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Japan crisis evokes comparisons to its pop culture disaster narratives, historic events

Japan crisis evokes comparisons to its pop culture disaster narratives, historic events In postwar books and films, the nation has imagined national apocalypse from earthquake, tsunami and nuclear threat. Recent events echo its pop culture and World War II-era history.… Continue reading

Analysis: A culture of constitutional disregard

Analysis: A culture of constitutional disregard Trying to shake loose an early copy of the Justice Department’s long-awaited report on the New Orleans Police Department was fruitless last week, unearthing only the comment from one city official who hadn’t seen… Continue reading

Center of Culture

Center of Culture [image2] Patronize the Arts Attend a show or contribute :: scfta.org On a cool fall evening, hundreds of people set up their lawn chairs and blankets at the Arts Plaza of the Segerstrom Center for the Arts.… Continue reading

Does communism advance technology for important things while capitalism only advances it for pop culture?

Question by Dr. Trolls: Does communism advance technology for important things while capitalism only advances it for pop culture? If there were to societies that are completely isolated from one another and one was communist and the other was… Continue reading

Less chaotic Italy still has Europe’s richest culture

Less chaotic Italy still has Europe’s richest culture Visitors to Italy will find less anarchy in 2011. At times the experience is positively Germanic. Take Rome, for example, where the relatively new online reservation system for the Vatican Museum is… Continue reading

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