Cocktail culture articles
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We’re not multicultural. We have one culture. The Australian culture
Mass migration is the largest and most controversial political topic in the Western world. Come the beginning of June, mass…What to read next: The pop culture wars | Australian Utopianism: causes and cures | Travels through the ruins of culture | Paul Fletcher, the father of Australian censorship?
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In Black Twitter: A People's History, A Platform Changes the Culture and a Culture Changes a Platform
From the death of Osama bin Laden (as announced by Dwayne Johnson) to the rise of Donald Trump, from #TheDress to the Oscars slap, it’s impossible to imagine the last twenty or so years of global cultural history without Twitter, the microblogging platform that no one has ever referred to as “X.” And over the past two decades, no subsection of the app’s vast user base has produced more enduring memes, more culture-shifting social-justice hashtags, and more pure comedy than the cohort known as...
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The New York Times Denounces Cancel Culture After Fueling Cancel Culture For Years
The New York Times Denounces Cancel Culture After Fueling Cancel Culture For Years Authored by Jonathan Turley, For those of us who have criticized the cancel culture in higher education for years, the attacks and shunning have been unrelenting. The media has played a role in that culture and none more prominently than the New York Times. Recently, however, the mob came for liberal professors and media who have remained silent for years as conservatives and others were targeted on...