Public Intellectual

Jessa speaks with dear friend and returning guest Jennifer Porto about happiness — whether it exists, how social media tries to take it away from us, and whether happiness creates complacency.

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Astrology is booming, and commodified within an inch of its life, so now feels like the perfect time to speak with Amelia Quint about the current state of Astrology and how things are changing now that it has entered the mainstream. 

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Jessa Crispin contemplates the role of the writer in the age of hot takes, constant opinion, and explainers.

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Jessa and special guest Margaret Howie discuss the latest developments in the Epstein scandal, all of the married men who have been caught in his company, and the wives that stand by them.

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Jessa speaks with author Nancy L Green about the limits of transnationalism, the language of the expat vs the migrant vs the immigrant, and who gets to count as a valuable citizen in troubled times.

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Jessa speaks with Mikita Brottman, author of An Unexplained Death, about the new "true crime" wave and what it says about its mostly female audience.

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Eli Meyerhoff ("Beyond Education") delves into the many -- many -- scandals rocking higher education these days and sees the foundational problems underneath. Why do we prize college education so highly? What has devoting years of our lives and tens (hundreds) of thousands of debt done for us? Will the Democratic promise of free school do anything, or will it simply trap future generations in, or outside of, elitist power structures?

Legendary artist, professor, and writer (These Bodies That Were Not Ours, Field Guide for Female Interrogators) Coco Fusco and Jessa Crispin discuss recent controversies in the art world about money and representation.

Leigh Goodmark ("Decriminalize Domestic Violence") and Jessa Crispin dig into the --**~~problematic~~**-- relationships of Big Little Lies and the troubling way it represents domestic violence and rape. Also, if you replaced Nicole Kidman with a porcelain doll at any point, would anyone notice? Support this podcast at http://patreon.com/publicintellectual

Lotta Meri Pirita Tenhunen is an activist in Madrid currently helping to organize and participate in the mass occupation of bank owned property in Spain. She has written beautifully on the difficulty of collaborative projects like this that go against social conditioning and the way that she was raised.

Jessa sits down with her in Madrid to discuss taking direct action to society's problem but also, how to make a life meaningful.

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