Aarti Iyer

Face(book) the consequences

What we write and what we don’t write, how we represent ourselves and how we don’t represent ourselves, become our community’s standards.

By Aarti Iyer | Apr 22 08:36 pm ET

Beauties and their beasts

Celebrities’ high-profile moral failures can indeed be useful tools for spreading awareness, and are important vehicles for defining our own ideals, but sometimes it’s just as instructive to view these failures for what they are.

By Aarti Iyer | Apr 8 10:57 pm ET

No winners in this roulette

There’s no “next” button in real life

By Aarti Iyer | Mar 25 08:48 pm ET

Misery loves cinematic company

The more we see graphic depictions of misery, poverty, and child abuse as entertainment rather than representative of real social issues, the less we are able to actively fight them.

By Aarti Iyer | Mar 4 08:13 pm ET

Fashion to die for

Suicide is an issue that matters, but unfortunately it gets less attention from the health world than proper sneezing etiquette.

By Aarti Iyer | Feb 18 08:55 pm ET

A retrospective reel

We no longer value the promises of the future as we do the fantasies of the past.

By Aarti Iyer | Feb 4 09:10 pm ET

Culture Vulture

By Aarti Iyer

Political malaise, pop culture craze

Aarti Iyer on why it’s OK that we care more about Tiger than Tehran.

By Aarti Iyer | Jan 21 11:32 pm ET

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