Remembering I Have Free Will And Using It To Write This Anti-Free Will Essay

An existentialist goes on a nihilistic diatribe over the internet's overwrought use of and chronic misunderstanding of free will.

Pimp and Hoe Culture and the Art of Accessorizing Your Escape

An exploration of self-reclamation through pop culture, fashion, and cultural ephemera, contextualizing pimp and hoe culture through firsthand experience with a convicted sex trafficker.

Is Gen Z Supposed to Fear God?

A Gen Z child of immigrants reflects on how his generation has reclaimed God as its virtual messiah.

I Was the Poster Child for the Toxic TV Panic

A firsthand account from a former “toxic TV” case study revisiting childhood anxiety, escapism, and media blame.
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Rubbernecking: From David Cronenberg’s ‘Crash’ to Dash Cam Videos

Are we chasing Cronenberg-ian satisfaction by watching dash cam car crash compilations?
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Living Inside the Beauty vs Brains Binary

Being a walking, talking, "hot girl who reads" is more demoralizing than it looks.
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Radical Proliferation: On Matt Farley and The Art of Relentlessness

A polemic against irony-poisoned media culture in the name of defending outsider artists, like Matt Farley, who keep creating anyway.
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Icarus Flying Too Close to the Ground

Male flight explains literature’s shifting landscape, where men mistake women’s growth in the industry as oppression
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The Sound of White Trash: Ugly Music for an Aesthetic Era 

How contemporary Southern artists are reclaiming the "white trash" identity

We Need to Talk About the School Shooter Aesthetic

The Drama, Our Hero Balthazar, and the aesthetics of identity performance in a post-Columbine generation.
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The Internet is a Haunted House

A decaying mansion mirrors the internet’s haunted archives, where past selves are preserved and distorted.

Sex, Power, and the Status Quo: Book Review of Zahra Stardust’s Indie Porn

A review of Zahra Stardust’s book Indie Porn, examining its argument for pornography as resistance and the questions it leaves unanswered.

A Tumblr-Era Time Capsule: The 1975’s I Like It When You Sleep

Vol. II of 'Listen to This!' explores the psyche of the mid-2010s internet and The 1975's emblematic sophomore album

The Masochistic Pleasure of Powerlessness in Www.RachelOrmont.com

The threat of the Dimes Square scene and the destabilization of self in Peter Vack's Www.RachelOrmont.com

Book Review: Lost Lambs by Madeline Cash

In Madeline Cash’s debut novel, suburban malaise is rendered with confidence, ambition, and a voice that feels fully formed.