Critical Babe Theory

CBT welcomes in the new year with guest Dhananjay Jagannathan and a super-stoney discussion of what Christ really meant when he said he came with the sword (the Christian mandate for socialism, duh). We break down Phil Christman’s book Why Christians Should be Leftists, the semiotics of woke house style, the aesthetics needed to reach Christian moms and how Christ is a little too radical for the NYC petite bourgeoisie.

Also discussed: how sexy we like our thought leaders (very), Hilbert’s paradox as metaphor for the Trinity, the ethics of astrology, and much more. Plus Francesca asks the most serious question of all: can I really consider myself a Christian if I spend hella $$$ on nail art?

Read more of his work on Dhananjay's substack, Cultured Opinion: https://culturedopinion.substack.com

And his essay on the sins of private property:

https://comment.org/on-privacy-and-exclusion/

Guest Dhananjay Jagannathan returns to discuss his time as a professor at Columbia University post-October 7th and the ensuing protests and encampments. We discuss how the elite institutions of higher education are eating themselves alive—like it's 1968 all over again.

Also discussed: the lost pleasures of MapQuest, how Columbia University loves its grass (more than its students), and that Francesca never wears her glasses and thus lives in blissful ignorance.

This week's guest Dhananjay Jagannathan, essayist and Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College, comes on to discuss the value of education today—is it for the one percent? Is it for spiritual edification? Is it to perform well at cocktail parties?

Read more on Dhananjay's substack, Cultured Opinion: https://culturedopinion.substack.com

Atlantic article about how students don't read anymore: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/11/the-elite-college-students-who-cant-read-books/679945/

Francesca and guest host Lauren Bille discuss single motherhood (and why you shouldn't be one), the tepid response to pronatalism on the right, dating football players and much more.

You open your eyes at dawn and turn in the cool bedsheets. From outside, you can hear the California High-Speed Rail as it comes to a screeching halt. Your government issued Meta glasses deliver a Page Six alert: recently disgraced influencer has thrown herself into the tracks. You open your window, and an Amazon drone flies in with your reasonably priced prescription of Ozempic, manufactured in the Purdue low-orbit space factory. Your micro-ear piece pings: it's Ezra Klein, reminding you that you're happy now.

Friend-of-the-pod Brendan joins to mansplain Derek Thompson & Ezra Klein's Abundance to us.

Sarah is back from London with a theory about polyamory, and Francesca decides she no longer cares about Ezra Klein. We discuss Trump’s White House renovations, the looming war with Venezuela, the NYC mayoral race, the "ceasefire," and much more.

We discuss Francesca’s upcoming play and talk theater with director Molly Shayna Cohen—producing indie theater, being shameless, standing ovations, and falling in love with your co-star. Plus Sarah has an anger attack at the Vatican gift shop.

Come see Molly & Francesca's scandalous new play ESCALATION TIME in NYC Nov 7-23! Use code CBT50 for 50% all GA tickets.

Follow Molly on Instagram @mollyshaynacohen

https://www.mollyshaynacohen.com/ 

Discussed: 

The Playwright vs. the Theater Victor I. Cazares has stopped taking their HIV meds — until the NY Theatre Workshop calls for a cease-fire in Gaza 

We discuss Francesca’s upcoming play and talk theater with director Molly Shayna Cohen—producing indie theater, being shameless, standing ovations, and falling in love with your co-star. Plus Sarah has an anger attack at the Vatican gift shop.

Come see Molly & Francesca's scandalous new play ESCALATION TIME in NYC Nov 7-23!

Use code CBT50 for 50% all GA tickets.

Follow Molly on Instagram @mollyshaynacohen

https://www.mollyshaynacohen.com/ 

Discussed: 

The Playwright vs. the Theater Victor I. Cazares has stopped taking their HIV meds — until the NY Theatre Workshop calls for a cease-fire in Gaza 

We answer all your burning questions about the NYC mayoral race. Why did Zohran eat a burrito on the subway? Would NYC be safer under Sharia law? And was Francesca once a Cuomosexual? And we endorse Zohran, duh.

Come see Francesca's scandalous new play in NYC Nov 7-23! Use code CBT50 for 50% all GA tickets.

NYC Find Your Poll Site and see your ballot

Discussed:

The Goon Squad

The Feminist by Tony Tulathimutte

A Reporter Misstook ‘Bill DeBlasio’ for Bill de Blasio

Why Biden's White House Press Secretary is Leaving the Democratic Party

Insane White House 'Major Events' Page

We answer all your burning questions about the NYC mayoral race. Why did Zohran eat a burrito on the subway? Would NYC be safer under Sharia law? And was Francesca once a Cuomosexual?

Come see Francesca's scandalous new play in NYC Nov 7-23! Use code CBT50 for 50% all GA tickets.

NYC Find Your Poll Site and see your ballot

Discussed:

The Goon Squad

The Feminist by Tony Tulathimutte

A Reporter Misstook ‘Bill DeBlasio’ for Bill de Blasio

Why Biden's White House Press Secretary is Leaving the Democratic Party

Insane White House 'Major Events' Page