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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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Feds to Students: You Can’t Say That–Greg Lukianoff/WSJ
The Justice and Education departments issue…
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Why You’re Addicted to TV–Newsweek
The Revolution is being televised. Anyone who…
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Is Some Sex Wrong Even Among Consenting Adults?–The Atlantic
The question remains. Are some kinds…
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Is Sex Still Sexy?–Emily Esfahani Smith/The Atlantic
There’s something missing in today’s understanding of romance and eros.
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California Schemin’: The Golden State’s Incestuous Relationship With Big Lotto | Acculturated via @Acculturated acculturated.com/2013/04/24/cal…
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Bryan Dik’s on the many lessons The Office has offered over the years on love. acculturated.com/2013/05/17/pos… pic.twitter.com/zpDnke6WYN
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How we watch tv has been changing in recent years. “Binge watching” is increasingly common. acculturated.com/daily-scene/wh…
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Meet three young women who want to teach our repressed society how to explore its relationship with death. acculturated.com/daily-scene/th…
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