TCH SOC HUM NA Nader Elhefnawy Social Withdrawal as Social Protest Considering the issue of social withdrawal I have generally found myself looking at reports on the matter from or about Japan, and…
SCI ECO NA Nader Elhefnawy · Predict Earth4All Deep Dive Paper #8 and the RethinkX Vision of Sustainability The Earth4All Project was announced at the United Nations’ Framework Convention on Climate Change back in November 2020. Led by teams at…
ECO MDA NA Nader Elhefnawy Is Box Office Failure Getting Boring? When back in early March box office-watchers were realizing that, after its sensational opening weekend, Ant-Man 3’s ticket sales were…
ECO HUM NA Nader Elhefnawy Why 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…
HUM SOC NA Nader Elhefnawy Why 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…
TCH SOC HUM NA Nader Elhefnawy What’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…
MDA NA Nader Elhefnawy The 2023 Box Office in Review Back in 2023, looking at the prior year’s track record with qualified successes such as Venom and No Time to Die, and the indisputable…
HUM GEN NA Nader Elhefnawy · Predict The Densha Otoko Controversy of Two Decades Ago, and the Culture Wars of Tomorrow Back in 2004 there were (we are given to understand) a series of postings in an Internet forum by an individual telling the (supposedly)…
ECO TCH SOC NA Nader Elhefnawy What Are Social Graces? I recently found it surprisingly difficult to find a convenient definition of “social graces” online to which to refer in this item. The…
MDA TCH HUM NA Nader Elhefnawy How Would Dostoyevsky’s Underground Man Be Living Today? Reading one’s way through the classics of nineteenth century literature one can scarcely avoid Fyodor Dostoyevsky — and while he is…
MDA NA Nader Elhefnawy Aquaman 2 vs. Captain Marvel 2 at the Box Office In a month of global release Aquaman 2 has collected almost $400 million at the worldwide box office.
SCI MDA NA Nader Elhefnawy Comparing and Contrasting Box Office Underperformance: Black Panther 2 vs. Atom-Man 3 When looking over Black Panther 2’s box office numbers back in the autumn I argued that there was a case for regarding the film as a…
SOC NA Nader Elhefnawy The Word “Dotard” and Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe I recall years ago hearing how the use of the word “dotard” in an official statement of the North Korean government led to a certain amount…