How many episodes does What Rough Beast have?

What Rough Beast has 46 episodes.

What topics does What Rough Beast cover?

What Rough Beast covers topics including: news, politics, society, culture, philosophy.

What Rough Beast

Virginia Heffernan and Stephen Metcalf

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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 (46)

Who pulled the trigger?

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We Found the Missing Epstein Documents

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The Memes Made Us Do It

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Episodes (46)

Who pulled the trigger?

We Found the Missing Epstein Documents

The Memes Made Us Do It

She's in the Epstein Files

The Epstein Files: The FBI Interviewed an Underage Trump Accuser

Inside the System as It Falls Apart

Dispatches from Minneapolis

The Paradox of Tolerance

On the 5th Anniversary of the Insurrection

Trump's Godfather foreign policy

Alex Karp and the Masturbating Girl: Audio

Why Smart People Keep Falling for Powerful Idiots

Harvesting chaos with Kristianna Smith

What Mark Bray Knew in 2017

The Edgelord Apocalypse

The Mitochondria Conspiracy

The Deportation Machine

The Dictator Expert Who's Not Worried

Epstein and the Swanky Leftist Compromise

How America's Freaks Switched Sides

Jon Ronson Says Culture Wars Are Over

Fear and Spectacle at ICE

How to resist the regime

Live with Nina Burleigh

Why Populist Revolutions Always Fail

'I Was MAGA. I Got Out.'

America's First Truly Radical Experiment

Empathy as Strategy: The Meidas Method

EXCLUSIVE: U.S. watchlisted as 'repressive regime'

How to Build an Opposition

Literature as Political Resistance

MAGA Eugenics

Musk's Damaged Masculinity

Pirates, Feminism, and the Future of Care

The Broligarchy Playbook

Citizen as a Verb

The Known Unknowns

Charisma Is Non-Negotiable

EXCLUSIVE: What Musk Wants Next

Reclaiming Your Attention

The Inauguration Counter-Programming Event

First They Come for the Oysters

Disrupting Decorum

Why Plant Bombs?

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