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Aug 21 2019
Perspectives Blog
Pop-Culture and Polarization: with Chloe Valdary
Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared on Better Angels.
Listen to Ciaran O’Connor and John Wood, Jr. break down the political and racial divides alongside special guest, Chloe Valdary. Chloe Valdary is a writer and the founder of the Theory of Enchantment, a curriculum which confronts polarization through the use of pop-culture. Chloe’s written work has appeared in The
Tara Parekh
Mar 28 2023
News
Satan is Getting Hot as Hell in American Pop Culture
"I am your nightmare," a possessed child tells Russell Crowe. "My nightmare is France winning the World Cup," the actor fires back in the April 14 release, The Pope's Exorcist. Opening the same day is Nefarious, a movie about a psychiatrist who must determine whether a man on death row who claims to be possessed by the devil is mentally fit enough to be executed.
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Newsweek
May 29 2023
News
We recap the Succession finale : Pop Culture Happy Hour
The series finale of HBO's Succession was truly a meal fit for a king. Backs were stabbed, alliances were realigned, and a new CEO of the media conglomerate Waystar Royco was crowned. How did the squabbling Roy siblings shake out in the fight to control their family's dynasty?
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NPR Fact Check
Jan 02 2021
Analysis
The Eight Pieces of Pop Culture That Defined the Trump Era
Certain cultural figures loom so large that they eventually serve as shorthand for the spirit of their times. There’s Michael Jackson, the personification of the smiley-face maximalism of Reagan’s 1980s; Lucille Ball and the aspirational domesticity of the Eisenhower era; even Homer Simpson, a postmodern joke of a patriarch befitting the irony-soaked Clinton 1990s.
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Politico
Aug 07 2023
News
‘Joy-sucking’ JK Rowling airbrushed from Seattle Museum of Pop Culture’s Harry Potter exhibit
The Seattle Museum of Pop Culture is scrubbing author JK Rowling from its Harry Potter exhibition because the transgender manager is offended by her. Exhibitions Project Manager Chris Moore just could not tolerate Rowling’s name being on the series that she wrote because of her gender-critical views. So, the manager kept the exhibit but airbrushed her off of it, according to the Daily Mail.
Bizpac Review
Apr 30 2014
News
The Rise of the Drone Master: Pop Culture Recasts Obama
In Marvel’s latest popcorn thriller, Captain America battles Hydra, a malevolent organization that has infiltrated the highest levels of the United States government. There are missile attacks, screeching car chases, enormous explosions, evil assassins, data-mining supercomputers and giant killer drones ready to obliterate millions of people. Its inspiration? New York Times (News)
Apr 29 2023
Opinion
Right-wing media used to shun pop culture. Now it’s obsessed with it.
Is the blockbuster success of The Super Mario Bros. Movie a victory for the “anti-woke”?
Well, according to right-wing media pundits like Charlie Kirk, Steven Crowder, and Alex Jones, it sure is, mostly because of how the film’s producers ignored public calls to cast Italian American voice actors in the cartoon roles of Mario and Luigi. Yet if you check the Washington Examiner, you can
Vox
Jan 20 2017
News
Barack Obama was the perfect pop culture president — for better or worse
Barack Obama fills whatever space you put him in.
Make him president, and he’ll seem presidential. Make him a law professor, and he’ll seem professorial. In some other universe, there’s probably some alternate version of Obama who became a novelist and is widely regarded as one of America’s foremost men of letters.
Vox
Mar 21 2013
News
Timeline: Gay Marriage In Law, Pop Culture And The Courts : NPR
A lot has changed in the decades since the Supreme Court dismissed a gay marriage case for lack of a substantial federal question in the 1970s. As the court once again weighs the issue of gay marriage heres a look at how the debate has touched American life.
NPR (Online News)