Category: Culture

The Nass Reviews Flaked

This show is like the less-funny, homosocial version of Love except there’s still chicks in it and dudes who are bad at talking to them.

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Wittgenstein in Shadow

Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophy’s most misunderstood philosopher.

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Liking Love

The first few episodes feature some pretty conventional plot devices, but the characterization and dialogue have a loose, awkward, and very human quality to them.

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That Precept Kid Reviews Recipes

This bark is not trying to be anything than what it really is, something that plagues so many holiday desserts.

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The Greatest Debate

Two art history majors argue the most crucial issue of our time: Which Princeton plastic water bottle is better?

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Death Grips “Hot Head” Track Review

“Hot Head” is not only an assertion of power but also an investigation into how power works.

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A Star is not Born but Constructed

“The Stars— they’re just like us!” Or are they? An analysis of the fabrication behind Adele’s relatable success, the Jennifer Lawrence effect, and the uncanny valley.

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Z A C H C O H E N & HIS DEAD PETZ

Imagining life in college through Miley’s wild career changes.

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The Myth of the Reclusive Writer

In Rich Homie Quan’s 2013 classic, “Type of Way,” he joins a three thousand-year tradition of literary recluses in a single rhyming couplet: “I got a hide away, and I go there sometimes, to give my mind a break/ I find a way, to still get through the struggle, what I’m tryna say.”

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The New Kid on the Block

Trenton hasn’t entirely forgotten the Roebling Factory; something new is happening on this block.

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Personal Branding

You are a brand. The sun-drenched, chrome-filtered frames of your Instagram feed; the captioned albums on your Facebook profile. Your six-word Twitter bio, clever without pretension.

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Ask a Mormon

According to many Broadway aficionados, The Book of Mormon is the best musical of the century. The jokes are witty and the music is catchy and the tickets are stupid expensive unless you go with your residential college. The show is also irreverent to the point of blasphemy.

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