Welcome to The United States of Anxiety: Culture Wars

Notes from America with Kai Wright

WNYC Studios

News Commentary, Politics, History, News

4.4 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2017

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

The United States of Anxiety: Culture Wars introduces you to people who have been battling to shape America’s political culture for decades. We profile culture warriors, past and present, who have influenced debates over race, religion, science, sexuality, gender and more. We connect those debates to real people, with real stakes in the outcome. We’re filling in the blanks – aiming to answer questions you didn’t even know you had – and we’re asking, What are you willing to fight for? The United States of Anxiety is hosted by Kai Wright and produced by WNYC Studios. Listen to more shows from WNYC Studios: http://wny.cc/yzc4304odXp WNYC Studios is the producer of other leading podcasts including Freakonomics, Radiolab, Here's The Thing with Alec Baldwin and many more.

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0:00.0	We left you on November 10th, 2016 what feels like eons ago.
0:07.0	I Donald John Trump do solemnly swear.
0:10.0	He won all of it.
0:12.0	This is not a Muslim band, it's not a travel band.
0:16.0	Our press secretary gave alternative facts to that.
0:20.0	For the first time ever, the Dow Jones closed above 20,000 points.
0:24.0	Donald Trump has now been president for 100 nerve-wracking days so we are back to take stock.
0:38.0	I'm Ky right and from WNYC studios this is round two of the United States of anxiety. The Culture was. For the next several weeks we're not going to talk at all here about the grind of daily
1:06.4	controversies that have filled the past four months.
1:09.3	If you're like me, you're already reaching exhaustion on that front. We actually won't even talk much about
1:13.8	Donald Trump. Rather, we want to discuss something Trump seems to understand
1:18.2	about American politics, or maybe it's even broader than American politics, maybe it's
1:22.4	humanity overall.
1:24.3	He gets this one important thing about us.
1:27.5	And the best way I can explain that thing
1:30.1	is this iconic scene from the Devil Wears Prada.
1:33.0	Oh, okay, I see, you think this has nothing to do with you.
1:39.0	It's the one where Miranda Priestley, Merrill Streep's character of course,
1:42.0	is annoyed with her new assistant,
1:44.4	Andy, who thinks she's too good for fashion.
1:47.8	Miranda Schools her.
1:49.0	You go to your closet and you select, I don't know, that lumpy blue sweater for instance.
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