Culture Vulture

By Aarti Iyer

About Culture Vulture

Aarti Iyer is a Columbia College junior majoring in creative writing. She is the editor-in-chief of The Fed. Culture Vulture runs alternate Fridays.

Articles

Face(book) the consequences

By Aarti Iyer
Apr 22 08:36 pm ET

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

By Aarti Iyer
Apr 8 10:57 pm ET

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

By Aarti Iyer
Mar 25 08:48 pm ET

There’s no “next” button in real life

Misery loves cinematic company

By Aarti Iyer
Mar 4 08:13 pm ET

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

By Aarti Iyer
Feb 18 08:55 pm ET

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

Political malaise, pop culture craze

By Aarti Iyer
Jan 21 11:32 pm ET

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

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