Certain songs or genres of music become tied to cultural moments, shaping the identity of entire generations. For example, the music of The Beatles, Michael Jackson, or Madonna not only holds personal significance for many individuals but also represents broader cultural movements. These artists’ songs are often tied to specific decades,... See more
The monsters in the woods, dressed in deep, rich reds, the things “we do not speak of,” are as much Ichabod’s Headless Horseman, a personification of rural intolerance, as they are Dubya’s WMDs—the threat that’s always supposedly waiting right around the corner but is ultimately fictitious
The Village , a group of disillusioned 20th-century support-group members choose to retreat from what they see as a violent, baffling urban present into a simulacrum of a 19th-century agrarian commune, and in their attempts to escape violence, end up creating their own form of it.
20th-century political radicalism begetting the search for 19th-century socialist utopia, which in turn produces 17th-century colonialist fundamentalism.