The Rise of the Anti-Culture
by Carl R. TruemanThe Culture War is over. Culture is dead, the coup de grace inflicted by an Unholy Trinity. Now begins the Age of the Anti-Culture. Continue Reading »
Don't Kill the Moon
by Alexi SargeantThe long-running British sci-fi staple Doctor Who has quietly become one of the most pro-life shows on television. Under the tenure of showrunner Steven Moffat, there has been a strong pro-life subtext for several seasons of Doctor Who. Even before Moffat took the reins of the show, he wrote a pair . . . . Continue Reading »
The Parenting Problems of Age Segregation
by Mark BauerleinIt has been more than a half-century since James Coleman and his team surveyed students in ten high schools to determine their values and interests and attitudes toward learning. The conclusion was that a new social formation was upon us: the adolescent society. That was the title of the book . . . . Continue Reading »
Evangelicals, Pop Culture, and Mass Culture
by Dale M. CoulterThe issue of populism in the Evangelical ethos raises a concern for the need to differentiate between pop culture as folk culture and pop culture as mass culture. At its best, Evangelicalism seeks to preserve and foster folk culture and the critics of Evangelical piety need to recognize this . . . . Continue Reading »
The Conservative Pop Culture Gap
by Carl ScottOver at Powerline, an interesting post and a more interesting thread on whether conservatives can close the “Pop Culture Gap.” One guy even laments that the Republicans blew by not taking the book South Park Conservatives to heart! So, apparently the day of vindication of Paul Cantor , . . . . Continue Reading »
Carl’s Rock Songbook #77: Is Conor Friedersdorf Right That We Need More Conservative Rap Critics?
by Carl ScottWell, he thinks so . And far more importantly, in my sincere judgment, Mark Judge does too . Judge writes for Acculturated, the conservative website that seeks to explain Why Pop Culture Matters. So this post is a continuation of some observations about rap , but also, about the paradoxes of . . . . Continue Reading »
Carl’s Rock Songbook #76: Rap and the Summer of ‘89
by Carl ScottA slight change of plans here—I had wanted to talk about this recent Conor Friedersdorf piece about the lack of conservative rap critics as part of a three-part essay called “Paradoxes of Conservative Pop-Culture Studies,” but I realized that to really to do that, I would have to . . . . Continue Reading »
James Poulos on Conservatives and Pop Culture
by Carl ScottSane remarks on the subject, over at Acculturated, from Mr. Postmodern Conservative. And you also learn that he reputedly plays guitar in a band called Black Hi-Lighter! We’ll believe it when a link is provided . . . My own fantasy band is called The Cicadas. . . . . Continue Reading »
Debt, Gift, and Sacrifice in the Hunger Games
by James R. RogersThe book, The Hunger Games, is of course better than the movie. The book’s story moves with the internal dialogue of the teen protagonist, Katniss. In contrast, the film’s story moves along through events external to Katniss. As a result of this shift, the film throws away our window into Katniss’s mind and, significantly, into her moral psychology, both of which are by far the most engaging part of the book (and the entire trilogy of books for that matter)… . Continue Reading »
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