The Culture Gabfest, Monopoly Edition
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In this week's Culture Gabfest, critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner discuss whether personal virtue can solve global warming, the possible failure of personal virtue in the travel writing business, and the utter failure of personal virtue inside Abu Ghraib.
Here are links to some of the articles and other items mentioned in the show:
Michael Pollan's New York TimesMagazine article "Why Bother?"
Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan's Slanted Truths: Essays on Gaia
Thomas Kohnstamm's book Do Travel Writers Go to Hell?
Lonely Planet responds to the Kohnstamm scandal
Errol Morris' Standard Operating Procedure
Film: Iraq in Fragments
"Photo Finish: How the Abu Ghraib photos morphed from scandal to law," by Dahlia Lithwick
Julia's pick: Hot Chip
100 best novels from Random House
Dana's pick: Elizabeth Bowen's The Death of the Heart
Stephen's pick: The Bachelor
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April 9, 2008
Listen to Culture Gabfest No. 5, with critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner by clicking the arrow on the audio player below: You can also download the program here, or you can subscribe to the weekly Gabfest podcast feed in iTunes by clicking here.
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss whether the latest Vogue cover is racist (or just the subject of misplaced outrage in the blogosphere), whether Hillary's tax return explodes the Clintons' middle-class image, and whether the new online sitcom The Guild is for nerds only.
Here are links to some of the articles and other items mentioned in the show:
Vogue's "King Kong" cover
Slate's take on the Vogue cover
John Lennon and Yoko Ono on the cover of Rolling Stone, photographed by Annie Leibovitz
Hillary Clinton's 2007 tax return (as disclosed by Hillary)
The Guild: official show site, YouTube channel
World of Warcraft
Quarterlife (no longer) on NBC
M. Ward and Zooey Deschanel
AC/DC
Am I That Name? by Denise Riley
BBC Radio 4's Start the Week
Oxford Town, Red Hook, and Every Other Place Bob Dylan’s Ever Sung About, Mapped
New Study Tries, Fails to Show Marijuana Use Is Linked to Crime
Gorgeous Pic of the Ring Nebula Reveals Details of a Star’s Death
Stephen Metcalf is Slate's critic at large. He is working on a book about the 1980s.
Dana Stevens is Slate's movie critic. Email her at slatemovies@gmail.com or follow her on Twitter.
Julia Turner is Slate's deputy editor and a regular on Slate's Culture Gabfest podcast.
You can email her at juliaslateturner at gmail.com or follow her on Twitter at http://twitter.com/juliaturner.
Illustration by Robert Neubecker.