Monthly Archives: November 2012

Matthew Linder examines the continuing cultural legacy of Michael Jackson’s Thriller, and its themes of paranoia and fear.

There are some people for whom the enjoyment of Black Friday is essentially hardwired into their physiology.

“To remember the things that death and sin have stolen from us, this is the only way, I think, to be grateful for that which remains.”

“If we refuse to acknowledge the truths of White Privilege, race and cultural disparity how will we ever obey God by working to change these problems?”

We fear that we’ve become monotonous, boring, and irrelevant, and so we respond to that fear with irony in an attempt to imply that we don’t care, that we’re not bothered, that we’re not tired.

There seems to be an innate, archetypal desire in most men to want to bring home the bacon.

“It wasn’t until I stopped to reflect on the way home that I realized what a treasure that toy must have seemed to my daughter.”

This time around, we’ll be looking at alterna-pop legends, the greatest post-punk band of all time, and the return of post-rock’s mightiest.

China will be marked in the upcoming years with subsequent outpouring of the spirit of God and continued spiritual attack.

America is more racially divided today than when Obama took office. In this feature, Alan Noble explores the causes of this division and why it may be a good thing.

“It’s like a really skeevy version of Lost!”

“It’s not merely a cruel and mocking simulacra of videogames themselves, but a kind of false religion.”