Surviving Eight Years of Conversion Therapy
When we recorded this episode two weeks ago, we knew that the Supreme Court was planning on releasing a judgment in Chiles v. Salazar — to decide whether Colorado’s law banning conversion therapy (whi...
8 Apr 59min
The Fascinating Future of the Chain Restaurant
The future of the chain restaurant is... chicken? I learned so much from this conversation with food systems (and chain restaurant) expert Austin Frerick — from how Sysco maintains its restaurant supr...
1 Apr 1h 14min
Falling in Love with Video Games as an Adult
Did you get into gaming as an adult? Did you come back to gaming as an adult? Or, like me, did you savage people on Bubble Bobble in the early '90s... and are trying to figure out how to reproduce tha...
25 Mars 51min
Hilary Duff's Irresistible Millennial Mom Image
It's the second coming of Hilary Duff... but real ones know she never went anywhere. This week we're so lucky to have Allie Jones — author of the superb Gossip Time newsletter and Hilary Duff superfan...
18 Mars 1h 2min
Finally a Conversation About a Car-Less Future That Won't Make You Feel Like Crap
Free Yourself from the Tyranny of the Automobile!! That's the subtitle of the new book Life After Cars, written by the hosts of the popular podcast "War On Cars." And listen, I am 100% on board: this ...
11 Mars 1h 11min
Just Trust Us on This Queer Historical Romance Ep, It Rules
When I first came up for the idea for the Culture Study Romance Book Club back in January, I knew I wanted every edition to have two books: one contemporary, and one historical. Part of this desire wa...
4 Mars 59min
The Sociology of Baby Names
Baby names are in inexhaustible cultural text. They're a way to talk about class, race, and gender, of course — but also the way we perform familial respect and coherence. In this episode, sociologist...
25 Feb 57min
[PREVIEW] SPECIAL BONUS EPISODE: Wuthering Heights Teenage Feeling Edition
Unstructured conversation! Teenage Feelings! Flesh walls! Abjection! Jacob Elordi's Jacob Elordi-ness! Arguments about the purpose of adaptation! THE GREAT AND VERY SMART MARGARET WILLISON! This bonus...
23 Feb 1min
