The Muffled Thud of Fire in the Hole
Culture Index
Score Breakdown
Relevance
3/25
Freshness
21/25
Authority
18/20
Brand Signal
12/15
Depth
6/15
5-Axis Cultural Radar
From a 2014 article on The Dark Power of Fraternities by Caitlin Flanagan, this is one hell of an opening paragraph: One warm spring night in 2011, a young man named Travis Hughes stood on the back deck of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house at Marshall University, in West Virginia, and was struck by what seemed to him — under the influence of powerful inebriants, not least among them the clear e
