Category: Culture

It all started in Mexico City. My unbridled excitement for this year’s World Cup had carried over from the last one, and I arrived with memories still fresh of what many consider one of the greatest finals in tournament history. ...

In an episode of The Postrider Roundup that may or may not have been released by the time you read this, Politics Editor Lars Emerson and I discuss how we’ve entered a “post-policy” era of politics where “vibes” now reign ...

If you’re reading this, there’s a very good chance that, last Sunday, you watched Super Bowl LX. But unless you’re a Seahawks fan or a dyed-in-the-wool Patriots hater such as myself, there’s also a good chance you remember little of ...

As with my songs of the year list, I ended up with so many albums I loved this year that I felt the need to make a list of 25 instead of my typical 20. I won’t claim it’s the ...

As with my songs of the year list, I ended up with so many albums I loved this year that I felt the need to make a list of 25 instead of my typical 20. I won’t claim it’s the ...

There was so much good stuff that I expanded my songs and albums list from 20 to 25 – a nice bit of symmetry given the year, and a sign, perhaps, that I am not as washed up as a ...

Ranking the best songs and albums of a given year has become something of a tradition here at The Postrider and, truth be told, when I started thinking about writing as a career when I was in high school, it’s ...

Michael Lovito highlights a notable shift in popular culture away from villainizing conspiracy theorists and towards increasingly justified paranoia, and how this connects to contemporary American politics. Follow Postrider Podcasts on Spotify Follow Postrider Podcasts on Apple Podcasts Follow Postrider ...

Following the release of Wale’s most recent album, Everything Is a Lot, to a wave of critical praise, it’s worth spotlighting a skill that has never received enough attention throughout his career: his uncanny ability to identify emerging talent early, ...

If there’s one person who’s dominated my headspace throughout the existence of The Postrider, but who I somehow have never written at length about, it’s Tim Robinson. A sketch comedian who began the 2010s with a somewhat unremarkable run as ...

“I’m not too much, you just give too little” is a quote from Rochelle Jordan’s song “Doing it Too,” which encapsulates her Album of the Year caliber project Through the Wall. Jordan has been in the industry for a long ...

Last week the off-beat, on-beat wordsmith Bruiser Wolf from Detroit, Michigan released a project with Harry Fraud called Made by Dope. While Bruiser has been in the underground rap scene for quite some time, he made some of his first ...

Nathan Fielder doesn’t just court controversy – he dives headlong into it, daring audiences not to cringe, not to be outraged. On Nathan for You, this mostly manifested in him taking advantage of the politeness of small business owners, who ...

So unless you were hiding under a proverbial rock from the sports world you probably heard about the epic game one matchup in the Eastern Conference Finals between the Pacers and Knicks. It had peaks and valleys and a particularly ...

During Donald Trump’s first presidency, one of the most recycled op-ed templates was something along the lines of “Stop saying this isn’t America,” which wasn’t a response to the president so much as a response to those who found Trump’s ...

Perhaps no series better represents Warner Bros. Discovery’s ongoing fall from grace than The Curious Case from Natalia Grace. At first blush, the true story told by these documentaries is a compelling and tragic one: a Ukrainian orphan with dwarfism ...

As someone who writes about both politics and pop culture, I often strive to find the connections between the two – the areas where politics does indeed seem to be downstream from culture, and the way that relationship feels like ...

Going into this year’s albums of the year list, I knew two things for certain: I wanted a list of at least 20, but I could only name five off the top of my head that were absolute locks to ...

Going into this year’s albums of the year list, I knew two things for certain: I wanted a list of at least 20, but I could only name five off the top of my head that were absolute locks to ...

It happens to me almost every year – I fret that I’ve only been listening to the same five artists on repeat, and that I won’t be able to put together another Top Songs or Albums of the Year list. ...