University of Southern California

Man's Best 'Bot

Foucault's Turntable

Hip-Hop Scholars Bumrush the Academy

Who Owns the Constitution?

With Republicans in power, equal protection under the laws will continue to diminish

Daddy's Girl

Millionaire Bruce McMahan loved his daughter so much, he married her.

Let's All Get Drunk Together

It's for our city's own cultural good, a new (only slightly sluggish) academic study asserts

Other People's Property

Academics Square Off Against Hollywood on Internet Content

Hop on Pop

Lear, Seinfeld, and the Dumbing Down of the Academy

Letters

Lear, Seinfeld, and the Dumbing Down of the Academy

Free Radical

Superhacker Kevin Mitnick: Menace to Fear or Rogue to Love?

The Accidental Operative

Richard Helms’s Afghani Niece Leads Corps of Taliban Reps

New Thai Cinema Hits the Road

Mysterious Objects and Black Tigers

Gotta Go

Laili Helms, Other Taliban Reps Stop Talking

All as It Had Been

Hollywood Revises History, Joins the Good Fight

Cold Comfort

An Interview With T.C. Boyle

Keepin' It Unreal

$elling the Myth of Bla¢k Male Violen¢e, Long Past Its Expiration Date

Truth and Consequences

Reporter's Suit Against Murdoch Still Standing

TV Funhouse

Rooming With Dawson, Screech, and the 90210 Crowd

The New Apprenticeship

Learning the real-world lessons of the jazz musician's life in a university setting

The Rules of Redemption

How could 'Tookie' Williams have convinced the Governor?

Your Late Fees, Their Millions

Can't pay your student loan on time? The fat cats at Sallie Mae are so glad to hear it.

Complex Persecution

A Long Island Family's Nightmare Struggle With Porn, Pedophilia, and Public Hysteria

USC's Topless Professor

Feminist Diana York Blaine bares her boobs and talks gender equality

Free Amazon Kindles For Everyone!

via ereaderchat.com​The Amazon Kindle is kind of amazing. At the risk of sounding cheesy, you can get everything on there! Books, magazines, blogs, etc; all there on your shiny white screen! CNN explained yesterday why Amazon should just start giving the things away for free and hints that Jef ... More >>

USC 'Roof Sex' Perpetrator Suspended From His Fine, Upstanding Fraternity

​Did you hear about the USC college students caught having sex on the rooftop of Waite Phillips Hall, a venerable university building? Someone stayed around to take photos (a lot of photos) amid all the shock and horror and how dare they?! On the roof of a building, in front of God and everyon ... More >>

Why Do Mexican Farm Workers Take a Shit in the Fields?

And why aren’t more Mexis part of the middle class?