Culturally Determined

By Aryeh Cohen-WadeSociety & Culture News News Commentary Politics

Culturally Determined episodes

June 20, 2019 Death and Mourning Online, with Rachel Vorona Cote
Rachel's essay on her mother's death, "The Fraught Culture of Online Mourning" ... Aryeh recalls mourning his father in the pre–social media era ... A moment when language fails ... Is it possible to talk about death with sincerity on Twitter? ... The many (often gendered) Victorian rituals of mourning ... Rachel's forthcoming book, Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today ... Do you want to be memorialized for eternity on Facebook? ...
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1 hr 14 min
June 12, 2019 Dignity, with Chris Arnade
Chris's new book, Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America ... Why politics and Trump are mostly absent from the book ... McDonald's, the community center for people on the margins ... Successful immigrant communities like the Somalis in Lewiston, Maine ... "This is my home" and forms of meaning you can't measure ... Why dignity is the book's central theme ... Chris's thoughts on universal basic income ... Why GOP Sen. Tom Cotton blurbed the book ...
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1 hr 10 min
June 12, 2019 Dignity (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Chris Arnade)
Chris's new book, Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America ... Why politics and Trump are mostly absent from the book ... McDonald's, the community center for people on the margins ... Successful immigrant communities like the Somalis in Lewiston, Maine ... "This is my home" and forms of meaning you can't measure ... Why dignity is the book's central theme ... Chris's thoughts on universal basic income ... Why GOP Sen. Tom Cotton blurbed the book ...
1 hr 10 min
June 12, 2019 Dignity (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Chris Arnade)
Chris's new book, Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America ... Why politics and Trump are mostly absent from the book ... McDonald's, the community center for people on the margins ... Successful immigrant communities like the Somalis in Lewiston, Maine ... "This is my home" and forms of meaning you can't measure ... Why dignity is the book's central theme ... Chris's thoughts on universal basic income ... Why GOP Sen. Tom Cotton blurbed the book ...
1 hr
June 02, 2019 Satanic Ritual Abuse Panic (and Disney), with Sarah Marshall
Remembering the Satanic ritual abuse panic of the 1980s ... How the McMartin case launched the panic ... Sarah: Recovered memory therapy created the idea of Satanic ritual abuse ... Why hasn't there been a large-scale reckoning with the panic? ... Contemporary resonances: witch hunts and moral panics ... Sarah visits Disney World and thinks about desire ... Why are there so many absent mothers in the Disney canon? ...
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1 hr 26 min
May 20, 2019 End of Thrones, with Michael Sweeney
The controversial finale of Game of Thrones ... Would Dany have been a good queen? ... Why many female fans felt so betrayed ... Was the story just a big red herring? ... Aryeh: The second part of the episode felt like fan fiction ... The fates of Jon, Arya, and Sansa ... Michael explains how the coffee cup blooper happened ... The end of a TV era ...
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1 hr 22 min
May 20, 2019 End of Thrones (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Michael Sweeney)
The controversial finale of Game of Thrones ... Would Dany have been a good queen? ... Why many female fans felt so betrayed ... Was the story just a big red herring? ... Aryeh: The second part of the episode felt like fan fiction ... The fates of Jon, Arya, and Sansa ... Michael explains how the coffee cup blooper happened ... The end of a TV era ...
1 hr 22 min
May 20, 2019 End of Thrones (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Michael Sweeney)
The controversial finale of Game of Thrones ... Would Dany have been a good queen? ... Why many female fans felt so betrayed ... Was the story just a big red herring? ... Aryeh: The second part of the episode felt like fan fiction ... The fates of Jon, Arya, and Sansa ... Michael explains how the coffee cup blooper happened ... The end of a TV era ...
1 hr
May 15, 2019 Don't Be Yourself, with Leah Finnegan
How Leah realized that she should not "be herself" ... The mental health benefits of getting a dog ... Leah: We must bring back Kierkegaardian irony ... Leah on the scourge of "urgent earnestness" ... Is it ethical to not read the news? ... Leah's reflections on being "a year Twitter sober" ... Lessons from the great "horseface" controversy of 2018 ...
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39 min
May 02, 2019 Avengers: Endgame, with Milton Lawson
Reviewing Avengers: Endgame ... Spoilers! The movie's first wild twist ... Is time travel a cop out? ... The first big character death ... Milton: Comic book fans have matured ... Assessing the giant climactic fight scene ... The aftermath: selfishness and selflessness ... Appraising the Marvel Cinematic Universe as a whole ...
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1 hr 21 min