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| Date | Combined Rank | Apple Podcasts |
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| Oct 27 | — | — |
| Oct 26 | #185 | #176 |
| Oct 22 | #176 | #166 |
| Oct 15 | #188 | #178 |
Latest episodes
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BONUS EPISODE: The Particular Badness of Verity [preview]
October 25, 2026 · 13 minA psychological thriller about writing with three movie stars — sign me up! Let's do this! This is extremely my shit! But Verity has so much going wrong: bad writing, incoherent acting, a hesitancy to embrace the abject, a text that wishes…
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How to Get Dressed (with Corinne Fay)
October 21, 2026 · 1 hr 12 minThe third installment in our BACK TO SCHOOL Fashion Series is here! Corinne Fay is one of my favorite style writers — in part because she's writing for people that "Style" has largely ignored. She's out here finding the clothes that are…
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Code-switching and Cussing (with Audie Cornish and Ari Shapiro!!)
October 14, 2026 · 59 minThis episode is so chaotic! (Also very fun, very interesting, and obviously very smart.) All of our best laid plans for how it would go went straight out the window — that's what happens when you talk to two of the smartest, most…
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Is the Age of Posting Over?
October 7, 2026 · 1 hr 18 minThis is not an episode about whether or not you should delete your social media accounts — we've had that conversation, and we'll keep having that conversation. Instead, this is an episode about all the weird habits we've developed around…
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How an Article of Clothing Goes Viral
September 30, 2026 · 58 minIt feels like a real symptom of the modern age that an article of clothing can just start... following you around online. There it is, in your Instagram feed (again, and again, and again). But it's also there in between paragraphs while…
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BONUS EPISODE: Dungeon Crawler Carl's Utilikilt Masculinity [preview]
September 28, 2026 · 19 minThere are eight books in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series, and people have bought fourteen million of them. First published online, then self-published on Amazon, with an audiobook version that people won't shut up about, Dungeon Crawler…
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When Convenience Actually Kinda Sucks
September 23, 2026 · 1 hr 22 minOver the last six years, our conversations on Culture Study have often circled back to a handful of recurring themes: contemporary work culture, burnout, optimization culture, intensive parenting, the often hollow pull of the algorithm…
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Fighting is an Art. Here's How To Get Better At It.
September 16, 2026 · 1 hr 5 minIF YOU NEED HELP ADDING YOUR SUBSCRIBER-ONLY FEED TO YOUR PODCAST PLAYER, JUST CLICK HERE! Conflict happens — and navigating that conflict is essential to a healthy community, a healthy relationship, and a healthy workplace. But so many…
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Trying to Have Kids Amidst a Polycrisis
September 9, 2026 · 1 hr 10 minI love kids. In a different timeline, I'd almost certainly have them. But when I was in my 30s, I looked around — and looked at my own bank account, and the realities of childcare, the weight of my student loans, and how hard people…
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Why Are So Many Men Unraveling?
September 2, 2026 · 1 hr 7 minA man with a fairytale castle in upstate New York who keeps trying to make a self-produced reality show about "princesses" happen — and become a modern-day Hugh Hefner. A man who got famous on YouTube for lawn care who ends up filming…
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BONUS EPISODE: Let's Talk About Friend Breakups [preview]
August 28, 2026 · 11 minIn June, I sent out a Friday Thread prompt that readers had been asking for, in one shape or another, for years: How do we talk about non-romantic breakups? Why do they sting SO MUCH? Why is the vocabulary around a friend breakup so…
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The Politics of White Women's Hair
August 26, 2026 · 1 hr 19 minLet's do some HAIR STUDIES! How does blondeness recruit and convey power? When is curly hair a signifier of unruliness — and when does it say Cool Girl? Will we ever be free of the tyranny of the beachy wave? What's the New Karen Cut?…
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A podcast about the culture that surrounds you — with Anne Helen Petersen and a bunch of very smart co-hosts.