Isaac Butler
Brow Beat
The Most Terrifying Show on Netflix Is a Children’s Cartoon Called LarvaIts heroes freeze to death in urine and drown in snot. It gets worse.
The Gist
The Kavanaugh ConspiracyHow Brett Kavanaugh perpetuated the conspiracy of a Democratic hit job.
Mom and Dad Are Fighting
Mom and Dad Are Fighting: The Recovering Fruit Bat EditionBreaking into teens’ phones and sleep-resistant tots on Slate’s parenting podcast.
Wide Angle
Once More Unto the Echo ChamberPod Save America will never challenge the way its listeners think. That doesn’t mean it’s not valuable.
Lend Me Your Ears
Lend Me Your Ears: Measure for MeasureWhy it’s still difficult to reckon with the ethics of Shakespeare’s darkest comedy.
Wide Angle
Taylor Sheridan Isn’t the Next Great American ScreenwriterHe’s the next Nic Pizzolatto, and Sicario: Day of the Soldado is his True Detective Season 2.
Culture Gabfest
The Culture Gabfest “Unkindest Cut of All” EditionSlate’s Culture Gabfest on Hereditary, The Staircase, and Lend Me Your Ears.
Mom and Dad Are Fighting
Mom and Dad Are Fighting: “Great Grandma Name Debate” EditionDoes a grandma get to name herself “Nema”?
Lend Me Your Ears
Lend Me Your EarsIntroducing Slate’s new podcast miniseries on Shakespeare and politics.
Brow Beat
Barry’s Class ActThe HBO series’ hit-man-goes-to-acting-school conceit gives way to a subtle satire on the lust for fame.
Brow Beat
Errol Morris on His Movie—and Long Friendship—With Stephen HawkingThe Brief History of Time filmmaker remembers one-liners, lobster dinners, and the time the astrophysicist offered to speak to his son’s math teacher about a grade.
Wide Angle
Angels in North CarolinaHow one Southern theater won a culture battle but lost the culture wars.
Culture Gabfest
The Culture Gabfest “Werewolf Bar Mitzvah” EditionSlate’s Culture Gabfest on Halloween, The Haunting of Hill House, and women in horror.
Lend Me Your Ears
Lend Me Your Ears: CoriolanusShakespeare’s final tragedy is about authenticity, compromise, and the struggle between the elites and the populists.
Brow Beat
Anthony Hopkins’ King Lear Is Cracking Good EntertainmentA truly great version might be impossible, but this streamlined take is exquisitely acted.
Lend Me Your Ears
Lend Me Your Ears: OthelloHow Shakespeare’s domestic tragedy has changed radically over time, even as the words have stayed the same.
Culture Gabfest
The Culture Gabfest “You Will Never Be Enough” EditionSlate’s Culture Gabfest on Crazy Rich Asians, Younger, and Elon Musk.
Lend Me Your Ears
Lend Me Your Ears: King LearWhat happens when your country is run by an aging narcissist who may not be entirely stable?
Lend Me Your Ears
Did Richard II Provoke an Elizabethan Rebellion?Why Shakespearians are obsessed with one 1601 performance.
Lend Me Your Ears
Lend Me Your Ears: Richard IIWhich is the more legitimate king—the one chosen by God or the one chosen by the people?
Trumpcast
The Psychic Tyranny of Shakespeare’s TyrantsHow the work of the playwright is useful to understanding our modern politics.
Lend Me Your Ears
Lend Me Your Ears: Julius CaesarWhy was Shakespeare so fascinated by the fall of the Roman Republic?
Culture Gabfest
The Culture Gabfest “The Great Work Begins” EditionSlate’s Culture Gabfest on Angels in America, The World Only Spins Forward, and Love, Simon.
Culture Gabfest
The Culture Gabfest “Trundle-Tail Dog” EditionSlate’s Culture Gabfest on BPM, Babylon Berlin, and Shakespeare’s plagiarism.