Showing posts with label popular culture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label popular culture. Show all posts
Friday, June 26, 2026

Stripes at 45: A Patriotic Movie

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    Many posts have discussed patriotism and American exceptionalism . Stripes premiered 45 years ago today.  Two years ago, Rich Cohen...
Sunday, February 15, 2026

Universal Nation

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Many   posts  have  discussed   immigration . James Pethokoukis at AEI: Abroad, the American way of life had become, in his phrase, “the per...
Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Looking Back on The West Wing

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Past posts have discussed politics and the entertainment media . Becca Rothfeld at WP  writes about the old TV show The West Wing : “In ...
Saturday, January 18, 2025

Trump v. Freedom of Expression

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Ted Johnson at Deadline: In an early morning rant, Donald Trump went off on Seth Meyers ‘ late-night NBC show, declaring that “ Comcast sh...
Monday, June 24, 2024

How to Handle Hecklers

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A number of  posts  have  discussed  antisemitism  and the Israel-Hamas war.   Comedian Jerry Seinfeld teaches pro-Ham hecklers/protesters w...
Monday, August 28, 2023

Conservative Country Songs

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Many posts have discussed the politics of popular culture . Rolling Stone : EVEN ACROSS THE whole history of the genre, unabashedly cons...
Monday, July 24, 2023

Racial Identity is Fluid

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David Byler at WP: Many Americans assume race is a constant: something people are born into and that — like their birth date or country of ...
Sunday, March 12, 2023

Slavery and GWTW

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 At The Ankler, historian David Vincent Kimel writes about deleted scenes in the script of GoneWith the Wind . Remarkably, much of the exci...
Monday, September 12, 2022

"America First"

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 Sarah Churchwell at WP: Popular memory, as captured by Wikipedia, currently credits Woodrow Wilson with coining the phrase “ America Firs...
Friday, April 1, 2022

Knowledge of Issues and Events -- Including The Slap

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Many posts have discussed public knowledge of issues and events . 88% of Americans have seen, read or heard about Will Smith slapping C...
Sunday, February 27, 2022

Serious Cold Open on SNL

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Ukrainian Chorus Dumka of New York performs Prayer for Ukraine. Saturday Night Live.
Friday, April 30, 2021

Popular Culture and Extremist Recruitment

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Marc Fisher at WP: The far-right groups ... including white supremacists, self-styled militias and purveyors of anti-government conspiracy ...
Tuesday, September 1, 2020

De Facto Chinese Censorship of US Films

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Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian at Axios : China's box office is projected to soon surpass the U.S. as the largest film market in the world....
Tuesday, February 18, 2020

California Drives Out Movie Production

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Jen Maffessanti at the Foundation for Economic Education: In fact, in 2017, only ten of the top 100 movies produced that year were made m...
Monday, November 12, 2018

Grace, Reconciliation, and a Veteran

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On Saturday Night Live last week, Pete Davidson mocked Dan Crenshaw, a GOP congressional candidate who had lost an eye during combat in Af...
Sunday, June 24, 2018

Stephen Colbert and Patrick Wilson Sing the National Anthem at Citi Field

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A number of posts have discussed the national anthem.   Here is a respectful (and surprisingly good) rendition.
Tuesday, December 26, 2017

Using Pop Culture to Counter Russian Disinformation

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Adam Entous, Ellen Nakashima and Greg Jaffe at WP  report on Russian disinformation in 2016 . Richard Stengel, the undersecretary for publi...
Thursday, October 6, 2016

Dab

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Four years ago, Rep. Loretta Sanchez did a "Call Me Maybe" video. At The Los Angeles Times , Christine Mai-Duc reports on the Ca...
Friday, September 30, 2016

The Shallows

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Peggy Noonan writes: In the past 18 months I talked to three young presidential candidates—people running for president, real grown-ups—wh...
Wednesday, September 21, 2016

A Problem with "Designated Survivor"

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Designated Survivor , a new series that premieres tonight on ABC, is about a low-ranking cabinet officer who becomes president after a terr...