Culture Archives

Social Justice

The Problem With Psychiatry, the ‘DSM,’ and the Way We Study Mental Illness

Psychiatry is under attack for not being scientific enough, but the real problem is its blindness to culture. When it comes to mental illness, we wear the disorders that come off the rack.

Ethan Watters

Social Justice

Real Men Don’t

A list of things not to do if you want to be a Real Man.

Ryan O'Hanlon

Social Justice

In Australia You Can Now Be a Woman, a Man—or Neither

The Land Down Under has expanded the legal definition of gender.

Marc Herman

Social Justice

A Guide to Will and Jaden Smith’s Unifying Theory of the World

Patterns. Boom.

Ryan O'Hanlon

Social Justice

We Are All Internet Addicts Now—Just Don’t Call It That

New research has many (on the Internet) talking about the evolutionary causes of our "addiction" to the Internet, but it's not an addiction, at least not in the way we're used to applying the label.

Jared Keller

Social Justice

Welcome to America, the Land That Vacation Forgot

Time off for being young? For working swing shift? With extra pay? Not only were U.S. vacation policies drafted by Ebenezer Scrooge before (a working-day) Christmas, but there are lots of time-off practices the Land of the Free missed entirely.

Michael Todd

Social Justice

Bondage Aficionados Are Better Adjusted Than Most

New research from the Netherlands finds that the psychological profile of people who enjoy certain non-mainstream sex games is surprisingly positive.

Tom Jacobs

Education

The Kids Really Are All Right

The facts say children have never been safer. So why can’t we loosen the leash? Taking stock of parental anxiety on the 30th anniversary of National Missing Children’s Day.

David Villano

Social Justice

Without an Apostrophe, I No Longer Exist

If we eliminate apostrophes from language, what will happen to all the people with the tiny marks in their names?

Ryan O'Hanlon