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Jason Tebbe

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  • Photograph of a dilapidated mall from the rear parking lot.

    Mallstalgia

    Once derided as cesspools of Reagan-era consumerist excess, the shopping mall somehow became an unlikely sort-of quasi-public space that is now disappearing.
    by Jason Tebbe via Tropics of Meta on November 29, 2021
  • An effigy of Richard Nixon with a distorted papier-mache head.

    The People’s Bicentennial Commission and the Spirit of (19)76

    The Left once tried to own the legacy of America’s Bicentennial, but ran into ideological and structural roadblocks all too familiar today.
    by Jason Tebbe via Tropics of Meta on July 26, 2021
  • Mark McGwire baseball card

    Neoliberalism with a Stick of Gum: The Meaning of the 1980s Baseball Card Boom

    Before beanie babies and Pogs, small rectangles of cardboard were the errant investments of a stratifying American society.
    by Jason Tebbe via Tropics of Meta on March 12, 2021
  • Where Were You in ‘73?

    In the turbulent 1970s, the balm of pop cultural nostalgia set the tone for today's political reaction.
    by Jason Tebbe via Tropics of Meta on July 16, 2020
  • The 'Ground Zero Mosque' Controversy Was a Harbinger of Our Times

    A preview of Trumpism in 2010 protests against a proposed mosque in lower Manhattan.
    by Jason Tebbe via Tropics of Meta on March 21, 2018
  • Twenty-First Century Victorians

    The nineteenth-century bourgeoisie used morality to assert class dominance — something elites still do today.
    by Jason Tebbe via Jacobin on October 31, 2016
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