Year in Review
‘Long Live’ (Anna and Allison’s Version)
AM: “Long live all the mountains we moved.” ASP: “I’ve had the time of my life fighting dragons with you.”
The Academic Policing of Academics on Policing
In 2022, professors Christopher Lewis and Adaner Usmani argued that to reduce violent crime, the U.S. needs to drastically shorten its prison sentences — and increase its police force by half a million officers. Their ideas soon become a flashpoint of online discourse.
Arts Vanity: (I Smell a Rat) Why Geronimo Stilton Is A Classic
Another feature of Geronimo Stilton is its characteristically cheesy (haha) mouse puns.
Top 10 Films of 2023
The Crimson Arts Board presents its film favorites of 2023, from "Red, White & Royal Blue" to "Killers of the Flower Moon."
Top 10 TV Shows of 2023
The Crimson Arts Board presents its television favorites of 2023, from "Succession" to "Jury Duty."
Top 10 Cultural Moments of 2023
The Crimson Arts Board presents its favorite cultural moments of 2023, from "Barbenheimer" to the "Renaissance World Tour."
Arts Vanity: Items On My Harvard-issue Bookshelf and their Friend Archetype
Though it’s only seven panels of wood haphazardly stapled, glued, taped, and otherwise forced together, the Harvard-issue bookshelf may be one of the greatest cultural phenomena of our lifetime.
Arts Vanity: The Perfect Moment for Every Song from my Summer 2023 Playlist
This feels like a good starting point. It’s been the spring, summer, and fall of “Tití Me Pregunto.” Please, everyone, stop in your tracks and play it on full blast wherever you are in order to secure a “Tití Me Pregunto” winter. I’ll be honest, it’s no “Yo Perreo Sola,” but nothing gets the people going like this song (sorry, “N*ggas in Paris”) — even if they speak absolutely zero words of Spanish.
Arts Vanity: The Steps to Writing Your Final Paper About a Movie
The options are endless, but I find myself frequently going for the glimmering idea on the hill: Why not write about a movie?
Arts Vanity: What Your Favorite Song Length Says About You: A Musical Montage
Welcome. Have a seat! Given that my tenure as music executive soon begins, it is now my time to judge you on the most important minutia of the musical world — song length — and tell you what this means about your worth as a person. Let’s begin.
Arts Vanity: Rereading is Cool
Even though I loved these books, they had failed me… they failed to be new.
Arts Vanity: Four Historical Moments that Should Have Been Creep-ified
Four historical moments that I think would’ve benefited from Radiohead's “Creep” playing in the background.
Arts Vanity: The Art of the Perfect Plane Film
A film must be perfectly curated to be chosen 30,000 feet in the air.
