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Public Intellectual — 100 episodes

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Coming Soon: The Culture We Deserve

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No Modernism without Lesbians, with Dianna Souhami

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America's Reckoning in Afghanistan, with Roy Scranton

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FBoy Island is Incel Culture, with Cameron Steele

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When Even the Moon is Gender Critical: Neo-Pagans, Goddess Culture, and terfs with Ana Valens

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Who Gets to Tell Your Story, with Cameron Steele

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It Never Came Home: The Euros and Copa America, with Nicolás R Melo

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The Final Girlboss, with Cameron Steele

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All About Adichie, with Cameron Steele

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We Don't Deserve St. Vincent, with Zach Toman

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Re-Sentimentalizing the Family, with Cameron Steele

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Underground Railroad, or Your Trauma is My Entertainment, with Trevor Beaulieu

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What Is Going On In Colombia, with Nicolas R. Melo

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Beyond Cancel Culture, with Cameron Steele

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The Politics of Meat, with Alicia Kennedy

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Are the Straights OK? with Phoebe Maltz Bovy

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In Praise of Difficult Books, with Mauro Javier Cárdenas

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Disrupt Housing, with Diana Lind

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The Meaning of Nostalgia is a Disease, with Margaret Howie

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Baby Bust, with Dr. Shanna Swan

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The United States of Amazon, with Alec MacGillis

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The Notorious Ms. Highsmith, with Lucie Elven

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Define Diversity, with Russell Jacoby

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When Did the Internet Get Terrible, with Ana Valens

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Moral Insanity and Our Economic Crisis, with Pavlos Roufos

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The Good Girls, with Sonia Faleiro

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Our Age of Nostalgia, with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

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Did the Pandemic Erase the Progress of Feminism, with Angela McRobbie

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Promising Young Women Filmmakers, with Vincent Chabany-Douarre

30

The Economics of Anger, with Mark Blyth

31

What Is Art Even For, with Rita Felski

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Bonus Episode: What Do We Do with a Don Giovanni During #MeToo with Amber Fasquelle

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The Downward Spiral is a Solstice Album, with Adam Steiner

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America is Losing Its Mind. Again. with Chelsey Weber Smith

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Art Under Trump, with Allison Hewitt Ward

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What Happens to the Left Under a Centrist, with Natalie Wynn of Contrapoints

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A Gun for Every Girl, with Zach Toman

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Monetizing the Dead, with Claire Cronin

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The British Museum is Haunted, with Dan Hicks

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A Lady's Guide to Fascism, with Victoria de Grazia

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Re-Release: Beyond Pro-Choice and Pro-Life with Alissa Quart

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Pope Says Property is Theft, with Eugene McCarraher

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Living in Strange Times, with Darran Anderson

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Our Anxious Relationship to Stuff, with Jen Howard

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California Fires and California Dreams, with Mark Arax

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The Musician as Content Creator with Marianna Ritchey

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On Sourdough Starters and How Domesticity Became a Luxury, with Jaimee Edwards

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Extra: A Talk with a Covid Long Hauler, with Natalie Alford

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Preparing for the Post-Pandemic, with Cassie Thornton

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I Regret to Inform You We Are Discussing the Harper's Letter, with Elvis Bego

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The Rich Getting Richer, with Ashley Mears

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The Journalist as Moral Arbiter, with JoAnn Wypijewski

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The Bechdel Test Returns, with Vincent Chabany-Douarre

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Housing is a Public Health Issue, with Tara Raghuveer

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Re-Release: A Conversation with Brandon Scott, the Presumed Next Mayor of Baltimore

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The Feminist City (with Leslie Kern)

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The Relationship Between Disease and War, with Frank A Von Hippel

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Your Doctor is Going to Kill You, with Caren Beilin

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New Atheists, Flat Earth, and the History of Doubt (with Alec Ryrie)

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Reading The Topeka School (with Christopher Piatt)

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No NYTimes There Won't Be a Rona Baby Boom (with Maxine Eichner)

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Tiger King, A Morality Play (with Eileen G'Sell)

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Red State Culture (with Jason Pine)

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The Feminist Response (with Breanne Fahs)

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Deaths of Despair, with Anne Case

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How is Your Self-Isolation Going (with Jim Behrle)

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Pete Buttigieg is from the Suburbs (with Joe Kennedy)

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Bonus Episode: Sinead O'Connor is the Kassandra of Our Time, with Margaret Howie

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Twilight Moms and the Indignity of Female Desire (with Jennifer Hodgson)

70

Weinstein the Monster (with JoAnn Wypijewski)

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On Creepy Men (with Heidi Matthews)

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Writing from the Margins (with Susan Ellen Finlay)

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The American Story is a Story of Grievance (with John Biguenet)

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Social Capital, with Richard Davies

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You Can Talk to a Conservative Like a Normal Human Being (with Gerald Russello)

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The Most Important, Dangerous, Thrilling Year in Film (with Eileen Jones)

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Against Relentless Cheer (with Jim Behrle)

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Deprogramming Trump Voters, with Robert Jay Lifton

79

Facebook is Death (with Jacob Silverman)

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Listening to Politics, with Brandon Scott

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"Capitalizing on MeToo (with Laura La Rosa)"

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What is a Feminist Artist (with Jen May)

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Impossible Fathers (with Nara Milanich)

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The New Culture Wars (with Nathalie Olah)

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Why I Quit Writing (with Yasmin Nair)

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The Disappearance of the Working Class Journalist (with Justin Ward)

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Teaching Consent (with Laura Kipnis)

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The Feminist Bogeyman (with Breanna Fahs)

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The New Tarot (with Michelle Tea)

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Heterosexuality is a F**king Nightmare (with Indiana Seresin)

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Straight White Men (with Zak Mucha)

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Missing Dames (with Bruce Benderson)

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Queering the Military (with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore)

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Writing for Our Strange Times (with Mia Gallagher)

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The Woman Genius Problem (with Pamela Bannos)

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Welcome to the #Resistance (with Neal Pollack)

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Canonize Tori Amos (with Common Gore)

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The Forgotten Occult History of Art (with Padraic E Moore)

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Witchcraft Capitalism (with Katelan Foisy)

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Abolish Marriage (with Jessica Stites)