For much of its history, the Super Bowl occupied a rare space in American life as a shared civic ritual. Even people who did not care about football often watched, drawn by commercials, spectacle, and the promise of communal experience.
Yet as American cu... See more
The Super Bowl as Cultural Text
How Commercials Became Mirrors of American Life
It has become America’s game. It is America’s super-most undeclared holiday. It’s Super Bowl Sunday.
The Super Bowl functions as a national ritual—one of the few remaining m... See more
Take a look at these three farmland transactions that transpired in November 2025.
153.34 acres in Moody County, South Dakota
Date: Nov. 20, 2025
Price: $18,000 per acre
Productivity Index (PI): 82.3
Over 150 acres in southeast South Dakota brought roughl... See more
The Reckoning: What the Panthers Ultimately Teach Us About Democracy
Editor’s Note
This final chapter does not ask whether the Black Panthers were right or wrong.
History has already complicated that question beyond usefulness.
Instead, it asks something ... See more
The Break: How Movements Are Fractured From the Inside
Editor’s Note
Parts 2 and 3 traced the external pressures placed on protest movements—state repression and media framing.
Part 4 turns inward.
This is the least comfortable chapter. It is also the mos... See more