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The Culture We Deserve
Hosted by Jessa Crispin, The Culture We Deserve covers the state of the arts.
Episodes
- The Culture We Deserve
A Culture of Overcorrection
Jessa and Nico return from their week off to discover nothing has really changed. We're still talking about campus protests (instead of what they are…
- The Culture We Deserve
America, Abroad: Everyone Thinks They Are Anthony Bourdain
Americans are being warned by their government that before they leave the country they need to check their luggage for any "stray ammo" or weaponry that they…
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Garland's Gettysburg, Wow: Americans Fantasize About Civil War
Civil War is a hit! Both blue states and red states agree that watching a movie that lets you fantasize about the half of the country you don't agree with…
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Our Bodies: Abortion Law, Repro Health, and Other Crimes
The Dept of Health and Human Services ruled that hospitals could no longer do pelvic exams on unconscious women without their consent, in the year of 2024…
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The Conspiracy of DEI
DEI is the new Critical Race Theory is the new Affirmative Action -- a way to distract you from the way finance is ruining everything. Jessa and Nico get into…
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Whither Art School
America's oldest art school, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, is closing its degreed programs after a perilous drop in enrollment. It is just one of the…
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Nonfiction Overload
Every week there's a new docuseries where the victims of horrific violence or exploitation have to get in front of the camera and tell us the bad things that…
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The State of the Wife
Are the tradwives coming to take your husbands? Page Six printed an essay by a woman whose partner got addicted to depictions of effortless domesticity and…
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The Oscars: The Opposite of Content!
The viewership of the Oscars is less than half of what it was a decade ago, and yet the award ceremony dominates celebrity media more than ever. The films…
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America the Uncanny
Hey, hey you. No no no, act cool. Listen, I have discovered some pretty potent information about the dealings of our government in…
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A Short History of the Holocaust Film
The Oscars love the Holocaust. Jessa and Nico look back at the short history of the Oscar bait Holocaust film, from Sophie's Choice to Schindler's List to Zone…
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Is Your Grief Loud Enough?
Families of the victims of mass shootings are participating in The Shotline, where AI recreates their loved ones' voices to plea for political action. How…
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Fade Out
Has TikTok ruined music? With its users flooding concert venues to meow at the artists, with the "oh no" song playing in the background of videos of puppies…
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My Own Private Colombia
With the release of "Griselda," a Narcos-adjacent Netflix show that reboots Scarface as a woman as if this were the Ghostbusters, Jessa and Nico look at the…
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Do You Guys Ever Think About Dying?
America has an arrested development problem. But while men are castigated regularly for not meeting the markers of basic adulthood, the feminine, the girly…
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A New Media Struggling to Be Born
Media continues its decline with layoffs and closures. The only winners appear to be the tech intermediaries like Meta, Amazon, and Google. (X continues to…
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Sample - Four Years of Marvel vs Scorsese Discourse
As we head into our end of the year break, here is a sample of our bonus episode, a discussion of what the last four years of Marvel Cinematic Universe vs…
The Culture We DeserveA Fifth of Mahler, Part Three
Jessa Crispin speaks with two working artists, Philadelphia Orchestra bassoonist Daniel Matsukawa and mezzo-soprano singer Amber Fasquelle, about the sometimes…
The Culture We DeserveA Fifth of Mahler, Part Two
We tend to think of the art world as being more progressive than the rest of society -- mostly because we confuse libertine with progressive -- but actually…
The Culture We DeserveA Fifth of Mahler, Part One
Over the next three episodes, we'll be exploring the state of classical music. Times are fraught! Attendance is down, institutions are broke (and in some cases…
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Coming in November 2023: The Culture We Deserve podcast! . Hosted by Jessa Crispin, produced by Zach Toman. http://theculturewedeserve.substack.com