula that later became standard in journalism. “Who,” “What,”
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