The Culture Gabfest, the Origin of Speciousness Edition
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In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Mike Pesca, and Dana Stevens discuss the new Charles Darwin biopic, Creation; Jon Stewart's take on Keith Olbermann; the death of Air America; and, finally, the announcement that the New York Times Web site will soon erect a pay wall.
Here are links to some of the articles and other items mentioned in the show.
The official Web page for director Jane Campion's Bright Star.
Reviews of the new biopic Creation on Rotten Tomatoes.
The February Vanity Fair article on the Creation Museum in Kentucky.
Jon Stewart's complete takedown of Keith Olbermann on The Daily Show.
Keith Olbermann's response to Jon Stewart on MSNBC.
The nuts and bolts of how the New York Times pay wall will work.
Felix Salmon attempts to explain the pay wall.
The Culture Gabfest weekly endorsements:
Dana's picks: A re-endorsement of "A History of the World in Objects" on the BBC. And two Charles Darwin fan sites—Darwin Online and the Darwin Correspondence Project.
Mike's picks: The new PBS series Sound Tracks; listen to the Kazakhstan symphony composed by Borat's brother. And the podcast "The Sporkful."
Stephen's picks: Gjertrud Schnackenberg's poem "Darwin in 1881" from her collection The Lamplit Answer. And Rutgers philosophy and psychology professor Jerry Fodor's issues with Darwinism in the London Review of Books.
You can e-mail us at culturefest@slate.com.
Stephen Metcalf is Slate's critic at large. He is working on a book about the 1980s.
Mike Pesca is a correspondent for National Public Radio who covers mostly sports.
Dana Stevens is Slate's movie critic. Email her at slatemovies@gmail.com or follow her on Twitter.
Illustration by Robert Neubecker.