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Jul 17, 2019 — Daniel Kaufman & Milton Lawson
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
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Jan 3, 2019 — Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Travis Smith
Travis’s new book,
Superhero Ethics
The Incredible Hulk and the dangers of individualism
Why Wolverine embodies honor and integrity
Batman vs. Spider-Man, dueling reactions to our tragic universe
Family tragedies in the lives of Bruce Wayne and Peter Parker
Why adults should take comic books seriously
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Nov 4, 2018 — Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Brandy Jensen
How Brandy came to write an advice column called “Ask a F*ck-Up”
Young people’s problems: depression, alienation, loneliness
Brandy’s central theme: the responsibilities we bear to each other
Can “bad men” change?
The different questions men and women ask
Brandy: A “sex strike” would never work
In defense of being in your own Twitter bubble
Why are there so many depressed people on Twitter?
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Oct 23, 2018 — Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Max Read
Viewing the Trump-Kanye meeting through the lens of mental illness
The shared traits that make Trump and Kanye irresistible to the media
How online news and social media created the “attention economy”
Did reality TV remake reality?
Jake and Logan Paul: brothers, YouTube superstars, and possible sociopaths
How social media helps people with mental illness
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Jun 13, 2018 — Stephen Asma & Rami Gabriel
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
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