Podcast Episodes

Our Reality Star Overlords

Season 2 Episode 102

The upcoming elections are littered with former reality TV stars who have pivoted to politics -- from Fboy Island, The Hills, Teen Mom, and more. We …

2 months, 2 weeks ago

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Are We Doomed?

Season 2 Episode 101

No one wants to get married, and no one is having children. How can we make this women's fault? Jessa and Nico talk about the frustrating ways we dis…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

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Taste Will Save Us from AI

Season 2 Episode 100

Welcome to the 100th episode of The Culture We Deserve -- we really need to rethink our lives. The novel Shy Girl was recently pulled from publicatio…

3 months ago

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Revolutionary Nostalgia

Season 2 Episode 99

Daughter of two members of the Weather Underground Hope Reeves went to the New York Times to complain that the Oscar winning film One Battle After An…

3 months, 1 week ago

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The End of Lifestyle Feminism

Season 2 Episode 98

Back in the 2010s, instead of political progress we got role models, little girlboss avatars to root for. Their happiness, we were told, was our happ…

3 months, 1 week ago

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Who Killed the Media?

Season 2 Episode 97

With social media filled with AI-generated fake war videos and a war-hawk press eager for regime change and empire building, where does one turn? Jes…

3 months, 3 weeks ago

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Gilded Guilt

Season 2 Episode 96

Why are we so bad at criticizing or satirizing the wealthy? Is it because we think if we're nice to them we think they'll be less likely to kill us? …

4 months ago

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We Are All Tucker Carlson

Season 2 Episode 95

A new book about Tucker Carlson's life tracks how the conservative movement has cracked up over the past several decades, while also showing how one …

4 months ago

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The Money Runs Out

Season 2 Episode 94

Our major arts institutions are broke. The Met Opera has been reduced to begging for money from the Saudis, and meanwhile they can't sell out their t…

4 months, 2 weeks ago

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The End of American Freedom

Season 2 Episode 93

The American century is over, or so say the speakers at Davos. The United States has had hegemonic control over the rest of the world, its markets, i…

4 months, 3 weeks ago

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