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.

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.

No winners in this roulette

There’s no “next” button in real life

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.

Fashion to die for

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

A retrospective reel

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

Political malaise, pop culture craze

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