People & culture
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America’s New Reality Reads Like Old Warnings:
Orwell, Greenlee, and Anne Frank All Told Us This Was Coming There’s a strange, heavy rhythm to the chaos unfolding across America right now. You can feel it in the way people walk. In the way parents stand at windows a little longer. In the way every siren cuts through the air with a different…
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Stream 4,000+ Public Domain Movies on WikiFlix: Silent Class…
[ad_1] Humanity was already enjoying motion pictures a century ago. But the ability to do so at home still lay a few decades in the future, and the ability to pull up a movie on demand through a streaming service much further still. Young people in the twenty-twenties may be unable to fathom how previous…
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More Than a Movie: Hollywood’s Demons Are Closer To Scriptur…
[ad_1] Recently, I became interested in horror films, especially those concerning demons and paranormal activity. It started in 2023 when my mom had me watch Julius Avery’s The Pope’s Exorcist. While I enjoyed the movie, my initial thoughts were that this movie is just Hollywood’s understanding of exorcisms and the demonic. Surely there are no…
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Hero or brutal tyrant? The controversy over 16th-Century exp…
[ad_1] Although solid facts about Magellan’s life are limited, the narrative that often prevails is about his heroism. Diaz’s Magellan, on the other hand, takes an unflinching look at what we know about his treatment of his crew members aboard the Armada de Maluco, which included executing one of them for alleged sodomy and, as…
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a colonial narrative of the mountains.
[ad_1] Series: Open Knowledge Fellowship 2025 Show articles▼ Currently reading: #3: Untold Stories behind the making of Samuel Bourne’s ‘Picturesque’ Photographs of the Himalayas : a colonial narrative of the mountains. British photographer Samuel Bourne is celebrated for both his technical skills as well as his ‘adventurous outlook in seeking out suitably picturesque views to…
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Game Master Monday’s Cast Away, a love child of Actual Play …
[ad_1] There was a time when reality competition shows took over cable. Fascinating social experiments turned into entertainment, and the early 2000s lapped it up. Those competition shows captured the imagination of Grant Nordine, the producer for Game Master Monday and their now recurring live actual play Cast Away. The show uses the Afterthought Committee…
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The Ancient Tool Used in Japan to Strengthen Memory & Focus:…
[ad_1] William Gibson famously observed that the future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed. That line is often thought to have been inspired by Japan, which was already projecting a thoroughly futuristic image, at least in popular culture, by the time he made his debut with Neuromancer in 1984. But as anyone who’s spent enough…
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CAPC’s Most Popular Articles of 2025
[ad_1] In all, we published 85 articles in 2025 on Christ and Pop Culture. And in keeping with the finest CAPC tradition, we covered an wide array of subject matter, including music streaming services, the Super Bowl Halftime Show, werewolf movies, Rick and Morty, Star Wars, pro wrestling, Stranger Things, and much more. Needless to say, we’re proud of everything…
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How the 1973 oil crisis forced Nixon to rethink time
[ad_1] The president even urged Americans to lower their thermostats in homes, offices and factories by at least six degrees Fahrenheit. Anticipating a chilly response, Nixon tried to thaw the tension. “Incidentally, my doctor tells me that in a temperature of 66 to 68 degrees (18C to 20C), you’re really more healthy than when it’s…
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How the Homegrown ‘Young India’ Record Label Shaped India’s …
[ad_1] Series: Open Knowledge Fellowship 2025 Show articles▼ Currently reading: #4: How the Homegrown ‘Young India’ Record Label Shaped India’s Sound Recording Industry The homegrown record label, ‘Young India’ shaped the subcontinent’s sound recording industry at a pivotal moment in cultural history. Recording technology transformed the once-ephemeral nature of sound into tangible discs. Sound, in…