The Culture We Deserve
Episodes
Whither Art School
03 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
America's oldest art school, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, is closing its degreed programs after a perilous drop in enrollment. It is just on...
Nonfiction Overload
27 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Every week there's a new docuseries where the victims of horrific violence or exploitation have to get in front of the camera and tell us the bad thin...
The State of the Wife
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are the tradwives coming to take your husbands? Page Six printed an essay by a woman whose partner got addicted to depictions of effortless domesticit...
The Oscars: The Opposite of Content!
13 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The viewership of the Oscars is less than half of what it was a decade ago, and yet the award ceremony dominates celebrity media more than ever. The f...
America the Uncanny
06 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hey, hey you. No no no, act cool. Listen, I have discovered some pretty potent information about the dealings of our government in (Iran/Nicaragua/Chi...
A Short History of the Holocaust Film
28 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Oscars love the Holocaust. Jessa and Nico look back at the short history of the Oscar bait Holocaust film, from Sophie's Choice to Schindler's Lis...
Is Your Grief Loud Enough?
21 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Families of the victims of mass shootings are participating in The Shotline, where AI recreates their loved ones' voices to plea for political action....
Fade Out
14 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Has TikTok ruined music? With its users flooding concert venues to meow at the artists, with the "oh no" song playing in the background of videos of p...
My Own Private Colombia
07 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With the release of "Griselda," a Narcos-adjacent Netflix show that reboots Scarface as a woman as if this were the Ghostbusters, Jessa and Nico look ...
Do You Guys Ever Think About Dying?
31 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
America has an arrested development problem. But while men are castigated regularly for not meeting the markers of basic adulthood, the feminine, the ...
A New Media Struggling to Be Born
24 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Media continues its decline with layoffs and closures. The only winners appear to be the tech intermediaries like Meta, Amazon, and Google. (X continu...
Sample - Four Years of Marvel vs Scorsese Discourse
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As we head into our end of the year break, here is a sample of our bonus episode, a discussion of what the last four years of Marvel Cinematic Univers...
A Fifth of Mahler, Part Three
30 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jessa Crispin speaks with two working artists, Philadelphia Orchestra bassoonist Daniel Matsukawa and mezzo-soprano singer Amber Fasquelle, about the ...
A Fifth of Mahler, Part Two
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We tend to think of the art world as being more progressive than the rest of society -- mostly because we confuse libertine with progressive -- but ac...
A Fifth of Mahler, Part One
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Over the next three episodes, we'll be exploring the state of classical music. Times are fraught! Attendance is down, institutions are broke (and in s...
The Culture We Deserve Trailer
26 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Coming in November 2023: The Culture We Deserve podcast! . Hosted by Jessa Crispin, produced by Zach Toman. http://theculturewedeserve.substack.com