Why Do We Get So Mad at Celebrities?
I spent years of my life studying celebrity images and what makes them meaningful to us. A celebrity’s actions or words can make or deepen our connection to them — or they can really piss us off. But ...
15 Maj 202450min
How Christian Rock Fed the Culture Wars
If you grew up in or adjacent to evangelical culture, the sounds of ‘90s and early 2000s Christian Rock are as familiar to you as the beginning bars of Britney Spears “Hit Me Baby One More Time.” The ...
8 Maj 202454min
How Did Goodreads Get So Bad?
A platform where you can record what you’re reading and talk to others about what they’re reading doesn’t sound like a recipe for dystopia. But throw in a negligent billionaire conglomerate owner, opt...
1 Maj 202452min
Taylor Swift and the Tortured Poets Aesthetic
A listener submitted a question earlier this week that was basically: Why are we talking about Taylor Swift again???? And I get it: if you’re not a fan, if her music is not for you, you too might be t...
24 Apr 20241h 2min
The Country Heart of Cowboy Carter
Who can force a nationwide conversation about musical genre for a whole damn month? Beyoncé can. And I knew I wanted to be several weeks into that discussion — and several weeks into my own relationsh...
17 Apr 202436min
The Insidious Influence of Moms for Liberty
Moms For Liberty sucks. I’m not going to even try to soften that statement, because it’s true: they’re an ideologically regressive organization that is wielding the idea of “parental rights” to censor...
10 Apr 202451min
We know sitting is bad for us. But what are we supposed to do instead?
Driving, attending meetings, hunching over laptops, zooming, commuting, absentmindedly scrolling Instagram — so much of contemporary life encourages if not outright demands that we sit. But study afte...
3 Apr 202446min
Come Drink From the Stanley Cup
As any Pacific Northwest teen from the ‘90s and early 2000s who carted a Nalgene around campus can tell you: WATER BOTTLE CULTURE IS NOT NEW. As pretty much any Grandpa or Boomer Dad can tell you: NEI...
27 Mars 202454min
