Culturally Determined Aryeh Cohen-Wade

Sarah discusses her recent New York Times essay, "Hate Gen X? Get in Line (Behind a Gen X-er)." Why are young people lumping together Boomers and Xers? Why do so many Gen X writers spend time railing against "woke" ideas? Is Elon Musk more defined by being Gen X or by being a billionaire? And why do Xers find Millennials so annoying?
Recorded September 14, 2023
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LINKS
Sarah's NYT piece, "Hate Gen X? Get in Line (Behind a Gen X-er)."
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/25/style/gen-x-generation-discourse.html
Sarah's NYT piece on not having kids
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/19/style/new-friend-children-conversation.html
Chuck Klosterman's book, "The Nineties"
https://www.amazon.com/Nineties-Book-Chuck-Klosterman/dp/0735217955
Big Fun, "Teenage Suicide, Don't Do It"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO3WEfBIPvM
Sara's Substack, "The Real Sarah Miller"
https://therealsarahmiller.substack.com/
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Historian Jeremy Dauber talks about his new book, "Mel Brooks: Disobedient Jew," which is part of the Yale Jewish Lives series. He discusses Brooks's Brooklyn childhood, his Borscht Belt years, writing on "Your Show of Shows" and working with Carl Reiner, his move to Hollywood, why parody was his main genre, and his comedic legacy.
Recorded July 18, 2023
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LINKS:
Jeremy's book, "Mel Brooks: Disobedient Jew"
https://www.amazon.com/Mel-Brooks-Disobedient-Jewish-Lives/dp/0300244274
Brooks's Oscar-winning short film, "The Critic"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PramR5oxn50
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Claire Dederer talks about her new book, "Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma," a blend of cultural criticism and memoir in which she thinks deeply about the work of great artists who were also horrible people.
Recorded July 24, 2023.
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LINKS
Claire's new book,"Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma"
https://www.amazon.com/Monsters-Fans-Dilemma-Claire-Dederer/dp/0525655115
Claire's 2017 essay, "What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men?"
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/11/20/art-monstrous-men/
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Art critic Kristian Vistrup Madsen discusses his essay on the 2000s, "Chains Or Whips? The Cruel Decade And Its Aftermath," in which he draws connections between Abu Ghraib, reality television, and Britney Spears to reflect on the culture of the Aughts.
Recorded July 12, 2023.
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LINKS
Kristian's essay, "Chains Or Whips? The Cruel Decade And Its Aftermath"
https://www.thewhitereview.org/feature/chains-or-whips/
NBC on viral video of 2002 high school
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/videos-high-school-life-decades-stir-nostalgia-debate-rcna77590
Kristian's website
https://kristianvistrup.dk/
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Andrew Lipstein discusses "The Vegan," his new novel about a hedge fund founder who has an unusual moral awakening after a dinner party prank he pulls goes disastrously awry. The novel considers artificial intelligence, Brooklyn mores, our relationship with animals, psychiatry, responsibility, and more.
Recorded July 7, 2023
LINKS
Andrew's new novel, "The Vegan"
https://www.amazon.com/Vegan-Novel-Andrew-Lipstein/dp/0374606587
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Author Tom Bissell discusses his recent essay in Harper's, "Time Is a Violent Stream," about embracing Stoic philosophy after the death of his father. Why is Stoicism so useful during a time of crisis? What do contemporary popular books about Stoicism get wrong? Why do online reactionaries love Marcus Aurelius? Plus: Is Stoicism just for men?
Recorded May 8, 2023
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LINKS
Tom's piece, "Time Is a Violent Stream: On losing a father and finding Stoicism"
https://harpers.org/archive/2023/05/meditations-marcus-aurelius-stoicism/
Marcus Aurelius, "Meditations"
https://a.co/d/dOqIhZc
Ward Farnsworth's book, "The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User's Manual"
https://www.amazon.com/Practicing-Stoic-Philosophical-Users-Manual/dp/1567926118
Donald Robertson's book, "How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius"
https://a.co/d/7hCE19N
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