Archive - The Culture We Deserve

People Live Here: Wildcat Dome and the Late Work of Tsushima Yuko

Locals call it “The Tomb,” but it is more generally known as the Runit Dome, named for its island home, Runit Island.

Feb 28 •

Graham Dethmers

TCWD Podcast: What is Wrong with Men

From the cult of incels running our government to Trump's alliance with Andrew Tate to Elon Musk's mountain of neglected baby boys, one has to ask, what…

Feb 26 •

Culture, Digested: Whatever Happened to....?

On Red Scare, Predators, and The Conformist

Feb 24 •

Destroy Thee I Definitely Won’t

On Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland

Feb 21 •

Robert Long Foreman

TCWD Podcast: 250 Years of This, Seven Months Left to Go

As America gears up to celebrate its 250th anniversary, Jessa and Nico discuss this country's obsession with its founding, what Kamala's vision for the…

Feb 20 •

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Culture, Digested: What Was Woke Art: Elite Interiority

Curtis Sittenfeld's Rodham and other fan fictions

Feb 18 •

TCWD Podcast: we welcome our new antiwoke cultural overlords

please just someone write a good book, I'm begging

Feb 6 •

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January 2025

TCWD Podcast: dead geniuses

With the release of the Brian Eno documentary, one has to wonder: What is the real cause of our cultural stagnation?

Jan 29 •

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TCWD Podcast: The Brutalist is the Future of Film (Derogatory)

Is America capable of creating geniuses anymore, or just technicians who feed the nostalgia for the age of auteurs?

Jan 22 •

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Culture, Digested: Neil Gaiman is an Industry Problem

Around twenty years ago, publishing forgot how to sell books.

Jan 21 •

Babies all the way down…

On natal ambivalence

Jan 17 •

The Ersatz Experience

TCWD Podcast: will you help me die?

(Sorry for the delayed release of this week’s episode, we hit a technical snafu.)

Jan 16 •

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