Culture Study Podcast

By Anne Helen Petersen

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Category: Society & Culture

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Subscribers: 203
Reviews: 3
Episodes: 81

LeeM
 Apr 21, 2025
AHP can pull interesting insights out of any cultural phenomenon, including those you might think are totally trivial or irrelevant (OK, I skipped a couple of v US-centric and Tswift eps). (*Substack-hosted, alas, so I wont pay a sub. )


 Aug 21, 2024


 Feb 9, 2024

Description

A podcast about the culture that surrounds you — with Anne Helen Petersen and a bunch of very smart co-hosts culturestudypod.substack.com

Episode Date
Why Is Katy Perry So Embarrassing?
Jul 09, 2025
Why Are Men's Clothes All Earth Tones
Jun 25, 2025
How Private Equity Destroys the Companies You Depend On
Jun 18, 2025
Let's Unpack Some Intensive Parenting Trends (In a Way That Will Not Make You Feel Like Crap)
Jun 11, 2025
How 2000s Culture Messed Us Up
Jun 04, 2025
What is SoCal Culture?
May 28, 2025
Everything We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Periods
May 21, 2025
The Backyard Chicken Glamour Campaign
May 14, 2025
Unlocking the Allure of Tate McRae
May 07, 2025
Boston Culture with Josh Gondelman
Apr 30, 2025
Complicating the Plastic Surgery Conversation
Apr 23, 2025
The Immersive Joy of Fan Fiction
Apr 16, 2025
How a Cookbook Gets Made
Apr 09, 2025
WTF is Spiritual Care for the Non-Religious?
Apr 02, 2025
Does Running Culture Suck?
Mar 26, 2025
Figuring Out How To Feel About 'With Love, Meghan'
Mar 19, 2025
The Irishification of Pop Culture
Mar 12, 2025
The Feminist Playground of Historical Romance
Mar 05, 2025
The Enduring Myths of Budget Culture
Feb 26, 2025
Approximately 72 Old Movies to Fall In Love With
Feb 19, 2025
The Heart of Dad Culture
Feb 12, 2025
Fake, Real, Imagined, & Projected CELEBRITY FEUDS!!!
Feb 05, 2025
Reclaiming "Self-Care" from the Brands
Jan 29, 2025
Who Gets To Ski?
Jan 22, 2025
The Wild and Banal Future of Celebrity Gossip
Jan 15, 2025
How Did Thrifting Get So Bad?
Jan 08, 2025
The Rise of Therapy Speak
Jan 01, 2025
All Your Questions About The Weird World of Kids' Toys
Dec 18, 2024
The Expansive World of Queer Romance
Dec 11, 2024
WTF is Going On With That Clothing Brand
Dec 04, 2024
Why Is It So Hard to Make a Good Blockbuster?
Nov 27, 2024
Nicole Kidman's Resting Rich Face
Nov 20, 2024
Women's Sports and Gender Panic
Nov 13, 2024
Is BookTok Actually About Reading?
Oct 30, 2024
Is the Golden Age of Podcasts Over?
Oct 23, 2024
Why Are We So Weird About Cancer?
Oct 16, 2024
Strong Opinions About Trivial Sh*t
Oct 09, 2024
The Feminine Draw of Contemporary Conspiracy
Oct 02, 2024
Will MomTok Even Survive This?!?!
Sep 25, 2024
Sapphic Pop, So Hot Right Now
Sep 18, 2024
What It's Really Like to Run a Romance Bookstore
Sep 11, 2024
Cooking in the Age of Infinite Recipes
Sep 04, 2024
The Complicated Future of Reality TV
Aug 28, 2024
An Incredibly Well-Timed Ben Affleck Episode
Aug 21, 2024
Explaining the Best and Weirdest TikTok Trends
Aug 14, 2024
A Former Trad Wife on What It Actually Takes To Leave
Aug 07, 2024
How HGTV Shapes and Refines Our Taste
Jul 31, 2024
The Beautiful Cult of Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders
Jul 24, 2024
How Romance Writers Rewrite Publishing’s Rules
Jul 17, 2024
What Does J.Lo Actually Want?
Jul 10, 2024
Big Jeans Feelings
Jun 26, 2024
Royals Gossip and Colonial Hangovers
Jun 19, 2024
The Sephora Teen Freakout
Jun 12, 2024
How Romance Novels Center Marginalized Joy
Jun 05, 2024
Are Millennials the Most Nostalgic Generation?
May 29, 2024
There Has To Be a Better Way To Shop Online
May 22, 2024
Why Do We Get So Mad at Celebrities?
May 15, 2024
How Christian Rock Fed the Culture Wars
May 08, 2024
How Did Goodreads Get So Bad?
May 01, 2024
Taylor Swift and the Tortured Poets Aesthetic
Apr 24, 2024
The Country Heart of Cowboy Carter
Apr 17, 2024
The Insidious Influence of Moms for Liberty
Apr 10, 2024
We know sitting is bad for us. But what are we supposed to do instead?
Apr 03, 2024
Come Drink From the Stanley Cup
Mar 27, 2024
The Intoxicating Ease of Kevin Bacon's Instagram
Mar 20, 2024
Student Loans Are Culture
Mar 13, 2024
The ACOTAR Chokehold
Mar 06, 2024
Your Questions About Butts, Answered
Feb 28, 2024
What's Bradley Cooper's Deal?
Feb 21, 2024
Is Divorce Actually Contagious?
Feb 14, 2024
Is Personal Coaching a Scam?
Feb 07, 2024
The Bizarre World of Celebrity Philanthropy
Jan 31, 2024
The Curious Return of 2000s Music
Jan 24, 2024
The Cult of Cold Plunging
Jan 17, 2024
The Mutated IP of the Mean Girls Reboot
Jan 10, 2024
Rich Dudes Driving in Circles
Jan 03, 2024
The Pernicious Laziness of Paw Patrol
Dec 27, 2023
Why Are We So Obsessed with Taylor + Travis?
Dec 20, 2023
We're All Infrastructure Nerds
Dec 13, 2023
Why Do Clothes Suck Now?
Dec 06, 2023
Introducing the Culture Study Podcast
Nov 27, 2023