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Give Monogamy a Chance
The hit HBO series Girls, which is wildly popular with twenty-something audiences, is also notorious for its frank portrayals of the…
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There’s More to Life Than Being Successful
Listening to the Acculturated podcast with Rod Dreher, which we published yesterday, made me wonder about some of the cultural…
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How Technology Is Killing Human Connections, Happy Hour Edition
Will everything one day be sacrificed on the altar of convenience and efficiency? When it comes to how we interact…
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The Benefits of Optimism
Have you seen or read Silver Linings Playbook and/or Life of Pi? If you haven’t, I couldn’t recommend them more. My latest…
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Are Women Who Say “Sorry” Weaker?
Who apologizes more, men or women?
According to a highly circulated study from 2010, which has resurfaced recently in a…
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The Beyoncé Debate: Can Traditionally Minded Women Be Sexy?
Yesterday, we ran a wonderful piece by Ashley McGuire on Beyoncé’’s Soulful Feminism. Ashley looked at Beyoncé’s superbowl performance and…
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What Is Love, Anyway?
In her new book Love 2.0: How Our Supreme Emotion Affects Everything We Feel, Think, Do, and Become, the psychologist Barbara…
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Thrift and Fashion: A Beautiful Alliance
Several weeks ago when we ran on Acculturated a series of blog posts about our “pop culture guilty pleasures,” I had…
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From Robert Penn Warren to Honey Boo Boo: People Magazine, Then and Now
Earlier this week, I was doing some research on the writer Eleanor Clark (1913-96)–who was the wife of Robert Penn…
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There’s More to Life Than Being Happy
In my latest piece for the Atlantic, “There’s More to Life Than Happiness,” I write about a new study that examines the difference…
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THE DAILY SCENE
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Cancer Survivor Melissa Etheridge Says Angelina Jolie’s Mastectomy “Wasn’t a Brave Choice”–Mail Online
When Angelina Jolie underwent a preventative…
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Kim Kardashian, Kanye Need to “Focus” on Premature Baby, Says Dr. Oz–UsMagazine
Dr. Mehmet Oz has some cautionary…
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Buddhist Monks Are Having a Louis Vuitton Scandal–New York Magazine
A viral video showing Buddhist monks…
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Listening to Young Atheists: Lessons for a Stronger Christianity–The Atlantic
When a Christian foundation interviewed college…
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Albert Einstein’s Advice to His 11-Year-Old Son–Brain Pickings
“That is the way to learn…
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What is Pop Culture? What is High Culture? acculturated.com/2013/05/08/wha… … via @Acculturated Must read!
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Watching the #NBAFinals? Read my review of the cultural implications of these two teams acculturated.com/2013/06/18/the… @Acculturated #Heat #Spurs
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These pageants and tv shows about pageants continue to be a financial boon at the expense of female dignity. acculturated.com/2013/06/18/dis… #tcot
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Miss Utah was asked about women in the workforce & she fumbled. But the real disgrace is the pageants, themselves --> acculturated.com/2013/06/18/dis…
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