Culturally Determined

By Aryeh Cohen-WadeSociety & Culture News News Commentary Politics

Culturally Determined episodes

March 09, 2020 A Critique of Dating Apps, with Default Friend
Default Friend's critique of dating apps ... Bumble's false aura of female empowerment ... An infinite number of alternative romantic partners/Netflix shows ... App dating vs. IRL dating ... The phony promise of the "best" mate for you ... Girlbossism, gender differences, and sexual shame ...
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42 min
March 09, 2020 A Critique of Dating Apps (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Default Friend)
Default Friend's critique of dating apps ... Bumble's false aura of female empowerment ... An infinite number of alternative romantic partners/Netflix shows ... App dating vs. IRL dating ... The phony promise of the "best" mate for you ... Girlbossism, gender differences, and sexual shame ...
42 min
February 26, 2020 How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women, with Rachel Vorona Cote
Rachel's new book, Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today ... Rachel on writing very frankly about her personal life ... The origin and definition of "too much" ... Is the book a defense of too muchness? ... Should women be treated more like men? Men more like women? Neither? ... Embracing your emotions vs. detaching yourself from them ... Trump as the epitome of "too much" ... The constraints binding female politicians ...
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1 hr 24 min
February 26, 2020 How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Rachel Vorona Cote)
Rachel's new book, Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today ... Rachel on writing very frankly about her personal life ... The origin and definition of "too much" ... Is the book a defense of too muchness? ... Should women be treated more like men? Men more like women? Neither? ... Embracing your emotions vs. detaching yourself from them ... Trump as the epitome of "too much" ... The constraints binding female politicians ...
1 hr 24 min
February 14, 2020 This Is Not a Conspiracy Theory, with Kirby Ferguson
Why it took eight years for Kirby to finish This Is Not a Conspiracy Theory ... Kirby: "Conspiracies are logistically impossible" ... Bernie fans get conspiratorial after the botched Iowa caucuses ... Donald Trump, the Conspiracist-in-Chief ... QAnon and conspiracism as lifestyle ... Will Epstein's death be the JFK assassination of our era? ... What should you do if a loved one is falling into conspiracy theories? ...
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55 min
February 14, 2020 This Is Not a Conspiracy Theory (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Kirby Ferguson)
Why it took eight years for Kirby to finish This Is Not a Conspiracy Theory ... Kirby: "Conspiracies are logistically impossible" ... Bernie fans get conspiratorial after the botched Iowa caucuses ... Donald Trump, the Conspiracist-in-Chief ... QAnon and conspiracism as lifestyle ... Will Epstein's death be the JFK assassination of our era? ... What should you do if a loved one is falling into conspiracy theories? ...
55 min
February 05, 2020 Tim Allen, Jordan Peterson, and Friendly Aliens, with William R. Black
When Tim Allen proposed an ideology he called "masculinism" ... The 1950s sitcom as America's mythic Eden ... How Christian churches are grappling with Jordan Peterson ... Bill: There is always anxiety that churches are too feminized ... "Storming Area 51" and the idea that aliens will be our friends ... The strange fight over cultural appropriation and the word "y'all" ... What happened to entertainment that's fun for the whole family? ...
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1 hr 16 min
February 05, 2020 Tim Allen, Jordan Peterson, and Friendly Aliens (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & William R. Black)
When Tim Allen proposed an ideology he called "masculinism" ... The 1950s sitcom as America's mythic Eden ... How Christian churches are grappling with Jordan Peterson ... Bill: There is always anxiety that churches are too feminized ... "Storming Area 51" and the idea that aliens will be our friends ... The strange fight over cultural appropriation and the word "y'all" ... What happened to entertainment that's fun for the whole family? ...
1 hr 16 min
January 28, 2020 Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America, with James Poniewozik
James's new book on Trump and television, Audience of One ... When TV was about the "least objectionable programming" ... The 1980s, when cable fractured TV and Trump started to rise ... Trump's postmodern transformation into a signifier of wealth ... How David Letterman and Trump used each other ... Aryeh recalls his days watching The Apprentice ... James: The Trump campaign was "like a plane that crashes every day" ... The master of TV becomes TV's slave ... What did Trump understand about TV that Hillary didn't? ...
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1 hr 10 min
January 28, 2020 Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & James Poniewozik)
James's new book on Trump and television, Audience of One ... When TV was about the "least objectionable programming" ... The 1980s, when cable fractured TV and Trump started to rise ... Trump's postmodern transformation into a signifier of wealth ... How David Letterman and Trump used each other ... Aryeh recalls his days watching The Apprentice ... James: The Trump campaign was "like a plane that crashes every day" ... The master of TV becomes TV's slave ... What did Trump understand about TV that Hillary didn't? ...
1 hr 10 min