Hosted by Jessa Crispin, The Culture We Deserve covers the state of the arts.
Jessa and Nico return from their week off to discover nothing has really changed. We're still talking about campus protests... more
Americans are being warned by their government that before they leave the country they need to check their luggage for... more
Civil War is a hit! Both blue states and red states agree that watching a movie that lets you fantasize... more
The Dept of Health and Human Services ruled that hospitals could no longer do pelvic exams on unconscious women without... more
DEI is the new Critical Race Theory is the new Affirmative Action -- a way to distract you from the... more
America's oldest art school, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, is closing its degreed programs after a perilous drop in... more
Every week there's a new docuseries where the victims of horrific violence or exploitation have to get in front of... more
Are the tradwives coming to take your husbands? Page Six printed an essay by a woman whose partner got addicted... more
The viewership of the Oscars is less than half of what it was a decade ago, and yet the award... more
Hey, hey you. No no no, act cool. Listen, I have discovered some pretty potent information about the dealings of... more
The Oscars love the Holocaust. Jessa and Nico look back at the short history of the Oscar bait Holocaust film,... more
Families of the victims of mass shootings are participating in The Shotline, where AI recreates their loved ones' voices to... more
Has TikTok ruined music? With its users flooding concert venues to meow at the artists, with the "oh no" song... more
With the release of "Griselda," a Narcos-adjacent Netflix show that reboots Scarface as a woman as if this were the... more
America has an arrested development problem. But while men are castigated regularly for not meeting the markers of basic adulthood,... more
Media continues its decline with layoffs and closures. The only winners appear to be the tech intermediaries like Meta, Amazon,... more
As we head into our end of the year break, here is a sample of our bonus episode, a discussion... more
Jessa Crispin speaks with two working artists, Philadelphia Orchestra bassoonist Daniel Matsukawa and mezzo-soprano singer Amber Fasquelle, about the sometimes... more
We tend to think of the art world as being more progressive than the rest of society -- mostly because... more
Over the next three episodes, we'll be exploring the state of classical music. Times are fraught! Attendance is down, institutions... more
Over the next three episodes, we'll be exploring the state of classical music. Times are fraught! Attendance is down, institutions are broke... more