Should white critics cover black culture? Only if they’re able to own their whiteness.
American Culture
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A Reading List for Reconsidering the Fourth of July
How should we think about the Fourth of July given the current circumstances?
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Cheese and Macaroni Do Not a Mac and Cheese Make
On the complex history and triumphant ubiquity of America’s most comforting staple.
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Why Everyone Loves Macaroni and Cheese
A veteran cheesemonger reflects on the most American of comfort-food staples.
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Living In These Curated Times
At The Baffler, Thomas Frank looks at the pros and cons and history of what we call “curation.”
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The Fighting Azov Dolphins
The Mariupol, Ukraine Dolphins play (American) football seven miles from the front lines — a weekly chance for “three hours of American way of life.”
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How America Lost Its Identity
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?”