Consumerism

Fitzgerald brings universal issues to the fore in the novel, which still resonates a century after it was first published.

Can a song be both a product of consumerism and a critique of it?

It's time to bring Epicurus back!

What happens if we make princesses purposefully flawed?

Carol-Ann Gleason reports on the serious implications of Big Pharma's neoliberal push into Africa

Three Femen activists were recently sentenced to four months in jail for a topless protest in Tunisia.

Is Berger's Marxist take on European oil painting still relevant? Has the feminist social critic Camille Paglia has lost her edge?

Notes on the evolution of the depiction of the infamous Biblical allegory of Adam and Eve.

A look at the pervasiveness of this phenomenon in art, literature, and more.

On the longing for and imaginary creation of utopias