# Culture

## [‘Love Is Blind’ and the Atomization of Finding a Mate](/content/2024/03/05/love-is-blind-and-the-atomization-of-finding-a-mate/index.html)

Our dating lives have become more atomized, excluding the social capital from friends and family that has traditionally benefitted courtship.

## [‘My Dear Yeast’ – An Interview with Poet Melanie Hyo-In Han](/content/2024/02/20/my-dear-yeast-interview-with-melanie-hyo-in-han/index.html)

Poet Melanie Hyo-In Han discusses the importance of honesty and recognition of loss within her identity as a third culture kid.

## [What ‘Beowulf’ Says About the American Incarceration System](/content/2024/01/25/what-beowulf-says-about-the-american-incarceration-system/index.html)

America’s mass incarceration system is built on Beowulf’s same mistaken view for how we ought to address “evil” in society.

## [History Isn’t Made by Great Men](/content/2021/08/12/tolstoy-war-and-peace-history-great-men-napoleon/index.html)

War and Peace is rooted in Tolstoy’s longing for the infinite and universal. Yet, it reveals our need to focus on the concrete and mundane.

## [Garry Gergich the Stoic](/content/2021/06/28/garry-gergich-stoic-stoicism-parks-and-rec-ron-swanson/index.html)

Parks and Rec expounds a great deal upon the teachings of Stoicism, but it is Garry Gergich—not Ron Swanson—who embodies the Stoic ideals.

## [Consecrated Waiting Rooms](/content/2021/04/19/sacred-spaces-consecrated-waiting-rooms/index.html)

Whether we are religious or claim no sense of the spiritual, sacred spaces help us to better confront the transient nature of existence.

## [Letters to You](/content/2020/05/07/letters-to-you-korean-american-identity/index.html)

In this epistolary, Melanie Han reflects on her experiences with racism, intergenerational family dynamics, and tensions surrounding identity.

## [Existentialism in Children’s Film](/content/2020/05/06/existentialism-childrens-film-batman-begins-lego-movie-babe/index.html)

Children’s films tend to emphasize the role of destiny or chance, but existential themes can be found in a few that highlight the importance of…