CULTURE FILES // EREC SMITH // DITCHING OUR DISCOURSES OF DOOM

Academic and rhetoric specialist Eric Smith is known for pushing back against victim mindset. In this essay, he reminds us that we all face challenges, but they don’t determine our fate.

Art & Ideas, Culture Files, Beautiful Future, BF - ResilienceHeather BlakesleeSeptember 14, 20254.4, Erec Smith

CULTURE FILES // A Brief History of Beach Lingo

6.5, Culture FilesHeather BlakesleeSeptember 9, 2025Excerpt

CULTURE FILES // Greeking Out

6.4, Culture FilesHeather BlakesleeJune 8, 2025Excerpt

CULTURE FILES // Who's a Hypocrite Now?

Culture Files, 6.3Heather BlakesleeFebruary 27, 2025Excerpt, Lauren Earline Leonard

CULTURE FILES // Grass Houses

Culture Files, 6.3Heather BlakesleeFebruary 27, 2025Excerpt, Iona Clark

CULTURE FILES // We All Live in Glass Houses Now

Culture Files, 6.3Heather BlakesleeFebruary 27, 2025Excerpt, Matt Moskal

CULTURE FILES // Love Wins

Culture Files, 6.2Heather BlakesleeNovember 11, 2024Excerpt, Ginger Rudolph

CULTURE FILES // Fooling Around

Culture Files, 6.2Heather BlakesleeNovember 11, 2024Excerpt, Heather Shayne Blakeslee

CULTURE FILES // ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN SCHOOLS

Culture FilesHeather BlakesleeMay 25, 2024Heather Shayne Blakeslee, 5.4, Excerpt

CULTURE FILES // STRENGTH IN COMMUNITY A WORLD APART

Culture FilesHeather BlakesleeSeptember 24, 2023Heather Shayne Blakeslee, 5.2, Excerpt

CULTURE FILES // PROCESS: PATIENCE, TRUST, AND OPENNESS

Culture FilesHeather BlakesleeSeptember 24, 2023Heather Shayne Blakeslee, 5.2, Excerpt

CULTURE FILES // EREC SMITH ON DITCHING OUR DISCOURSES OF DOOM

Art & Ideas, Culture FilesHeather BlakesleeMay 5, 20234.4, Erec Smith

CULTURE FILES // No Gods, No Masters

Our new media landscape is the wild west. Should we really be pinning a sheriff’s badge on anyone?

by Walter Foley • images by Ford Fischer