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American Culture

Posted inNonfiction

White Looks

by Soraya Roberts August 26, 2019February 3, 2023

Should white critics cover black culture? Only if they’re able to own their whiteness.

Posted inCommentary, Culture, Current Events, Reading List

A Reading List for Reconsidering the Fourth of July

by Danielle Jackson July 3, 2018October 19, 2022

How should we think about the Fourth of July given the current circumstances?

Posted inFeatured, Food, Nonfiction, Quotes

Cheese and Macaroni Do Not a Mac and Cheese Make

by benhuberman June 4, 2018October 19, 2022

On the complex history and triumphant ubiquity of America’s most comforting staple.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Why Everyone Loves Macaroni and Cheese

by benhuberman May 30, 2018October 19, 2022

A veteran cheesemonger reflects on the most American of comfort-food staples.

Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Quotes

Living In These Curated Times

by Aaron Gilbreath March 15, 2017October 19, 2022

At The Baffler, Thomas Frank looks at the pros and cons and history of what we call “curation.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Fighting Azov Dolphins

by michelleweber February 21, 2017October 19, 2022

The Mariupol, Ukraine Dolphins play (American) football seven miles from the front lines — a weekly chance for “three hours of American way of life.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

How America Lost Its Identity

by michelleweber February 6, 2017October 19, 2022

From the outside looking in: reporter Holger Stark, who spent the past four years as Der Spiegel’s Washington correspondent, asks “What led this once mighty nation into decline?”

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