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Essays examining the role of shame as an American cultural practice and how public shaming enforces conformity and group coherence. On any given day in America�

A look at how fatness became a cultural stigma in the United States.

Gillian White argues that the poetry wars among critics and practitioners are shaped by “lyric shame”—an unspoken but pervasive embarrassment over what po

The United States today is hopelessly polarized; the political Right and Left have hardened into rigid and deeply antagonistic camps, preventing any sort of pro

This is a true story of the Americans of Guam. Abandoned by their government even before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. That abandonment opened the door f