Culturally Determined

By Aryeh Cohen-WadeSociety & Culture News News Commentary Politics

Culturally Determined episodes

April 18, 2018 Men and Pop Culture (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Miles Klee)
Miles: Some Rick and Morty superfans are getting the show wrong ... Do the show's characters ever learn a lesson? ... R&M creator Dan Harmon's strikingly different #MeToo moment ... How pop culture is consuming itself through sequels and reboots ... With nerd culture gone mainstream, whither the nerd? ... The many boyfriends of Elaine Benes ...
1 hr
April 18, 2018 Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Miles Klee
Miles: Some Rick and Morty superfans are getting the show wrong ... Do the show's characters ever learn a lesson? ... R&M creator Dan Harmon's strikingly different #MeToo moment ... How pop culture is consuming itself through sequels and reboots ... With nerd culture gone mainstream, whither the nerd? ... The many boyfriends of Elaine Benes ...
49 min
April 16, 2018 FOSTA, Sex Work, and the Internet (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Elizabeth Nolan Brown)
Explaining FOSTA, the new anti–sex trafficking law ... Could this be the beginning of the end of the open Internet? ... Elizabeth: FOSTA's sponsors are acting in bad faith ... The death of Backpage.com, where you could get a lawnmower or a sex worker ... How will the market for paid sex adapt? ... Elizabeth's lively appearance on Laura Ingraham's show ...
1 hr
April 16, 2018 Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Elizabeth Nolan Brown
Explaining FOSTA, the new anti–sex trafficking law ... Could this be the beginning of the end of the open Internet? ... Elizabeth: FOSTA's sponsors are acting in bad faith ... The death of Backpage.com, where you could get a lawnmower or a sex worker ... How will the market for paid sex adapt? ... Elizabeth's lively appearance on Laura Ingraham's show ...
28 min
April 11, 2018 Will the Golden Age of Television Endure? (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Sonny Bunch)
Keeping up in the age of Peak TV ... Will there ever be a “canon” of great television? ... How streaming has changed media consumption ... You can’t watch it all, so what’s worth watching? ... Sonny describes his ideal TV time capsule ...
1 hr
April 11, 2018 Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Sonny Bunch
Keeping up in the age of Peak TV ... Will there ever be a “canon” of great television? ... How streaming has changed media consumption ... You can’t watch it all, so what’s worth watching? ... Sonny describes his ideal TV time capsule ...
37 min
March 29, 2018 Pornography and the First Amendment (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Sarah Jones)
The Atlantic's controversial hiring of Kevin D. Williamson ... Why do NeverTrump writers keep getting jobs? ... The linked histories of pornography and the First Amendment ... Trump and Stormy Daniels, perfect foes ... The West Virginia teachers' strike and the future of the labor movement ... Sarah critiques critics of Twitter feminism (which might not exist) ...
1 hr
March 29, 2018 Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Sarah Jones
The Atlantic's controversial hiring of Kevin D. Williamson ... Why do NeverTrump writers keep getting jobs? ... The linked histories of pornography and the First Amendment ... Trump and Stormy Daniels, perfect foes ... The West Virginia teachers' strike and the future of the labor movement ... Sarah critiques critics of Twitter feminism (which might not exist) ...
40 min
March 14, 2018 The failing New York Times (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & David Klion)
How the New York Times failed in 2016... ... …and how it is failing in its Trump coverage ... The core problem with the NYT Opinion columnists ... Requiem for the political blogosphere ... David's critique of NYT Opinion under editor James Bennet ... Why there's no real threat to free speech on college campuses ... Aryeh: NYT Opinion needs to hire a Trump supporter ...
1 hr
March 14, 2018 Aryeh Cohen-Wade & David Klion
How the New York Times failed in 2016... ... …and how it is failing in its Trump coverage ... The core problem with the NYT Opinion columnists ... Requiem for the political blogosphere ... David's critique of NYT Opinion under editor James Bennet ... Why there's no real threat to free speech on college campuses ... Aryeh: NYT Opinion needs to hire a Trump supporter ...
1 hr 23 min