Culturally Determined

By Aryeh Cohen-Wade

Aryeh Cohen-Wade speaks with a variety of guests about culture, politics, and American society in general.

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Culturally Determined episodes:

February 17, 2021 Fake Accounts, with Lauren Oyler
Lauren's new novel, Fake Accounts ... Autofiction in the disinformation age ... Why the novel's narrator is unnamed ... Berlin, the city of expats hanging out ... The uses and abuses of a fragmentary narrative ... Twitter is made out of people ... When a book reviewer publishes her first novel ...
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1h 7min
February 15, 2021 Why Are We Still on Twitter? with Phoebe Maltz Bovy
Phoebe's new position as a senior editor at The Signal ... "Cleansing your timeline" vs. "doomscrolling" ... The agony and the ecstasy of Twitter ... Twitter's insane risk-reward ratio ... How Twitter makes unpopular ideas seem popular ... With Trump banned, will Twitter return to being a niche site for weirdos? ... Aryeh's twisted fascination with MAGA and QAnon Twitter bios ... Would we all be better off if social media didn't exist? ...
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1h 16min
January 27, 2021 QAnon as Symptom, with Daniel Bessner
Daniel's analysis of QAnon and the storming of the Capitol ... Is QAnon a religious cult? An alternative reality game run amok? ... Cultural vs. material explanations for Trump's rise ... Did the rioters get close to actually accomplishing anything? ... America's civic religion and why the left is unlikely to win ... Is Trump the worst president in American history? ... Aryeh praises and critiques Mickey Kaus ... The rise and fall of intellectual contrarianism ...
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1h 22min
January 13, 2021 Arranged Marriages for Millennials, with Justin Murphy
Justin's new company that arranges marriages for Millennials and Zoomers ... Do city men and country women want to be forced to wed? ... The ideal eligible NYC bachelor: tall and anti-Trump ... Justin: I quit academia because it was "satanic" ... Justin's podcast, Chat for God ...
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January 10, 2021 We're Storming the Capitol, It's a Revolution! with William R. Black
Reflections on a bizarre week in America ... Protest, riot, insurrection, coup—or something stupider? ... The postmodern politics of symbols and cosplay ... Aryeh: Blaming this on "white supremacy" is both inaccurate and bad politics ... The link between anti-Semitism and Flat Earthers ... Impeachment? Resignation and pardon? A return to normalcy? ... Bill worries about historiography in the digital realm after Trump's Twitter banning ... What will Trump's post-presidency look like? ...
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1h 5min
December 31, 2020 Materially Determined, with Tommy Craggs
Tommy's recent essay, "What’s the Matter With Cultural Politics?" ... Police defunding and the case against "backlash" ... Can the austerity stalemate be broken? ... How the debate over trans rights is and is not like the debate over gay marriage ... Tommy: Racial and gender identity affiliation can lead to labor consciousness ... Tommy praises the Oakland activists who seized an empty house ...
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1h 7min
December 24, 2020 The End of Takes, with Meghan Daum
Why Meghan is retiring from writing think pieces ... The devolution of the take, from op-eds to tweets ... The virtues of not knowing what to think ... Aryeh: The "Dr. Jill Biden" debate shows that the Trump era is ending ... The problems of too much speech ... Should we be optimistic about the future of the discourse? ...
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1h 5min
December 17, 2020 Speech and Censorship on YouTube, with Douglas Lain
The mysterious removal of Doug's YouTube video on "the Great Reset" ... Does YouTube have an anti–Alex Jones algorithm? ... Content moderation in an age of infinite content ... What videos should YouTube be taking down? ... Aryeh: The problem isn't people being silenced, it's too many people talking ... How YouTube helps spread conspiracy theories ... Should leftists reject Big Tech? ... Doug on the contemporary relevance of Christopher Lasch ...
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1h 24min
December 08, 2020 The Particulars of Peter, with Kelly Conaboy
Kelly's new book about her dog, The Particulars of Peter ... Everything you always wanted to know about Peter the dog ... Kelly: Dogs should be able to talk for 25 minutes a day ... The profound mysteries of the dog-human relationship ... "Doggo," "dog mom," and the cultural shift around pets ... Would you let your pet become a social media star? ... Dogs and the specter of death ...
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46min
December 02, 2020 Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste, with Ryan Cooper
Reviewing Obama's new memoir, A Promised Land ... Ryan excoriates Obama's response to the financial crisis ... Should Obama have gone much harder on the banks? ... Aryeh: Obama is an institutionalist to his core ... Was Obama just the wrong man for the job? ... Why the GOP gets away with radicalism but Democrats don't ... Is Biden's cabinet a team of nobodies? ... The mysterious nomination of Neera Tanden to OMB ... Aryeh: Maybe it's time to trust Biden's political instincts ...
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1h 14min

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