Category: Culture & Society
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The diploma divide: Political identity as a function of education
For decades, education has been a great social equalizer, or at least it pretended to be. Now, it’s a dividing line, as sharp as it is consequential. Today, those with college degrees lean left, while those without lean right. How did we get here?
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Red hats and rhetoric: When fashion met ideology
Sometime between the invention of the baseball cap and the cultural phenomenon that is MAGA merchandise, the unthinkable happened: fashion and ideology collided. Yes, I’m talking about the infamous red “Make America Great Again” hat—a pedestrian product that became a lightning rod for modern political discourse.
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How politics became the new personality test
Gone are the days when you could size someone up based on their taste in music or whether they’re a cat person or a dog person. Now, it’s all about where they stand on the latest social media-fueled outrage.
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Civil discourse to culture wars: The erosion of common ground
Civil discourse has disappeared, replaced by culture wars and hyper-polarization. Explore how media, social platforms, and zero-sum politics have eroded common ground—and discover ways to rebuild meaningful dialogue.
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Politics as identity: Partisanship and personal relationships
Politics has become more than policy—it’s personal. Discover how hyper-partisanship is reshaping relationships, the role of social media in deepening divides, and practical ways to bridge the gap in this polarized world.
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Why Kamala lost: America’s inopportune moment of self-revelation
The pundits are focusing on the wrong thing. Kamala’s 2024 campaign didn’t fail because of some strategic mishap. It’s something deeper.
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Own The Libs: Politics is the New Personality (Free Excerpt)
Trading personality for politics: What do we stand to lose? Memes. Mortifying merch. Malignant monopolies on policy and ideology. These are some of the most salient features of modern political discourse. Over the last decade, we have witnessed an equally fascinating and worrying shift in how people like you and…
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Psychology, sociology, culture theory: An unmanageable tension
A walk in the bar joke involving a psychologist, a sociologist, and a cultural theorist. Some might call it a dark twist.
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Conventional knowledge management versus KM4D: No paradigmatic difference but one?
Is conventional, or corporate knowledge management all that different from KM for Development? I look at audience as the distinguishing filter between the two approaches.
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Culture, power, and narratology: Muted voices in conspiracy scholarship
Conspiracy theories are often studied as a psychological phenomenon affecting narrative consumers at the individual level. What we should study is the narratives themselves and how they morph with power and culture.
