Culture Gabfest - Lash, Pre-Lash, and Parasocial Relations
This week, Steve and Dana are joined by author and co-host of Slate’s Working podcast, Isaac Butler. First, the panel discusses how Paul Schrader’s most recent film, The Card Counter, replaces gamblin...
15 Sep 202155min
ICYMI - Who’s Left Out of Amazon’s LulaRoe Doc?
LulaRich, a new documentary from Amazon, tells the story of LulaRoe, a multi-level marketing company on selling leggings to women. On today’s episode, Rachelle and Madison discuss their own encounters...
15 Sep 202127min
Outward: Slate's LGBTQ podcast - Summer's Swan Songs
Christina, Bryan, and Slate Senior Managing Producer June Thomas say farewell to outgoing host Rumaan Alam, then welcome journalist Casey Newton to discuss Grindr's data security problem and its inher...
15 Sep 20211h 2min
What Next - Why College Professors Have Had It
As the fall semester begins at U.S. universities, faculty and staff and institutions of higher education are at a breaking point. Widespread feelings of burnout were laid bare by the coronavirus pande...
14 Sep 202118min
Hang Up and Listen - No Grand Slam for Novak
Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and the New Yorker’s Louisa Thomas talk about Daniil Medvedev’s upset over Novak Djokovic and Emma Raducanu’s shocking U.S. Open title. They also discuss Jameis Winston, the...
13 Sep 20211h 9min
What Next - Empty Shelves Everywhere
The coronavirus pandemic has left no part of the world untouched, including global manufacturing supply chains. The complex system that keeps goods moving throughout the world has struggled to catch u...
13 Sep 202121min
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - The Legal Repercussions of the War on Terror
This weekend marks the 20th anniversary of 9/11, and as the withdrawal from Afghanistan dominates the headlines, so does the conversation about the forever war and its implications. Dahlia Lithwick is...
11 Sep 202152min
Slate Money - Shutdown
Historian and author Adam Tooze joins Felix Salmon and Emily Peck to talk about his new book Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World’s Economy and his Substack piece on the sanctions on Afghanistan. In th...
11 Sep 202146min
