The 2 Best Public Intellectual Podcast Episodes
1) Why I Quit Writing (with Yasmin Nair)
Jessa speaks with cultural critic, academic, and leftist thinker Yasmin Nair about the exploitative, dumbed down, and click-baity hot take culture in which we all consume. They discuss trying to write...Show More
2) Witchcraft Capitalism (with Katelan Foisy)
There is a strong market for witchcraft these days. As practices such as astrology, tarot, crystals, and herbal medicine enter the mainstream, the use of witchcraft to sell stuff has increased dramati...Show More
3) Coming Soon: The Culture We Deserve
From the creators of Public Intellectual: a new weekly podcast exploring the state of our cultural institutions, norms, and failures. It's called The Culture We Deserve. Because it is. Hosted by Jess...Show More
4) No Modernism without Lesbians, with Dianna Souhami
Dianna Souhami has worked for decades as a chronicler of sexual subcultures in early 20th century Europe, and finally, she is allowed to deliver her thesis: without this network of lesbians, the parti...Show More
5) America's Reckoning in Afghanistan, with Roy Scranton
This week's episode is hosted by Cameron Steele. The flag waving and feminist arguments for more war and scapegoating of service members prompted by America's withdrawal from Afghanistan proves we sti...Show More
6) FBoy Island is Incel Culture, with Cameron Steele
Between Love Island, Love is Blind, FBoy Island, Sexy Beasts, Too Hot to Handle etc, we sure do love watching hot straight people be tortured for the possibility of love. Cameron and Jessa discuss why...Show More
7) When Even the Moon is Gender Critical: Neo-Pagans, Goddess Culture, and terfs with Ana Valens
After a couple thousand years of Christianity, some populations who had been suffering under Yahweh decided to give some other gods and goddesses a try. But did they create systems that were just as e...Show More
8) Who Gets to Tell Your Story, with Cameron Steele
Amanda Knox is back in the news, as a film "inspired by" the story of her being accused of murder is in the theaters. Knox has compared telling stories of other people's lives to "cultural appropriati...Show More
9) It Never Came Home: The Euros and Copa America, with Nicolás R Melo
Both the Euros and Copa America saw the anticipated winners humiliated in their own homes. It was nice, a treat. Former soccer player and activist Nicolás R Melo revisits the highs and lows of the pan...Show More
10) The Final Girlboss, with Cameron Steele
People keep holding funerals for the Girlboss, that figure of narcissism and disgrace, but aren't we all girlbosses now? Don't we all have to be to survive in late capitalism? Cameron Steele and Jessa...Show More