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June 13, 2018 —
Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Connie Wang
Culturally Determined
- Why Connie has grown sick of the cultural appropriation debate
- Nicki Minaj and the flattening of Asian cultures
- How social media escalated the cultural appropriation wars
- Why are these fights so often over fashion and food?
- Appropriation, mockery, and Halloween
- The Met Gala and Catholic-inspired fashion
- Who gets to decide that a particular outfit is "okay"?
July 18, 2019 —
Daniel Kaufman & Milton Lawson
Sophia
- Why Dan and Milton love Stranger Things
- How does the new season measure up?
- Is "the Upside Down" a coherent idea?
- Is Generation X about to have its moment in pop culture?
- Dan fears wokeness is ruining pop culture
- The risks of a fourth Stranger Things season
- Pop culture in an era of massive corporate control
- Speculating on HBO's mysterious Watchmen adaptation
June 14, 2018 —
Stephen Asma & Rami Gabriel
Emotions and the Brain
- Where do culture, emotion, and cognition intersect?
- Is altruism a fluke of humans' inherently selfish nature?
- How Western individualism clouds our view of human nature
- Stephen: The strongest cultural adaptations are shared unconsciously
- An evolutionary explanation of Trump's cult of personality
- Complicating the narrative on immigrant cultural values and success
- Reactions to Stephen's new book, Why We Need Religion
March 01, 2016 —
Robert Wright & Mark Smith
The Wright Show
- Considering the thesis of Mark's new book Secular Faith
- Creative uses of the Scriptures by pro-choice and pro-life advocates
- What shapes attitudes towards abortion?
- Reinterpreting biblical condemnations of homosexuality
- How cultural change affects religious thought
- How cultural change affects religious institutions
June 20, 2019 —
Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Rachel Vorona Cote
Culturally Determined
- Rachel's essay on her mother's death, "The Fraught Culture of Online Mourning"
- Aryeh recalls mourning his father in the pre-social media era
- A moment when language fails
- Is it possible to talk about death with sincerity on Twitter?
- The many (often gendered) Victorian rituals of mourning
- Rachel's forthcoming book, Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today
- Do you want to be memorialized for eternity on Facebook?
October 05, 2016 —
Vlad Chituc & Frank Bures
- The Geography of Madness, Frank's book about "penis theft" and other "culture-bound" syndromes
- How believing that you're going to die can kill you
- How to cure "penis theft?"
- The challenge of ethically responding to seemingly crazy beliefs
- Frank: The body isn't like a machine
- Belief-boosted runners, windmill syndrome, and the weird case of Coca-Cola poisoning
September 04, 2018 —
Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Lauren Shields
Culturally Determined
- Lauren's new book on her experiment with dressing modestly, The Beauty Suit
- Lauren's unusual path to the seminary
- Alternative readings of Quranic verses on female modesty
- Christianity, conspicuous consumption, and the Amish
- Jewish women who cover their hair with wigs that look just like their hair
- Makeup trends that only look good on social media
- Why cultural appropriation is often rooted in misogyny
- Lauren's advice for men
October 28, 2018 —
Stephen Asma & Rami Gabriel
- Minding Emotions: music edition
- The emotional shift between minor and major chords
- Examining tonal dissonance in Western music
- When melodies become "pregnant with meaning"
- Why we find beauty in disharmony
- Rami: Social class and culture imbue music with meaning, too
- Is music hardwired in humans?
- How practicing art and music hones the eye and the ear
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