Robin Hershkowitz, Ph.D.

Culture Writing: March


After 50 Years of Hip-Hop, It’s Time to Legalize the Idea at Its Core

Can a Movie Both Cause Harm and Have Merit? Reckoning with My Love for The Whale

Meet the Superusers Behind IMDb, the Internet’s Favorite Movie Site

The Battle for the Soul of Buy Nothing

The rise of the scented-candle industrial complex

In a Famed Kenyan Game Park, the Animals Are Giving Up

BookTok is Good, Actually: On the Undersung Joys of a Vast and Multifarious Platform

Is Everything an MLM?

Madonna’s New Face Is a Brilliant Provocation

Violent Delights

The Star Essay

Toward a unified theory of “millennial cringe”