Browsing: Trading Cards

Renata Hollis, an eighth-grade civics teacher in a mobile classroom outside of Columbus, Ohio, lays out a pile of glossy…

For many years, inquiring about women’s soccer in a card shop felt almost like an apology. Owners would shrug. Perhaps…

Eight men are seated around a folding table in a beige room on the second floor of a medium-security facility…

These days, the laminated reading posters peeling at the corners and the new arrivals shelf are not the first things…

I laughed when I first noticed a pile of theory trading cards on a friend’s kitchen table in Lahore. They…

You can practically feel it when you walk into any humanities seminar on a Wednesday afternoon: the meticulous consideration of…

The smell is the first thing you notice when you enter the house of someone who has 100,000 trading cards.…

I first learned about David Gauntlett’s Theory Trading Cards while watching a graduate student shuffle them like a poker hand…

Even though you wouldn’t know it from the national headlines, there is a subtle cleverness to what is going on…

At the center of the trading card boom is a minor irony that no one in the industry seems to…