1. History of the Hamburger
(Matching tags: culture,history,food)

If you look back a few thousands of years, you'll find that even the ancient Egyptians ate ground meat patties, and down ...

2. Country of Exiles: The Destruction of Place in American Life by William Leach
(Matching tags: migration,America,culture)

American civilization has always been less grounded than the others. The whole idea behind the national project is to move in and move up...

3. Bury Me Standing: the Gypsies and their Journey by Isabel Fonseca
(Matching tags: Central Europe,Roma,culture)

On a summer afternoon, one can find congregations of Roma - Gypsies - in the park in front of Prague's main train station, having picnics and playing songs. . .

4. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
(Matching tags: culture,history,civilization)

While Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies examined how some societies thrived due to their geographic and environmental endowments, this book examines why ancient societies collapsed ...

5. Yankee complexities
(Matching tags: culture,humanifesto,tourists)

Its the middle of the summer and there's tons of Yankees with loads of their parents dough to spend, trying to burr into the local scene, which appears to have completely moved to airports ...

6. What's so funny about art?
(Matching tags: culture,communications,art)

Was Art laughed to death by Dada? Or perhaps this sardonocide took place even earlier, with the first performance of Ubu Roi? Or with Baudelaire's sarcastic phantom-of-the-opera laughter, which so disturbed ...

7. Tribal Rising: the coming of a new way
(Matching tags: philosophy,culture,tribalism)

Tribalism. The word conjures up images of naked aborigines dancing up and down in abandonment, straw and feathers in their hair, wild Indians on the warpath and pygmies in the bush, stalking down their ...

8. Americanism
(Matching tags: nationalism,culture,USA)

The American system is a great external apparatus, an inexplicable machine which one might call the objective spirit of the United States and which over here they call "Americanism"; it is a monstrous ...

9. Think America
(Matching tags: culture,Americanism,humanifesto)

The concept of America, and with that the American, usually in reference to the home of the brave and land of the free...