Rebel rousers.
| Publisher | Reason Foundation |
| Publication | Reason |
| Subject | Humanities |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0048-6906 |
| Issues per Year | 11 |
| Volume | v30 |
| Issue | n1 |
| Published | 1998-05-01 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Author | n/a | Nick Gillespie |
Why right- and left-wingers both hate advertising
If legislative politics makes for strange bedfellows, then cultural politics makes for the sort of interspecies couplings that warranted the death penalty in colonial America. Consider the recent convergence between right-wing and left-wing critics regarding motifs in popular culture in general and advertising in particular. For different - though ultimately related - reasons, both the right and the left decry the ubiquity of products and images tied to "rule breaking," "cultural rebels," and "revolution."
This surprising...
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