311. Meghan Daum The Problem With Everything: My Journey Through the New Culture Wars

Published: Dec. 20, 2022, 8 a.m.

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Shermer and Daum discuss: unauthorized autobiography \\u2022 Feminism (first, second, third wave, and beyond) \\u2022 Was the sexual revolution good or bad (or both) for women? \\u2022 badassery, problematica, wokescenti, cognoscenti \\u2022 Gen Xers \\u2022 Elders \\u2022 What is a woman? \\u2022 Sex and Gender \\u2022 who you identify as vs. who you\\u2019re attracted to \\u2022 Trans \\u2022 #metoo and #BLM movements \\u2022 intersectionality \\u2022 toxic masculinity \\u2022 wokeness, liberal vs. progressiveness, far left vs. left \\u2022 cancel culture, and political tribalism.

Meghan Daum is the author of six books, most recently The Problem With Everything: My Journey Through the New Culture Wars. Her collection of original essays, The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion, won the 2015 Pen Center USA Award for creative nonfiction. A Los Angeles Times opinion columnist from 2005 to 2016, Meghan has written for numerous magazines, including The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, and Vogue. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts grant and has taught Columbia University in addition to teaching private workshops in personal essay, memoir and opinion writing. Meghan is the host of the weekly interview podcast, The Unspeakable and the cohost, with Sarah Haider, of the weekly podcast A Special Place in Hell. Meghan founded The Unspeakeasy, an intellectual community for freethinking women. Her current writings are on Substack.

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