Culturally Determined

Aryeh Cohen-Wade

Aryeh Cohen-Wade speaks with a variety of guests about culture, politics, and American society in general.

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The Bard of Twitter, with William Shakespeare

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10/11/21 • 58 min

A new YouTube channel for Culturally Determined ... Meet the man who tweets as William Shakespeare ... The most secret and most grave truths of @Wwm_Shakespeare ... Spying a kind of hope in Shakespearean ambiguity ... Have you heard the joke about the old lady who reads Hamlet for the first time? ... Productions that hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature ... Shakespeare's shameless stealing ...

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Small Moments of Delight, with Sophie Haigney

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09/20/21 • 58 min

Sophie's exploration of the use and misuse of "the Irish goodbye" ... The strange joy of watching a Picasso painting fall to the ground ... NFTs and the question of authentication ... What makes an object a valuable collectible? ... Sophie investigates the hidden melodies of subways ... The pathos of lost pet signs ...

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Reconsidering Online Disinformation, with Joe Bernstein

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09/08/21 • 53 min

Joe's new essay on online disinformation ... Does advertising actually work? ... Joe: Maybe the real critique of Facebook is that it's a worthless product ... The ivermectin craze and the end of media gatekeeping ... How do you solve a problem like Bret Weinstein? ... The indigenous American berserk and the Internet's garbage ouroboros ...

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Pandemic Poetry, with Leigh Stein

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08/09/21 • 70 min

Leigh's new poetry collection, What to Miss When ... How the collection emerged from lockdown ... Leigh's poem "Simulation Theory," which was inspired by a MeaningofLife.tv episode ... Leigh's essay, "Sympathy for the Girlboss" ... Women taking down other women in the name of feminism ... Michael Jordan vs. Lebron James as a marker of generational change ... Is a better version of the Internet possible? ...

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"The Netanyahus," a Novel, with Joshua Cohen

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08/27/21 • 59 min

Joshua's new novel, The Netanyahus ... How Harold Bloom inspired a novel about Bibi Netanyahu's father ... Other influences: Philip Roth, classic sitcoms, and Yiddish anecdotes ... Jewish assimilationism vs. Jewish identitarianism ... The semi-forgotten history of Revisionist Zionism ... Those shameless Netanyahu boys! ... Why Aryeh thought the novel was targeted at his personal demographic ...

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Arendt, Trump, and Truth, with Rebecca Panovka

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08/16/21 • 60 min

Rebecca's essay on how Hannah Arendt was misread during the Trump years ... A capsule biography of Arendt ... The real meaning of Arendt's famous line about "the ideal subject of totalitarian rule" ... Rebecca: Trump's lies were mostly "boardroom bullshit" ... Are Trump's post-election machinations approaching "big lie" territory? ... The banality of evil vs. grotesquerie of Trump ... "Post-truth" in the run-up to the Iraq War ... The banality of Robert McNamara and Donald Rumsfeld ... Rebecca cofounded The Drift as an antidote to the monolithic media narrative ...

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On Millennial Jews, with Rabbi Ari Hart

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06/14/21 • 78 min

Rabbi Ari introduces himself ... How do Millennial American Jews understand their Judaism? ... The unique Jewish community in Skokie, Illinois ... Identity, tribalism, and communal thickness ... The failures of Hebrew School education ... Rising anti-Semitism on both right and left in America ... Why Millennials must develop a mature relationship with Judaism and Zionism ... Rabbi Ari: "Judaism is ultimately not about you" ...

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Know Your Enemy, with Matthew Sitman

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03/31/21 • 77 min

Matt's podcast on the conservative movement, Know Your Enemy ... Matt's journey from movement conservative to democratic socialist ... Trump and the conservative intellectuals who tried to defend him ... Can there be a Trumpism without Trump? ... A cheer or two for the anti-Trump neoconservatives ... Are all the young conservative intellectuals just grifters? ... What Matt still retains from his conservative days ... Joe Biden, our first publicly Catholic president ...

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QAnon as Symptom, with Daniel Bessner

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01/27/21 • 81 min

Daniel's analysis of QAnon and the storming of the Capitol ... Is QAnon a religious cult? An alternative reality game run amok? ... Cultural vs. material explanations for Trump's rise ... Did the rioters get close to actually accomplishing anything? ... America's civic religion and why the left is unlikely to win ... Is Trump the worst president in American history? ... Aryeh praises and critiques Mickey Kaus ... The rise and fall of intellectual contrarianism ...

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Kant Stop Critiquin', with David Ottlinger

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11/29/21 • 86 min

A bizarre Washington Post column about critical theory and Immanuel Kant ... Why has Kant become a bogeyman? ... How contingent is the history of philosophy? ... Relativism vs. rationalism ... What Kant meant by the "Critique of Pure Reason" ... Steven Pinker and the problem with rationalists ... David explains what Kant actually believed ...

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How many episodes does Culturally Determined have?

Culturally Determined currently has 171 episodes available.

What topics does Culturally Determined cover?

The podcast is about Pop Culture, News, Culture, Literature, Fiction, Society & Culture, Film, Society, Comic Books, Television, Podcasts, Books, Movies and Politics.

What is the most popular episode on Culturally Determined?

The episode title 'More Than Meets the Eye, with Milton Lawson' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Culturally Determined?

The average episode length on Culturally Determined is 63 minutes.

How often are episodes of Culturally Determined released?

Episodes of Culturally Determined are typically released every 9 days, 19 hours.

When was the first episode of Culturally Determined?

The first episode of Culturally Determined was released on Jan 20, 2018.

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Culturally Determined

Aryeh Cohen-Wade

Top 10 Culturally Determined Episodes

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