With Diabolical Lies, Pop Culture Discourse Breaks Left

A new female-coded pop culture podcast called Diabolical Lies answers the age-old question: Is it possible to have opinions about both Chappell Roan and Friedrich Engels?

Katie Gatti Tassin and Caro Claire Burke cohost the Diabolical Lies podcast. (Courtesy of Katie Gatti Tassin)


If you’ve noticed that the Right’s female beauty standards switched overnight from realtor mom to blackshirt Barbie and are wondering what this augurs for American politics, we have just the podcast for you.

Diabolical Lies is a one-stop shop for Blake Lively content and J. D. Vance skewerings. It’s the only podcast where you can hear passionate discourse on both Taylor Swift’s rumored fillers and Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis’s writings on technofeudalism. One typical episode on “the yassification of Christian Nationalism” dives deep into the connections between venture capitalist Peter Thiel’s ominous financial moves and Mormon tradwife influencers like Ballerina Farm. You will hear breakdowns of Chappell Roan fan drama, and you will hear comparative analyses of the American and Nordic welfare states, and they will be miraculously connected.

In summary, Diabolical Lies is a show for smart women who enjoy pop culture and have also noticed that everyone seems to be eating out of the trash can of ideology. If that sounds like you, head over to their Substack and enjoy this paid subscription discount specifically for Jacobin readers.

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