Tags: Popular Culture
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Conservatainment
The perennial right-wing plot to seize Hollywood from liberals
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Survivalism and the Market
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The Spook Racket
Magicians Todd Robbins and Teller take on the supposedly supernatural in their bloody off-Broadway sensation Play Dead
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But Is It Art?
A new study challenges the merits of modern art
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Sorry, Charley
Was John Steinbeck’s Travels With Charley a fraud?
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Glamorous Former Mrs. Fortensky and One-Time Maker of Bad Movies Liz Taylor Dies; Shatner Lives on!
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Malls of a Certain Age
The shopping mall: a look back
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Reality Bites
Debunking the myth of the lazy video gamer
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Reason Writers on Studio 360: Matt Welch Discusses How Dallas Affected the Cold War
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“When his music changed, Wayne Lo changed, and in time two people lay dead”
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Season of the Witch
Nicolas Cage, cursed again.
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Briefly Noted Books, Movies, Television, and More
Privacy chic, outlaw bikers, William Gibson's Zero History, an unwitting libertarian documentary, and TV Carnage
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Freedom to Fail
Jonathan Franzen ponders the glories and limits of American freedom.
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Frank Rich's Selective Nostalgianomics for Disneyland
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Penny Reign
America’s least valuable coin endures.
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Culture Shock
How joy buzzers, trick chairs, and other prank devices helped manufacture the post-industrial American male
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Marked for Life
Constitutionally protected tattoos
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This Ford's for You, Charlie Brown!
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The Well-Pilfered Clavier
Does copyright protection prevent creators from making stuff and selling it?
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Rap and Metal on Planet Islam
The booming voice of pent-up Middle Eastern anger