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How Are Those Luxury Beliefs Working Out?
Rob Henderson on the mating crisis, the Mamdani moment, and the coinage that keeps on giving.
 • 
Meghan Daum
 and 
Rob Henderson
1
1:05:37
Tarot Truth Bomb: Penelope Reads Luba
(Trigger warning) Recording from Thursday's livestream with Penelope Trunk.
 • 
Meghan Daum
, 
Luba Kaplanskaya
, and 
Penelope Trunk
26
1:02:28
The Catastrophe Hour Book Club: Week 9
An excerpt from What I Have In Common With Trans Activists
 • 
Meghan Daum
1
11:01
Penelope Trunk Is Back!
Join us in the livestream Thursday Aug 7 at 3pm ET. Send in your questions!
 • 
Meghan Daum
Is the Racial Reckoning Over?
John McWhorter on language, the arts, podcasting with Glenn Loury, and defunding the grammar police.
 • 
Meghan Daum
 and 
John McWhorter
18
1:11:06

July 2025

Bonus Episode: The Trouble with "The Trouble With Wanting Men"
Tara Henley, Lily Isaacs, and I discuss heterofatalism and the "peak Brooklynism" of The New York Times
 • 
Meghan Daum
, 
Tara Henley
, and 
Lily Isaacs
16
51:58
How To Survive a Mania
Lionel Shriver hates groupthink. And so should everyone else.
 • 
Meghan Daum
39
1:31:30
The Catastrophe Hour Book Club: Week 8
An excerpt from Independent Creator
 • 
Meghan Daum
1
12:06
What's Going On? An Unspeakable Update.
Live event in NYC, podcast news, Unspeakeasy forum developments, and future plans.
 • 
Meghan Daum
9
Extreme Religious Conversion
Kelsey Osgood on women, religious transformations, and what anorexia has to do with it.
 • 
Meghan Daum
2
1:16:06
The Catastrophe Hour Book Club: Week 7
An excerpt from 70 Million Songs
 • 
Meghan Daum
1
9:07
Do Women Owe Men An Apology?
Evolutionary Biologist Carole Hooven wants to make masculinity great again.
 • 
Meghan Daum
44
1:25:09
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