In the first part of a seven-part limited series, we examine the four main ways we use "culture," which may be the worst word in the English language The Welsh literary critic and cultural theorist Raymond Williams battled Nazis during World War II as a tank commander, but his lifelong| Culture: An Owner's Manual
If culture describes the arbitrary aspects of life, conventions explain why communities repeatedly make the same arbitrary choices over so many alternatives Last time we noted that culture describes the arbitrary choices of human life — i.e. behaviors where alternatives could serve the same purpose. But this fact is confusing| Culture: An Owner's Manual