Abroad and Beyond

In recent months the media are full of stories illustrating how sky high medical costs often keep Americans from getting the medical care they need. Insurance companies decline to offer coverage on many procedures that are considered elective, making those procedures unattainable to the insured. Industry reports indicate that as many as 50 percent of [...]

American pop culture has taken advantage of postmodernity to appropriate cultural elements from abroad and living within. In doing so, American pop culture reads into the foreign culture’s original intent and meaning, and quickly transmogrifies icons, values, dress and ritual into a commercial-American-friendly shadow of the original.With a penchant for both commercialization and opportunity, America [...]