Smile and The Cassandra Effect
Within the first few scenes of the 2022 horror film Smile, the audience encounters Laura, a Ph.D. student who witnesses the suicide of a...
Walking With Our Demons: American Puritanism and "Young Goodman Brown"
History is repetitive when we are not mindful. Pieces of it move into our contemporary lives and hang like a lingering stench. I think of...
Cass Sunstein and Star Wars According to His World
For a graduate course on American history and popular culture, I recently watched a C-SPAN video of author and legal scholar Cass...
Feminism and ____'s Black Nanny
Gil Scott Heron insisted the revolution would not be televised. Of course, he didn’t anticipate the birth and global take-over of social...