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-11 posts tagged "American dream"
Megumi Tamura | Thursday, October 14, 2021
For one of my classes, called “Simulating Politics and Global Affairs,” I recently read an article titled “The Evolution of Ethnocentrism” written by two political scientists, Ross A. Hammond and Robert Axelrod, at the University of Michigan. While ethnocentrism is generally seen as (and rightly so) a bad thing because it correlates with a sense
Matthew Kellenberg | Friday, January 17, 2020
Music critics tend to disagree. However, when they do so, they tend to agree on why: Music taste is subjective. That is, when it comes to judging music, we are individual subjects making independent judgments. I disagree. To a certain extent, our judgments of music are determined by the cultures in which we live and
Lucas Masin-Moyer | Tuesday, February 19, 2019
In June of 2017, I made my way down from my temporary home in Concord, New Hampshire, to New York to see LCD Soundsystem at Brooklyn Steel. This show — which I got into despite a brief fake ticket scare — staged about two-and-a-half months before the release of the band’s fourth album, “American Dream,”
Gabriel Niforatos | Tuesday, October 9, 2018
It looked like a scroll. A picture from a news-clipping at least 30 years old. The paper had yellowed and crumbled and fallen apart at the edges, crinkled in a thousand different ways. At the center was a photograph showing a young, college-aged man in a basketball uniform, rising up for a fadeaway jumper. My
Jackie O'Brien | Friday, September 21, 2018
This morning, I traveled an hour to 101 West Congress Parkway in Chicago. After entering the security line at 8:00 a.m. and getting haggled for my water bottle, I waited in another line. After proving my purpose for being there, I was escorted upstairs. I waited more. Then, I was ushered into a large room.
Erin Shang | Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Several decades ago, a stout man stood on the steps of Lincoln Memorial, in midst of a group of priests and facing a large crowd of dreamers. His determined and inspiring voice reckoned, “I have a dream, one that’s deeply rooted in the American dream … ” Several decades later, a tall, white male sits
Jacob Galden | Monday, September 4, 2017
It’s been seven years since LCD Soundsystem released a new album, yet considering the breakup, better late than never. After a gaudy farewell show, a documentary and a live album, James Murphy — the mastermind behind the band — and company finally return to assert themselves as the 40-something monarchs of electronic indie rock. “American
Scott Tully | Friday, April 1, 2016
This past weekend, I was lucky enough to fly home to see my friends and family for Easter. On Monday, I bid farewell to them and to my dog and drove to my flight back to school, an afternoon departure from Boston’s Logan Airport. This trip did not seem unique. I went through security as
Courtney Becker | Friday, March 18, 2016
Robert Putnam, the Peter and Isabel Malkin professor of public policy at Harvard University, gave a lecture on Thursday based on his book “Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis,” about the differences in opportunities for kids from affluent families and kids from low-income families. Putnam said while America has grown in several ways in
Devon Chenelle | Friday, November 6, 2015
American author, essayist and social critic Peter Sacks examined the relationship between class and its influence on the American college experience, as well as colleges’ current relationship with social mobility, in a lecture Thursday night. “The American Dream is on life support,” Sacks said in the lecture, titled “Climbing the Class Ladder: Do college and universities help —