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The Culture We Deserve — 129 episodes

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1

The Films that Define the US

2

The Beautiful Game

3

Jackass: Can a Man Do Anything Without It Becoming a Statement About Masculinity?

4

The Language of Emergency

5

The Politics of Dignity

6

Are People Lonely or Just Alone?

7

The Pope Declares Holy War Against the Robots

8

How to Be an Anti-Authoritarianism Grifter

9

Let's All Go to Church

10

The Most Beautiful Job in the World

11

Men's Media

12

Why Are All of Our Communists Millionaires?

13

AI Losers

14

Our Reality Star Overlords

15

Are We Doomed?

16

Taste Will Save Us from AI

17

Revolutionary Nostalgia

18

The End of Lifestyle Feminism

19

Who Killed the Media?

20

Gilded Guilt

21

We Are All Tucker Carlson

22

The Money Runs Out

23

The End of American Freedom

24

Revolution and Ruin: Gustave Flaubert's Sentimental Education

25

Suicidal Empathy

26

Die, DEI

27

Predictions for an Unpredictable 2026

28

Obligatory Best and Worst of the Year Episode

29

Revolution and Ruin: George Eliot's Felix Holt: The Radical

30

The Art Goes Home

31

United Ireland (Take Two)

32

The Crisis of Darkness

33

Revolution and Ruin: Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons

34

Ladies Ruin Everything

35

Copaganda Returns

36

American Heroes

37

Trickle Down Morality

38

The American Uncanny on Film

39

Revolution and Ruin: Charlotte Bronte's Shirley

40

Exploit or Be Exploited

41

Recovered Panic

42

The Charlie Kirk Effect

43

The Biological Gig Economy

44

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

45

The Smithsonian is on Fire

46

Seeking Utopia

47

Eugenics Season

48

Variety Hour (and Twenty Minutes)

49

Cancel Culture Is Over, If We Want It

50

We're Talking About the Christian Nationalists Again

51

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

52

Video Killed the Journalist Star

53

Taking Up Arms

54

Touristification

55

The Antichrist Has Risen

56

The Corrosion of Character

57

Revolution and Ruin Book Club: George Sand's Indiana

58

A Lack of Vision

59

Do I Have to Have Empathy for Men?

60

How to Do Good

61

Revolution and Ruin Book Club: Stendhal's The Red and the Black

62

Panic Merchants

63

The Wellness Grift

64

Fear of a Hunk Planet

65

An atheist and a recovering Christian walk into the Pope's funeral

66

Revolution and Ruin Book Club: Mary Shelley's The Last Man

67

The Art Gallery in the Mall of America

68

Make America Go Away

69

Recovering America

70

America's Religious Revival

71

Your Culture Is Our Content

72

The Ozempic Economy

73

It's the Annual Lazy Oscars Episode!

74

What Is Wrong With Men

75

250 Years of This, Seven Months Left to Go

76

we welcome our new antiwoke cultural overlords

77

dead geniuses

78

The Brutalist is the Future of Film (Derogatory)

79

would you help me die?: death influencers and euthanasia immersion

80

we will find out if things can get worse

81

best and worst of the year

82

the class war is a shooting war

83

no second acts in american life

84

bad dads: from joe rogan to cormac mccarthy to javier milei

85

What Is Working Class Culture

86

sore winners: what trump supporters and harris endorsers have in common

87

There is a Trump Wicker Man in an Empty Lot in Kensington Philadelphia

88

who you vote for is private, but whether you vote is public

89

every day horrors

90

welcome to the feel bad show

91

AI Bot Me

92

Eclipse Season: Olivia Nuzzi, Mark Robinson, and Other Moral Dilemmas

93

Going to a Town That Has Already Been Burned Down

94

The New Cold Wars

95

Obamacore and the End of Woke

96

The Means of Overproduction: Mr Beast, TikTok War Crimes, and Elon Musk Doing Coups

97

Mr Walz Goes to Washington

98

Battle of the Sexy

99

What Does a Woman Symbolize?

100

JD Vance and the Perils of Authenticity

101

God Doesn't Call the Qualified

102

Elites Against Elites

103

Retire, B----: Gerontocracy and the Scramble for Power

104

The No-Kid Zone: Lowered Birth Rates and Growing Hostility to Children

105

Publishing Books is a Mistake

106

The Artistic Age of Decline

107

She's Giving Mother: On Our Collective Mommy Issues

108

The Agony of Fandom: Klopp's Reign Ends and Liverpool Continues On

109

A Culture of Overcorrection

110

America, Abroad: Everyone Thinks They Are Anthony Bourdain

111

Garland's Gettysburg, Wow: Americans Fantasize About Civil War

112

Our Bodies: Abortion Law, Repro Health, and Other Crimes

113

The Conspiracy of DEI

114

Whither Art School

115

Nonfiction Overload

116

The State of the Wife

117

The Oscars: The Opposite of Content!

118

America the Uncanny

119

A Short History of the Holocaust Film

120

Is Your Grief Loud Enough?

121

Fade Out

122

My Own Private Colombia

123

Do You Guys Ever Think About Dying?

124

A New Media Struggling to Be Born

125

Sample - Four Years of Marvel vs Scorsese Discourse

126

A Fifth of Mahler, Part Three

127

A Fifth of Mahler, Part Two

128

A Fifth of Mahler, Part One

129

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