Nader Elhefnawy·May 29Why Do Adjuncts Put Up With Their Conditions?These days the unattractions of the adjunct professorship, and certainly teaching as an adjunct “full-time part-timer” in the way so often…
Nader Elhefnawy·May 29What’s That in Poor Years?We live in an exceedingly unequal society which has long shown the trend of its life to be toward more and not less inequality, all as…
Nader Elhefnawy·May 21The Privilege of Turning off Your TelescreenPeople love to talk about George Orwell. Far more people than have ever actually bothered to read Orwell, going by a certain poll of a few…
Nader Elhefnawy·May 21Why Isn’t Cyber-Security Fatigue a Household Term?It seems that the term “cybersecurity fatigue” has been in use for a decade, if not longer. However, it also seems that in all that time…
Nader Elhefnawy·May 18Why Don’t We Hear More Mainstream Criticism of Reality TV?The question that is the title of this post may strike some as odd. After all, does the reality TV genre not get subject to a lot of…
Nader Elhefnawy·May 18Is There a War on Independent Bloggers?Far from being a situation where those who “work hard” may reasonably hope to make steady progress, those who have been “independent”…
Nader Elhefnawy·Jun 3, 2025The Rise and Decline of the SupermodelThe claim that the institution of the movie star has faded away has now been heard for rather a long time (at least, insofar as we mean an…
Nader Elhefnawy·Jun 3, 2025Celebrity, Fantasy, IdentificationIn considering the idea of celebrity a while back I mentioned the view some have that the fascination with celebrity is, for some at least…
Nader Elhefnawy·May 30, 2025Why Are Pop Stars as Big as Ever When Other Celebrities Aren’t?Over the years I have written about the decline of celebrity, and seen this as partly a matter of broad social and technological…
Nader Elhefnawy·May 29, 2025Bond 26 Finally in Development? Some ThoughtsFor years now the press has buzzed about an upcoming “Bond 26” — almost entirely on the basis of no actual information, instead simply…