The Best Articles in Culture
The most useful articles and videos in Culture from around the web, curated by thought leaders and our community.
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Top 5 Culture Articles
At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved in Culture by Refind users in 2024 so far.
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Why we all need subtitles now
It's not you — the dialogue in TV and movies has gotten harder to hear.
why Japan's internet is weirdly designed
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Art Critic Slams Hirst
Art critic, Robert Hughes slams artist Damien Hirst in excerpts from a hard to find documentary not on YouTube. Video includes choice arguments in a newspape...
A fact-checked debate about legal weed
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Megan Campisi and Pen-Pen Chen: The myth behind the Chinese zodiac
What's your sign? In Western astrology, it's a constellation determined by when your birthday falls in the calendar. But according to the Chinese zodiac (生肖), it's your shuxiang, meaning the animal…
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New to Culture? These articles make an excellent introduction.
What is ‘Gothic’? It’s more complicated than you think.
Hidden in the architecture of some of the world’s most famous buildings is a cultural exchange between Europe and the Middle East.
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How to come up with a unique Halloween costume without spending a ton of money
Tap your creativity (and closet) for the best Halloween costume.
How to deconstruct the world
Don’t believe everything you hear, read and watch. To puncture received ideas about culture, start thinking like Jacques Derrida
«Anything that has been constructed can be deconstructed. This is true for objects, but is also true for concepts, such as God, justice and truth.»
Trending
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Dark Matter | Hazlitt
For twenty years, PostSecret has broadcast suburban America’s hidden truths—and revealed the limits of limitless disclosure.
Jonathan Haidt: Smartphones Rewired Childhood. Here’s How to Fix It.
Phones have made kids sedentary, solitary, anxious, and depressed. But, says the author and psychologist, we can reverse the damage.
The “Multi-Multi-Multi-Million-Dollar” Art Fraud That Shook the World
Norval Morrisseau was one of the most famous Indigenous artists anywhere. Then the fakes of his works surfaced—and kept coming
Is the World Enough?
“It is sweeping, magisterial works such as Scarcity that are responsible for determining what that canon includes. The curiosity I was left with at the end testifies to Scarcity’s richness, as well as to its limits.”
Narcissism for All
Forty-five years ago, Christopher Lasch identified what has become a defining feature of modern activism—“the ever-present, neurotic need to be recognized and affirmed.”
Short Articles
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The State of the Culture, 2024
Or a glimpse into post-entertainment society (it's not pretty)
Great management and leadership books for the technical track
Monday, February 12, 2024In tech, we're fortunate to have separate management and technical tracks, though it's still underdeveloped. However, the path you take isn't very clear, it's not broadly…
The Hidden Powers of Everyday Ritual
Psychological anthropologist Bradd Shore explores the subtle but powerful influence of rituals on shaping our lives.
The world wants your kids to buy stuff. Here’s how to help them be less materialistic.
Raising kids in our modern consumer culture is challenging. These tips can help.
The Year That A.I. Came for Culture
The events of 2023 showed that A.I. doesn’t need to be that good in order to do damage.
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles in Culture.
A Single Small Map Is Enough For A Lifetime
What if this bog-standard corner of England is actually full of adventure, nature, wildness, surprises, silence, perspective — if only I bothered to go out and look?
Inside the Biggest Art Fraud in History
A decades-long forgery scheme ensnared Canada’s most famous Indigenous artist, a rock musician turned sleuth and several top museums. Here's how investigators unraveled the incredible scam
The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood
For a little over a decade, we have been raising children in an environment that is hostile to human development. We need to change that now.
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