Isabella Ehring

Beauty, surveillance and the new female performance

The age old question: who are you when no one is watching? But in 2025, who isn’t watching?  The sinister sense that we are being...

Vengeance in America

According to Donald Trump’s niece, Mary L. Trump, the “malignantly dysfunctional” Trump family bred high-functioning sociopaths. Basic human empathy was met with taunting at...

False leisure in the age of hustle 

Without an investment and return, true leisure is useless in a capitalist mode of production. Most Americans unknowingly monitor their own relaxation time to...

America’s gun fetish

The gun is a cardinal piece of the American psyche. Organizations like InterArms, the National Rifle Association and the gun lobby have taken the...

Maladaptive daydreaming and the harm in fantasizing

Walter Mitty is a jaunty World War I pilot commandeering a hydroplane with a faithful crew. He is a seasoned neurosurgeon with a slew...

Miss America as wartime propaganda

On Sept. 7, 1968, inside Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey, the 41st annual Miss America Pageant unfolded. In its ordinary, glitzy fashion,...

Decentering men

The alleged glory days of a woman align with the tautness of her skin and the scrawniness of her frame. Forbidden aging strips her...

The endangered library

The sentient local librarian is no match for the almighty ChatGPT. Leafing through books on a library’s shelves to gather research paper source materials...

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