Entertainment
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Internet outrage at a mixed review of Lana Del Rey's new album. What do we learn about celebrity today?
Rachel Skaggs (Ohio State University) describes her research on making it in country music songwriting.
The Annex discusses the case of Jussie Smollett, an actor who was charged with fabricating a hate crime .
We discuss "cancel culture", demands that cultural products are removed from public distribution and circulation when their creators are enmeshed in moral transgressions.
An interview with Alexis Santos (Penn State Health and Human Development), one of the researchers who questioned official death counts of Puerto Rico fatalities resulting from Hurricane Maria. Santos’ and similar analyses led to important questions about the adequacy of government responses to the hurricane. We also discuss the Tree […]
Joe, Leslie, Gabriel, and Alexis Santos (Penn State Health and Human Development) discuss a proposal to field an African-American team at the World Baseball Classic.
Joe, Leslie, Gabriel, and Becky Yang Hsu (Georgetown University) discuss the potential impact of Black Panther’s commercial success on studio’s interest in supporting more movies featuring black casts and crews, and the viability of Wakanda-style insular development.
