What Rough Beast
Virginia Heffernan and Stephen Metcalf
What Rough Beast, hosted by Virginia Heffernan (Wired, Trumpcast) and Stephen Metcalf (Slate, Culture Gabfest) is a podcast where we bear witness to America’s demise, and ask what might be built from the rubble. The sludge. The sparkly phosphorescent faerie dust of recombinant DNA.It is a spiritual successor to Trumpcast, but with a radical reimagining. Instead of focusing on opposing Trump or trusting institutions, this podcast explores imaginative, unexpected responses to our current political...
Episodes (58)
Green Shoots and Red Flags
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Rescheduled! Live with Virginia Heffernan at 5 pm today!
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Omnishambles Live with Aidan Walker
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EXCLUSIVE: New Republic columnist Virginia Heffernan on Epstein and Armageddon i...
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If AI-Enabled Weapons Are So Smart, Why Do They Keep Hitting Schools?
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What does the Iranian Lego propaganda really say about the U.S.?
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Is Silicon Valley manufacturing desk killers?
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Who pulled the trigger?
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Inside the System as It Falls Apart
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We Found the Missing Epstein Documents
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She's in the Epstein Files
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The Memes Made Us Do It
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She's in the Epstein Files
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The Epstein Files: The FBI Interviewed an Underage Trump Accuser
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Inside the System as It Falls Apart
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Dispatches from Minneapolis
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The Memes Made Us Do It
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We Found the Missing Epstein Documents
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The Paradox of Tolerance
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The Paradox of Tolerance
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On the 5th Anniversary of the Insurrection
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Trump's Godfather foreign policy
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Alex Karp and the Masturbating Girl: Audio
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Why Smart People Keep Falling for Powerful Idiots
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Harvesting chaos with Kristianna Smith
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What Mark Bray Knew in 2017
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The Edgelord Apocalypse
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The Mitochondria Conspiracy
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The Deportation Machine
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The Dictator Expert Who's Not Worried
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Epstein and the Swanky Leftist Compromise
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How America's Freaks Switched Sides
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Jon Ronson Says Culture Wars Are Over
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Fear and Spectacle at ICE
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How to resist the regime
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Live with Nina Burleigh
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Why Populist Revolutions Always Fail
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'I Was MAGA. I Got Out.'
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America's First Truly Radical Experiment
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Empathy as Strategy: The Meidas Method
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EXCLUSIVE: U.S. watchlisted as 'repressive regime'
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How to Build an Opposition
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Literature as Political Resistance
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MAGA Eugenics
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Musk's Damaged Masculinity
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Pirates, Feminism, and the Future of Care
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The Broligarchy Playbook
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Citizen as a Verb
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The Known Unknowns
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Charisma Is Non-Negotiable
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