a journal of cities and culture
There are a handful of cultural texts that seemed with a disturbing clairvoyance to predict—and respond to in advance—the horrific identity politics that would mark 2017’s U.S. slipslide into a dumpster fire of open bigotry, competitive misogyny, and proud incompetence. …
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It’s not a good sign when it’s easy to find parking in a city’s downtown—that had been one of my first thoughts upon moving to Allentown, PA when I started teaching at Muhlenberg College in 2009, and the thought returned …
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At first it all seems rather banal: a politician delivering his grateful victory speech to a room full of excited supporters after a nail-biting campaign. Thanks for this, thanks for that… the usual platitudes and empty promises abound, resounding across …
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On the day of Donald Trump’s inauguration earlier this year, many of us were still grasping about. Just what, in fact, the political reality was or would become seemed up for grabs, and there was no shortage of signs to …
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The year-in-review piece is as much a staple of the season as resolutions and ball drops. And, indeed, as we close the cover on the second volume of Mediapolis and officially enter our third year, there is much to review. …
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