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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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