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The Culture We Deserve — 119 episodes

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Title
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Men's Media

2

Why Are All of Our Communists Millionaires?

3

AI Losers

4

Our Reality Star Overlords

5

Are We Doomed?

6

Taste Will Save Us from AI

7

Revolutionary Nostalgia

8

The End of Lifestyle Feminism

9

Who Killed the Media?

10

Gilded Guilt

11

We Are All Tucker Carlson

12

The Money Runs Out

13

The End of American Freedom

14

Revolution and Ruin: Gustave Flaubert's Sentimental Education

15

Suicidal Empathy

16

Die, DEI

17

Predictions for an Unpredictable 2026

18

Obligatory Best and Worst of the Year Episode

19

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

20

The Art Goes Home

21

United Ireland (Take Two)

22

The Crisis of Darkness

23

Revolution and Ruin: Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons

24

Ladies Ruin Everything

25

Copaganda Returns

26

American Heroes

27

Trickle Down Morality

28

The American Uncanny on Film

29

Revolution and Ruin: Charlotte Bronte's Shirley

30

Exploit or Be Exploited

31

Recovered Panic

32

The Charlie Kirk Effect

33

The Biological Gig Economy

34

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

35

The Smithsonian is on Fire

36

Seeking Utopia

37

Eugenics Season

38

Variety Hour (and Twenty Minutes)

39

Cancel Culture Is Over, If We Want It

40

We're Talking About the Christian Nationalists Again

41

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

42

Video Killed the Journalist Star

43

Taking Up Arms

44

Touristification

45

The Antichrist Has Risen

46

The Corrosion of Character

47

Revolution and Ruin Book Club: George Sand's Indiana

48

A Lack of Vision

49

Do I Have to Have Empathy for Men?

50

How to Do Good

51

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

52

Panic Merchants

53

The Wellness Grift

54

Fear of a Hunk Planet

55

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

56

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

57

The Art Gallery in the Mall of America

58

Make America Go Away

59

Recovering America

60

America's Religious Revival

61

Your Culture Is Our Content

62

The Ozempic Economy

63

It's the Annual Lazy Oscars Episode!

64

What Is Wrong With Men

65

250 Years of This, Seven Months Left to Go

66

we welcome our new antiwoke cultural overlords

67

dead geniuses

68

The Brutalist is the Future of Film (Derogatory)

69

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

70

we will find out if things can get worse

71

best and worst of the year

72

the class war is a shooting war

73

no second acts in american life

74

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

75

What Is Working Class Culture

76

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

77

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

78

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

79

every day horrors

80

welcome to the feel bad show

81

AI Bot Me

82

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

83

Going to a Town That Has Already Been Burned Down

84

The New Cold Wars

85

Obamacore and the End of Woke

86

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

87

Mr Walz Goes to Washington

88

Battle of the Sexy

89

What Does a Woman Symbolize?

90

JD Vance and the Perils of Authenticity

91

God Doesn't Call the Qualified

92

Elites Against Elites

93

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

94

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

95

Publishing Books is a Mistake

96

The Artistic Age of Decline

97

She's Giving Mother: On Our Collective Mommy Issues

98

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

99

A Culture of Overcorrection

100

America, Abroad: Everyone Thinks They Are Anthony Bourdain

101

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

102

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

103

The Conspiracy of DEI

104

Whither Art School

105

Nonfiction Overload

106

The State of the Wife

107

The Oscars: The Opposite of Content!

108

America the Uncanny

109

A Short History of the Holocaust Film

110

Is Your Grief Loud Enough?

111

Fade Out

112

My Own Private Colombia

113

Do You Guys Ever Think About Dying?

114

A New Media Struggling to Be Born

115

Sample - Four Years of Marvel vs Scorsese Discourse

116

A Fifth of Mahler, Part Three

117

A Fifth of Mahler, Part Two

118

A Fifth of Mahler, Part One

119

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