Culture Study Podcast
1) How the Manosphere Fuels Climate Change Denial
What does masculinity have to do with climate change denial? F-ing everything! Daniel Penny, host of the new Drilled podcast Carbon Bros, joins me to answer all of your questions about how the Manosph...Show More
2) Let's Talk About Baseball Culture!!!
FIRST OFF — PLEASE TAKE OUR MEMBERSHIP SURVEY!! The podcast only works because of your questions (and episode ideas!) and we want more of them (and your ideas about bonus episodes, pricing, etc.) It’l...Show More
3) Why Other People's Screen Time Annoys You
Maybe your mom endlessly scrolls Facebook every time you visit. Maybe your kid has to be asked six times to get off his tablet. Maybe your friend is always checking Instagram when you’re out to dinner...Show More
4) Who Gets a Mid-Life Reinvention?
By the mid-2010s, Jen Hatmaker had become one of the most important voices in white Evangelical culture. She had multiple best-selling books; she headlined massive women’s retreats; she was an influen...Show More
5) Figuring Out What's Behind Seven Recent Food Trends
I love talking about food as culture — and like all parts of culture, food has trends that ebb and flow. We asked you to provide us with food trends you’ve noticed (and/or confuse you) — and then we a...Show More
6) How Algorithms Are Changing the Way We Speak
This one’s a weird one! But it’s also going to elucidate a bunch of bewildering phrases that you might have noticed popping up in advertisements or in teens’ conversations. Adam Aleksic runs the incre...Show More
7) One Gwyneth Episode to Rule Them All
There aren’t many contemporary celebrities with images layered enough that I could talk about them all day. But Gwyneth? She’s one of them. She’s it. She’s never pretended to be “just like us,” which ...Show More
8) Dozens of New-To-You Books for Your TBR Pile
Over on the newsletter, our book concierge threads — when people ask for specific book recommendations, and readers then offer their suggestions — regularly top 1500 comments. We wanted to bring the ...Show More
9) Don't Mess With Texas Culture
Texas Culture is at least a dozen cultures smashed into one enormous state — with a whopping 254 counties, four sprawling metro areas, 1255 miles of border with Mexico, the best breakfast item in the ...Show More
10) The Potent Ideological Stew of Evangelical Church Camp
I first read about Cara Meredith’s book on evangelical church camp over at Kristin Kobes Du Mez’s newsletter, and as soon as I saw “cry night” in the subtitle, I knew any conversation with her was gon...Show More