Post of the Week
Check out Mark Tapson’s post about how technology draws his child away from herself, while the moon and stars in the children’s classic book Goodnight Moon bring her home.
View ArticleWhat Is Sexy and What Is Crude?
In response to Ashley McGuire’s post about Beyoncé’s performance at the Super Bowl and the question of whether traditionally minded women can be sexy: of course they can. Traditional women can be, and...
View ArticleJennifer Lawrence: From Cute to Vulgar
by Ashley E. McGuire Jennifer Lawrence, Hollywood’s new “It girl,” appears to have charmed the world with her post-Oscar press conference, now going viral on Facebook. I can’t for the life of me...
View ArticleCould Today’s “American Girl” Be Any Blander?
Have you read any of the American Girl books? I just finished the 2013 Girl of the Year installment about a 4th-grader named Saige and, as my first introduction into the juggernaut that is the American...
View ArticleThou Shalt Not Work From Home
by Ryan Duffy A fascinating thing occurred last week in the ever changing world of work. The CEO of Yahoo! ordered that working from home was no longer an option for the company’s employees. Citing a...
View ArticleWhy Have Kids? They Make Life Meaningful
by Mark Tapson No sooner had I cleaned my seven-week-old daughter’s poop off my lap the other day (don’t ask) than my two-year-old tried and failed to empty a jug of milk into a teacup she had perched...
View ArticleTupac Shakur & Helping Men Become Men
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfXwmDGJAB8] I recently came across an old song by Tupac Shakur, “Keep Ya Head Up.” It was another reminder of a phenomenon that has become part of our culture...
View ArticleThe Benefits of Optimism
Have you seen or read Silver Linings Playbook and/or Life of Pi? If you haven’t, I couldn’t recommend them more. My latest piece was actually inspired by these two phenomenal books/movies. In the...
View ArticleNBC’s Parenthood’s Look at Teen Pregnancy Disappointing
by Asma Uddin An avid fan of the NBC drama, Parenthood, one thing I have come to expect of it is—quite naturally—its celebration of parenthood. It always satisfies me with its contemplative treatment...
View ArticleThere’s More to Life Than Being Successful
Listening to the Acculturated podcast with Rod Dreher, which we published yesterday, made me wonder about some of the cultural differences between the north and the south in this country. In an essay...
View ArticleUnder Construction
We’re launching a new look at Acculturated today with even better functionality. You might experience some quirks today as we migrate over to this new site. If you can’t access the full site for any...
View ArticleIs Hollywood’s Bias Conservative?
Elias Isquith in The Atlantic no doubt raised a few eyebrows with his recent article with the counterintuitive title, “Hollywood’s Real Bias Is Conservative (but Not in the Way Liberals Often Say).” He...
View ArticleArrested Development: Too Cliché to Like?
by Ryan Duffy It’s back and finally there is even an official start date: this upcoming May, streaming on Netflix. I am talking about, of course, the comeback of the critically acclaimed show Arrested...
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Building a Duck Dynasty on Cable TV
If you hear something worthwhile calling out to you among the bogs, toils, and snares of the suffocating swamp that is “reality television,” chances are it’s coming from the Robertson men of A&E’s...
View ArticleThe Future of Film
Editor’s note: This is the final post in a four-part series. by Mark Tapson As I discussed in the first three parts (here, here, and here) of this short series on the future of film, the landscape of...
View ArticlePost of the Week
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View Article“Gotcha” Journalism Is Ruining the NFL
The National Football League is an economic and entertainment juggernaut, providing the most competitive, exciting product in the sports world today. It’s a big deal. And although I’m fully aware that...
View ArticlePost of the Week
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Rambo: First Blood and the Stigma of Veterans’ Invisible Injuries
Source: Screened Think about all the Hollywood movies you’ve seen about disturbed veterans going ballistic. Your recent crop of films include Brothers, in which Tobey Maguire’s character is thought to...
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That Nonexistent Time When Everyone Read More Books
Source: Wikipedia Julia Ingalls, writing in Salon, laments that the way we consume literature is changing, forcing us to turn to more instantly gratifying, “repackaged” literature. While she eventually...
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