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The Six Second Carnival
Tristan Colaizzi Six seconds isn’t a lot of time. It takes about six seconds to tie your shoe or… Continue reading »
The Humans: Realism as an Alternative Entertainment
The glamorous world of the show business attracts a large audience, and for a good reason. The combined effort and… Continue reading »
A New Ending but an Old Story: Alternative History for Tarantino
Inglourious Basterds is Quentin Tarantino’s alternative to one of America’s more comfortable historical narratives. World War II’s morally simplistic… Continue reading »
Give This Guy a Grammy: Justification of a Modern Great Work
RJ Shamberger When your community does not accurately value anachronistic literature, you are conditioned to mimic its views and never… Continue reading »
Empire Looks Better in a Cape
The Dark Knight is “clearly one of the top conservative films ever made,” in the eyes of Breitbart, a news… Continue reading »
The Help: And Other Remedies for White Guilt
We so often assume that the best way to combat bigotry and ignorance is through awareness, that injustices of the… Continue reading »
Segregation, or Integration?
The idea of the white savior is simple: a white, typically privileged character helps the non-white characters in their struggle… Continue reading »
Give me your tired, your poor, Your Americanized masses
According to Rotten Tomatoes’ critical consensus, DreamWorks Animation’s 2015 animated film “Home” is “Colorful, silly,… Continue reading »
Chaos and Order: Post 9/11 America
Louis Althusser, a French philosopher writes, “All stories work by doing two things: First, they make vivid some real… Continue reading »
Human Perfection in the Midst of Cannibalism
The land was gullied and eroded and barren. The bones of dead creatures sprawled in the washes. Middens of anonymous… Continue reading »