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The Biological Gig Economy

Season 2 Episode 77

When Cindy Bi hired a surrogate to carry her baby, she neglected to tell her that she had health issues that could put her life in danger. It turns o…

9 months, 2 weeks ago

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Revolution and Ruin Book Club: William Thackeray's The Luck of Barry Lyndon

When a man is down on his luck, what is he to do? His fortune squandered, his estate mishandled, his love unfaithful, Barry Lyndon goes to war, and t…

9 months, 3 weeks ago

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The Smithsonian is on Fire

Season 2 Episode 76

The dumbest culture war in history continues, as the Trump administration seeks to purify the national collection of knickknacks and souvenirs. And t…

9 months, 3 weeks ago

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Seeking Utopia

Season 2 Episode 75

What is behind the drive for small communities of like-minded people? The MAHA millionaire farm, the white nationalists in Arkansas, the makeshift Te…

9 months, 4 weeks ago

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Eugenics Season

Season 2 Episode 74

The fuss over Sydney Sweeney's jeans/genes ad, and there are those who accused her of "normalizing eugenics," misses an important point: we are alrea…

10 months ago

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Variety Hour (and Twenty Minutes)

Season 2 Episode 73

As we were recording between two long work trips and through various mishaps, this week Nico and Jessa just go through headlines and updates on previ…

10 months, 1 week ago

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Cancel Culture Is Over, If We Want It

Season 2 Episode 72

It's cancellation season again, although it's not really working the way it used to. Joey Swole, Sydney Sweeney, Anthony Fantano, a mother in New Yor…

10 months, 2 weeks ago

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We're Talking About the Christian Nationalists Again

Season 2 Episode 71

Following our earlier discussion of the documentary Apocalypse in the Tropics, Jessa and Nico get into the spread of Evangelicals in power -- not onl…

10 months, 3 weeks ago

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Revolution and Ruin Book Club: Honore de Balzac's Lost Illusions

Welcome to the creative economy, which is built to strip mine from your body and soul any glimmer of talent, skill, or genius you might possess and e…

11 months ago

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Video Killed the Journalist Star

Season 2 Episode 70

We are all pivoting to video. Podcasters, journalists, editors are getting out their ring lights and their botox and they are staring intently into t…

11 months ago

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