June 3, 2010
Margaret K. Nelson, in her new book Parenting Out of Control: Anxious Parents in Uncertain Times, analyzes the rise of obsessive, controlling “helicopter” parents and how they affect the socio-economic… READ MORE
May 19, 2010
Broken Pencil, a magazine of zine culture (is that… redundant? an oxymoron?), put up a highly intelligent review of Alison Piepmeier’s Girl Zines. Scholastic attention to girl zines is relatively… READ MORE
May 10, 2010
A recent NYTimes article on the various public bathrooms in the city’s parks consulted Harvey Molotch, the editor of our upcoming Toilet: The Public Restroom and the Politics of Sharing…. READ MORE
May 7, 2010
That’s the news from the American Human Development Project as reported by the Wall Street Journal. NYU Press will be publishing the 2010-2011 version of AHDP’s report, Measure of America,… READ MORE
April 23, 2010
Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has… READ MORE
March 16, 2010
[podcast]https://www.fromthesquare.org/scottmelzer.mp3[/podcast] In this episode of our podcast series, Blog Editor Joe Gallagher talks to Scott Melzer, author of Gun Crusaders: The NRA’s Culture War, about the reasons for and results… READ MORE
March 3, 2010
A new review at Popmatters: It’s damn near impossible to believe that the most popular song of the alternative music era – Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” – was inspired,… READ MORE
February 16, 2010
This weekend, Kevin Smith got into a very public twitter war with Southwest Airlines after they allegedly ejected him from a full airplane for being “too fat to fly.” You… READ MORE