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Michael Phelps, Celebrity, and Moral Hazard

        The Michael Phelps drug use photo brings u...

manners-and-morals
The Exemplary Butkus

By S. T. Karnick  The quarterbacks, running backs, and wide receivers tend to ge...

commerce
‘Dark Knight’ Tops Half-Billion Dollar Mark

The Dark Knight has become only the second film in history to top $500 million in U.S. mov...

genres
A Defense of Pop Fiction

Here's a preview of an article coming soon on another site. I've been working with the edi...

manners-and-morals
Free Will, Determinism, and Pop Culture

The central moral issue of the past century was whether a traditional (in fact, millennias...