Girl Talk, aka Gregg Gillis, is a DJ who makes mash-ups using samples of popular American songs, and his fast-paced, fragmented, postmodern style of creating music has shaped a new perspective on copyrights...

I watched the Book of Eli over winter break, and the post-apocalyptic hero devises a way to listen to his iPod while the Mad-Max world around him burned in madness.  I’m not fond of the apocalyptic...

I was 18 years old when it came time to vote for Bush’s successor to the throne, so I could’ve voted.  I followed the election media frenzy. Still, I did not vote because I had the notion that no...

Sometimes I think I read the news every day because I’m waiting for a revolution somewhere.  So when considerable numbers of workers in France took to the streets shutting down petrol stations, port...

A study by the Kaiser Family Foundation stated that Americans between the age of eight and 18 are consuming seven and a half hours of media a day.  This equates to nearly 53 hours a week, more than a...

“We are people of this generation, bred in at least modest comfort, housed now in universities, looking uncomfortably to the world we inherit,” opens the Port Huron statement, the document which would...

This spring, I returned to Lowell, Mich., and wandered the woods behind my house as I have done for years, but something was wrong.  Instead of the green umbrellas of the mayapples and the elusive beauty...