Red Scare Canon — Cultural References from the Subreddit

Seville (place) 1 — City in Spain featured in a 1970s National Geographic photograph.

Orcs (concept) 1 — Tolkien's fictional creatures used as metaphor for a world where humanity's better nature is forgotten and everything is...

Jnco Jeans (concept) 1 — 1990s fashion brand referenced as shorthand for unfashionable appearance in critique of vanity standards.

artificial super-intelligence (concept) 1 — Concept discussed by tech workers who believe it's imminent and potentially apocalyptic, yet take minimal action to prev...

Walter Lippmann (person) 1 — Writer quoted in 1914 discussing civilization's complexity and the disruption of human relations and traditional authori...

Eddie Bauer (place) 1 — Clothing brand mentioned as part of Boston's androgynous fashion staples, particularly fleece vests

Kristina Milnor (person) 1 — Scholar who coined the term 'hypermasculine space, built to speak to and about men alone' used in Sopranos analysis

Other Men's Wives: Domesticity and Display in Vitruvius' de Architectura (book) 1 — 2008 scholarly work by Kristina Milnor discussing hypermasculine spaces, cited in analysis of The Sopranos

Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 (book) 1 — Shakespeare poem analyzed by John Doebler for its compass symbolism representing eternal love through the perfect circle

John Doebler (person) 1 — Shakespeare scholar who wrote about the compass and circle symbolism in Sonnet 116 representing eternal love

NBA Finals (concept) 1 — Basketball championship event mentioned as context for a story about attending a CEO's funeral

British Commonwealth (concept) 1 — Political association of former British Empire territories discussed in relation to countries leaving and royal represen...

Wake Up (album) 1 — Song by Arcade Fire referenced as something contemporary Gen Z listeners would find amusing or dated.

Moranbong Band (person) 1 — North Korean musical group mentioned in context of bassist Jon Hye Ryon being possibly the coolest woman in the country.

Jon Hye Ryon (person) 1 — Bassist for North Korea's Moranbong Band described as possibly the coolest woman in the entire nation.

Agrabah (place) 1 — Fictional kingdom from Disney's Aladdin that Republican primary voters expressed support for bombing in a 2015 poll

Public Policy Polling (place) 1 — Polling organization that conducted a 2015 survey revealing Republican voters' support for bombing fictional Agrabah

Peter Higgs (person) 1 — Physicist who stated that he couldn't conduct his groundbreaking research in today's academic system

Publish or Perish (concept) 1 — Academic pressure system criticized for turning research into productivist, metric-driven commodity production

Michael Heizer (person) 1 — Contemporary artist known for monumental excavations and constructions that explore positive/negative space and the subl...

Eric Trump (person) 1 — Son of Donald Trump whose childhood job was fast-forwarding through boring movie parts for his father

Bones (person) 1 — Rapper who created a concept mixtape about Columbine that scared people at a party

Transformer (album) 1 — Influential Lou Reed solo album cited as inspiring an entire generation

Lewis Strauss (person) 1 — AEC chairman portrayed by Robert Downey Jr. in Oppenheimer who opposed the physicist

Harry S. Truman (person) 1 — US President described as seeing through Oppenheimer's self-flagellation about the atomic bomb

Endeavour (film) 1 — A detective television series featuring the 'sensitive young poetic man' archetype that has largely disappeared from con...

New Brunswick (place) 1 — A Canadian province described as a 'literal medieval fief' controlled by the Irving family through media, oil, and lumbe...

Irving family (person) 1 — A powerful Canadian business dynasty that controls New Brunswick through monopolies on media, oil, and lumber, with the ...

Believer (album) 1 — A song by John Maus shared in a post about running out of gas on the east side.

WW1 Christmas Truce (concept) 1 — A historical event of World War I used as a metaphor for the positive international interactions happening on the Chines...

Fearing the Black Body (book) 1 — A book by black feminist author Sabrina Strings about standards of women's bodies and racial differences.

Sabrina Strings (person) 1 — Black feminist author of 'Fearing the Black Body' who writes about racialized body standards.

White Feminism (concept) 1 — A form of feminism criticized for universalizing white female experiences and fragility while claiming to support women ...

Intersectionalism (concept) 1 — A framework for understanding how different forms of oppression intersect, which critics argue liberal feminists fail to...

Girl Pictures (album) 1 — A photography series (1997-2002) by Justine Kurland using large format photography to capture landscapes.

Guam (place) 1 — A U.S. overseas territory considered as a potential tropical paradise destination for drifting and escaping mainland lif...

Saipan (place) 1 — A U.S. overseas territory in the Pacific considered as a potential tropical escape destination.

US Virgin Islands (place) 1 — A U.S. overseas territory considered as a tropical destination for those seeking to escape conventional life.

Cognitive Sovereignty (concept) 1 — The principle that individuals should maintain control over their own cognitive processes rather than offloading them to...

Zygmunt Bauman (person) 1 — A theorist referenced in cultural theory discussions as part of an intellectual progression from Bauman to Jameson to Fi...

John Searle (person) 1 — A UC-Berkeley philosophy professor who compared landlord treatment to racial oppression and was later stripped of his ti...

UC-Berkeley (place) 1 — University where philosophy professor John Searle taught and was later stripped of his title for sexual harassment.

True Detective Season 1 (film) 1 — HBO crime drama praised for its beautiful writing and gritty cinematography, featuring the character Rust as protagonist

Effy Stonem (person) 1 — Character referenced in a dismissive critique of a creative writing teacher's trauma-focused short story

Street Fighter (film) 1 — Video game referenced in an anecdote about losing money while playing against a roommate who was simultaneously bragging...

Jake and Amir (film) 1 — Comedy web series that the poster remembers as hilarious and watches when depressed to feel innocent

Prisoners (film) 1 — Denis Villeneuve film described as a straightforward mid-budget thriller about child abduction without high concepts or ...

Johann Johannson (person) 1 — Composer who created an excellent score for the film Prisoners

Antoine Fuqua (person) 1 — Director who was attached to direct Prisoners before Denis Villeneuve

Bryan Singer (person) 1 — Director who was attached to direct Prisoners before Denis Villeneuve