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Trick-or-treating became widespread in the U.S. after World War II, driven by the country's suburbanization that allowed kids to safely travel door to door seeking candy from their neighbors. In 2020, that tradition looked different due to the coronavirus pandemic. Here, a costumed actor hands out candy at a Halloween drive-through experience in Woodland Hills, California. Photograph by Mario An..

The Twelve Signs of the Japanese Zodiac Does your Zodiac sign fit your personality? By Namiko Abe Thought Co. Namiko Abe is a Japanese language teacher and translator, as well as a Japanese calligraphy expert. She has been a freelance writer for nearly 20 years. "The twelve signs of the Japanese zodiac: Nezumi (Rat), Ushi (Ox), Tora (Tiger), Usagi (Rabbit), Tatsu (Dragon), Hebi (Snake), Uma (Hor..

Presenting the Future, courtesy of TikTok communist Woke Fatti (For example...) Cultural Liberalism Vs. Cultural Socialism Rod Dreher The American Conservative Januiary 25, 2022 Here’s a really interesting report by the prominent UK political scientist Eric Kauffman, analyzing wokeness and its future prospects. It starts like this: Western societies are in the midst of a growing “culture war” be..

Why the French prize culture more than the British Arabella Byrne 23 March 2021, 3:00pm From Spectator Life Asked to defend France’s reputation on the global stage, a French diplomat once told the International Herald Tribune, 'If Germany has Siemens, we have Voltaire.' In this vision lies something very obviously French: a single-minded belief in superiority grounded not in the future but in th..

'Some Monuments Really Should Be Torn Down,' Says WWII Historian Keith Lowe By Meredith Wolf Schizer Newsweek On 11/25/20 In his new book, Prisoners of History: What Monuments to World War II Tell Us About Our History and Ourselves, award-winning historian Keith Lowe asks whether we should be held hostage by the values of our communal history and whether monuments erected in the past need to rem..

조선시대 음식과 밥상의 문화 이지현 (위덕대 외식산업학) 교수 釜大新聞 2020.11.09 15:03 외세의 침입에 달라지는 식재료 조선왕조의 음식문화는 크게 다섯 시기로 구분된다. △조선 전기에서부터 임진왜란 전까지 △임진왜란 이후부터 병자호란까지 △병자호란 이후부터 정조까지 △순조 이후부터 갑오경장 이전까지 △갑오경장 이후부터 한 말까지가 그것인데, 그사이 외세의 침입이 세 번 있었고 그때마다 음식문화는 크게 달라졌다고 볼 수 있다. 인간이 본격적으로 조리를 시작한 것은 지금으로부터 약 1만 년 전, 오랜 구석기시대가 끝나고 중석기시대와 신석기시대를 거치면서 사반나 농경문화의 영향으로 내화용 토기를 만들게 되면서부터였다. 우리가 잘 아는 한반도의 고대 3국, 즉 신라·백제·고구려는 벼농사의 권력자가 ..

Classical Music Isn’t Elitist But some of its woke critics are. by Daniel Lelchuk The Bulwark November 1, 2020 5:30 am Portrait of Beethoven in 1818 by August Klober (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images) This year has brought a lot of firsts for all of us, but one first I never expected was an all-out attack on Beethoven and his Symphony No. 5, perhaps the most beloved and popular sy..

Is artistic nepotism an evil – or a necessity? Nepotism in the arts is very much alive and here to stay By Alexander Larman The Critic 11 September, 2020 The other day, I discovered that a talented young writer was publishing her first novel. She seemed to have a good, if not unusual back story; she had been working as a bookseller in the estimable Mr B’s Emporium in Bath and had published her d..

Do We Have Victorians to Thank for Consumerism? Jennifer Howard on How We Came to Strive for Material Excess By Jennifer Howard Literar Hub September 2, 2020 American domestic life circa 2020 feels far removed from that of the 19th-century Londoner or Liverpudlian. But Victorian notions of décor and comfort crossed the Atlantic and held sway in stateside imaginations and homes long after the age..

The Pleasures and Punishments of Reading Franz Kafka By Joshua Cohen Paris Review September 2, 2020 Arts & Culture Franz Kafka. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Reading the work of Franz Kafka is a pleasure, whose punishment is this: writing about it, too. In Kafka, no honor comes without suffering, and no suffering goes unhonored. Being asked to write about Kafka is like being asked to des..