Being an American right now is a wild ride. Every day brings a new controversy, breathless media narratives, and the same loud voices rushing in to score political points. Then another Truth Social post drops and the circus moves on. But all that noise is drowning out the actual story. On her new podcast Runaway Country, veteran journalist Alex Wagner talks to the voices at the center of the headlines: from the fringes of the resistance, to the marrow of MAGA, to the many people who’ve found ...
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In this installment, Andrew Schlegel reads "Monster Culture: 7 Theses," an essay pulled from Dr. Cohen's book, "Monster Theory: Reading Culture." This piece examines what it means to be monstrous, as well as the processes by which someone or something becomes a monster and how we can interpret not only the "monsters" themselves, but the cultures and societies that create them.
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