Column: Despite misery, cultural memory worth respecting
By Del Maticic | Nov. 13, 2014Memorializing a single narrative reduces lived complexity and imposes a deceptive linearity the readiest side effect of which is a sense of national exclusivism.
Memorializing a single narrative reduces lived complexity and imposes a deceptive linearity the readiest side effect of which is a sense of national exclusivism.
This past week President Barack Obama spoke out regarding the issue of net neutrality, the idea that Internet service providers should not discriminate data on the web by user, platform, site, content, and so on.
It’s safe to say that today’s world is completely different than the one the one our grandparents, or even our parents, were raised in.
Good books set the right parts of the brain on fire.
When you hear the word "rape," where does your mind go? Does it go to "Law and Order: SVU" marathons with women jogging through central park with the fog creeping around the bushes, hiding from their soon-to-be attackers?
Very recently, I’ve begun to badger my friends about reading poetry. I feel like I deserve the puzzled looks I get in response.
My first experience with the southern US was when I stepped foot on campus at USC for my senior year college visit.
We in America would be hard-pressed to describe our funerary mourning practicing as erotic, but this is surprisingly more common than you might imagine.
The former USC running back, who broke numerous records as a college athlete including most touchdowns, was faced with a choice no one wants to think about: what happens after?
Two viewpoints writers debate whether out-of-state students should prioritize South Carolina or hometown politics.
Russia is worth looking at right now for a number of reasons, not least of which is the sheer spectacle of watching an entire culture being slowly broken apart by a maniac with iron eyes.
It’s always a great day to be an American, but nothing beats being an American on Election Day.
When a court case is named, the prosecution or plaintiff is named first and the defense is named second.
Change happens on every level. It doesn’t come from one party, person or vote — the logic comes from much more than that.
It’s hard to overstate exactly how dominant Bumgarner was over this past month, but it needs to be said how truly heroic his performance was.
The next time elections come around, the political world will know that your vote is up for grabs, and that your complaints and ideas are worth listening to.