What time is it? Foreign Policy Time! Lemonhope and the conundrum of freedom
When is it right to overthrow a dictatorship? What if you’re made of lemons?
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Posts by Richard Rosenbaum on Overthinking It
Top 4 Conflicts of the Transcendental Ideas That Will Totally Blow Your Mind Forever!
These crazy ideas can’t be true…and can’t NOT be true!!
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Are Celebrities People?
How “This is the End” proves that it literally takes a miracle to make public figures sympathetic.
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A Link Across Time: The Power of Childhood in The Legend of Zelda
What is “The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds” trying to tell us about nostalgia? And what does it have to do with turning into a painting?
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Punktuation: The Politics of Diacritical Symbols in Band Names
On the inextricable relationship between rock & roll, grammar, and authority.
P-Zombies, Zero-Sum Videogames, and the Problem of Free Will
How does “The Walking Dead” solve the conundrum of narrative vs. freedom in games?
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The Ship of Theseus and the Toronto Maple Leafs
If a sports franchise changes its name, moves cities, and turns over its entire roster, is it still somehow the same team?
Keys to Your Brains: Plants vs. Zombies vs. Operant Conditioning
Plants vs. Zombies 2, and the psychology of “grinding” in casual video games.
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Futurama’s arguments neither particularly in favour of nor against television, Or: how everybody learned to stop worrying and love the Hypnotoad
Everybody Loves Hypnotoad, but what does that tell us about the ideology of television?
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False Consciousness in Sunnydale: Karl Marx, Adam Smith, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Why don’t Buffy and the Watcher’s Council just tell the world about vampires?
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