American Dream
Sufjan Stevens’ Season of Hopelessness
“Let the Record Show What I Couldn’t Quite Confess / For by Living for Myself I Was Living for Unrest.”
On TV: The Boardwalk Empire Series Finale and the Warning Label on the Side Panel of the American Dream
The fifth and final season of HBO’s Boardwalk Empire concluded last week. It ends having […]
Grotesque Rebellion: The Legacy of the American Muscle Car
And of course many of us invest our egos in our vehicle–whether driving ovate maxivans, […]
Better Off Now Than Ever? A History of Happiness
In a recent New Republic article entitled Happyism: the Creepy New Economics of Pleasure, economist […]
Slumdog Millionaire and American Self-Reliance
In last Saturday’s New York Times, Anand Giridharadas wrote an interesting article about Slumdog Millionaire […]
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