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A Letter from the PC Brigade

Dear students,

I am a representative of your local branch of the Political Correctness Brigade.

by Sophie Parker-Rees on April 18, 2015

Grammar and Power

The politics of slang, from Nabokov to Twitter

by Emily Lever on April 12, 2015April 12, 2015

Left Swipe Smoking?

Strategic campaigns have sold cigarettes to marginalized individuals as a means of rejecting the culture that cast them out.

by Kat Kulke on April 12, 2015April 16, 2015

@TriciaLockwood

Separating a poet’s work from her tweets.

by Rachel Stone on April 12, 2015

Replacing the Irreplacable

Earlier this week, America met its replacement for the (some would say) irreplaceable Jon Stewart.

by Lara Norgaard on April 12, 2015

An Interview with Sara Marcus

Sara Marcus is a graduate student in the English department and a preceptor for ENG 351, American Literature: 1865-1930.

by Joshua Leifer on March 28, 2015April 4, 2015

The National Enquirer’s Daddy Issues

About a month ago I watched a Netflix documentary on the founder of the National Enquirer: Enquiring Minds: The Untold Story of the Man behind the National Enquirer. As it started, I saw that the production was nothing special—mostly voiceovers … Read More

by Samuel Bollen on March 15, 2015

Demystifying the D-Bar

I sit in the Forbes dining hall every Sunday for brunch and notice, through forkfuls of baked brie and lox, the tower of the Graduate College across the golf course. Its beautiful, austere architecture bares a remarkable similarity to the … Read More

by Lara Norgaard on March 15, 2015March 28, 2015

Sex on TV

Mad Men

The man will keep his suit on and will be married, but definitely not to you.

by Sophie Parker-Rees on March 7, 2015March 15, 2015

Manscaping

Before my senior year of high school, I had relegated the concept of manscaping to metrosexual metropolises like New York and Los Angeles.

by Samuel Bollen on March 7, 2015

Jon Stewart

Five years ago, my father stopped reading and started watching MSNBC, whose keening pundits now bestow constant background radiation unto our crowded living room.

by Zane Friedkin on February 28, 2015March 7, 2015

Our Relationship With Chocolate

My past several months on Princeton’s campus have been defined by chocolate. During the week leading up to Dean’s Date I may have personally made the C-Store run out of chocolate covered peanuts.

by Lara Norgaard on February 28, 2015July 21, 2017


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