Karl Marx’s Trip to a College Football Game
What would Karl Marx make of the labor relations of college athletics? In this post, Sarah Michele Ford shows that we can examine college athletics through a Marxist lens; in doing so we find that the...
View ArticleThe Zombie Manifesto: Marx & The Walking Dead
AMC’s award-winning zombie apocalypse drama The Walking Dead is currently in its third season of undead annihilation. The show’s protagonists are a motley crew of survivors, led by Sheriff Rick Grimes,...
View Article50 Shades of Bacon … Through a Sociological Lens
These days, bacon is everywhere you look. The current darling of the food world, this once-unheralded third leg of the eggs and toast breakfast plate has achieved unprecedented levels of superstardom....
View ArticleMe, My Selfie Stick, and I
Selfie sticks are quickly taking over public spaces. In fact, some places are actually banning them. Even if you have no idea what a selfie stick is, you will quickly find out in this post from Ami...
View ArticleIs Having a Baby Like Buying a Rolex? Economic Values & Children as Luxury...
In this piece John Kincaid explores how our profane capitalist economic values have seeped into aspects of our life we hold sacred. Specifically, he asks us to think about how modern capitalism in the...
View Article