This Is Critical

By Stitcher & Virginia Heffernan

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Fearless, sophisticated culture criticism for all generations. Nothing is off-limits, nothing dumbed down. With American culture on the rocks, we're split into fake "wars" about everything from avocados to bicycles to medical masks. It's time we took a critical lens to every facet of our shared experience. And that's what Virginia Heffernan is prepared to do.

Episode Date
Why Bother with Critical Theory at All?
Aug 18, 2022
Home-Buying Needs a Gut Renovation
Aug 11, 2022
Our Bodies, Our Climate: How Heat Affects Humans
Aug 04, 2022
The Twisted Road to Wellville
Jul 28, 2022
When Our Organs Are Under Surveillance: Privacy After Roe
Jul 21, 2022
How to Change a Mind
Jul 14, 2022
Cooling Off is a Hot Topic
Jul 07, 2022
Stagecraft, Storytelling, and the January 6th Hearings
Jun 30, 2022
Defying Digital Hate
Jun 23, 2022
The Bleak Ideology of Food Crazes
Jun 16, 2022
The Best of Slimes
Jun 09, 2022
Here's to New Mrs. Robinson
Jun 02, 2022
Demystifying the Black Manosphere
May 26, 2022
Tucker Flexes His Big Man Muscles
May 19, 2022
The Deeply Weird Mind of Elizabeth Holmes
May 12, 2022
Will Musk Bring Gamergate Back to Twitter?
May 05, 2022
Flipping the Script at Amazon
Apr 28, 2022
Dying to Live Forever
Apr 21, 2022
The Rise and Fall of a Campus Cult
Apr 14, 2022
Putin's Brain
Apr 07, 2022
Close Shaves
Mar 31, 2022
The Dirtbag Wife
Mar 24, 2022
Getting Off the Brandwagon
Mar 17, 2022
I Don’t See a New Episode!
Mar 10, 2022
Two Ways to Stop Putin
Mar 04, 2022
Why Are We Still Dieting?
Mar 03, 2022
Saying Yes to Ulysses
Feb 24, 2022
The Red-Pilling of Yoga World
Feb 17, 2022
Work Will Break Your Heart — and You
Feb 10, 2022
Game, Set, Vax
Feb 03, 2022
DNA and the Age of Innocence
Jan 27, 2022
Is Ketamine All It's Cracked Up to Be?
Jan 20, 2022
Rewriting the History of Humanity
Jan 13, 2022
An Oral History of the Attack on the Capitol
Jan 06, 2022
Thinking Critically About Sex, Drugs, Hope, and the Climate
Dec 30, 2021
The Very Emotional History of Crusaders and Witches
Dec 23, 2021
Bye-Bye, Miss America, Bye
Dec 16, 2021
How to Live in a Post-Roe World
Dec 09, 2021
How the Hallmark Channel Stole Christmas
Dec 02, 2021
Do Manners Matter?
Nov 25, 2021
Plenty of Catfish in the Sea
Nov 18, 2021
Hello Sadness, My Old Friend…
Nov 11, 2021
Who's Afraid of Louise Mensch?
Nov 04, 2021
Dave Eggers vs. the Internet
Oct 28, 2021
Katie Hill: The Anatomy of a Sex Scandal
Oct 21, 2021
So You Think You Know Montel
Oct 14, 2021
Hey, Where's My New Episode?
Oct 07, 2021
OMG FACEBOOK IS DOWN!!!
Oct 06, 2021
Did Broadway Get Radicalized in the Dark?
Sep 30, 2021
Talk Trash to Me
Sep 23, 2021
Coming Soon: This Is Critical
Sep 07, 2021