Culture Gabfest

Slate's Culture Gabfest with Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner. In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the rollout of the summer movie season, including the superhero movie Iron Man, Robert Downey Jr.'s nimble performance in it, Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slate.com/podcastfaqs for easy instructions. Memb...

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the viability of personal virtue to solve global warming, the possible failure of personal virtue in the travel writing business and the utter failure of personal virtue inside Abu Ghraib prison. Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slate.com/podcastfaqs for easy instructions. Members subs...

The Slate Cultural Gabfest, with Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner. This week, our critics discuss Vogue magazine’s King Kong redux, Hillary’s millions, and the latest in nerd verite, the online sitcom, The Guild. Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slate.com/podcastfaqs for easy instructions. Members subscribed via Apple Pod...

The Slate Cultural Gabfest, with Stephen Metcalf, John Swansburg and Meghan O'Rourke. Our critics discuss Obama’s big speech, Bear Stearns’ big meltdown, plus the deconstruction of the university English department. Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slate.com/podcastfaqs for easy instructions. Members subscribed via Apple Podcasts get au...

The Slate Cultural Gabfest, with Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and John Swansburg. Our newest podcast feature returns just in time to take on the colossal fall from grace of New York governor Elliot Spitzer. Our critics also weigh in on famous fabulists, and a Web site so white, you'll need SPF 100 just to listen. Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out...

The Slate Cultural Gabfest, with Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner. We're back for another outing with Slate's cultural critics. This week they train their sights on the Oscars aftermath, the trouble with mocking Obama, and why young starlets should choose their photo shoots more carefully. Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at...

The popularity of Slate's Political Gabfest over the last two years has prompted us to try a variation on the theme: a Cultural Gabfest, featuring some of Slate's best critics batting around the week's cultural happenings. Our first edition features Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner. Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slate....