Culture Gabfest: Eternals Return of the Same
This week, Steve and Dana are joined by New York Times columnist and Slate graduate Jamelle Bouie. First, the panel discusses Marvel\u2019s most recent big picture, Eternals\u2014which Dana reviewed for Slate. Next, the panel gives an update on their feelings about HBO\u2019s hit TV show Succession, which is currently in its third season. Finally, the panel explores the controversy involving Critical Race Theory.\nIn Slate Plus, the panel discusses Jamelle\u2019s new podcast Unclear and Present Danger.\nEmail us at culturefest@slate.com.\nEndorsements\nDana: Something small, but in hopes to find the entire thing: this 2 minute clip of Welsh actor Michael Sheen performing a segment of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas\u2019s drama Under Milk Wood.\nJamelle: Norman Jewison\u2019s classic 1987 film Moonstruck, starring Cher and Nicolas Cage, which is currently in the Criterion Collection.\nSteve: A slightly odd endorsement of a book review. Peter Salmon\u2019s article for Prospect Magazine, titled \u201cBoo to the Boo-Hurrahs: how four Oxford women transformed philosophy,\u201d is a review of Benjamin J. B. Lipscomb\u2019s novel The Women Are Up to Something: How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized Ethics. The book and review discuss the female-led movement to take on the male consensus in philosophy during the 1930s and \u201840s which saw the world as value free.\nPodcast production by Cameron Drews. Production assistance by Nadira Goffe.\nOutro music is \u201cSelf Made Woman\u201d by Katharine Appleton.\nSlate Plus members get ad-free podcasts, a bonus segment in each episode of the Culture Gabfest, full access to Slate's journalism on Slate.com, and more. Sign up now\xa0at slate.com/cultureplus.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices