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What’s wrong with men: A look at Michael Douglas movies with Jessa Crispin

Michael Douglas has gun pointed at him in scene from the film 'Basic Instinct', 1992.
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Michael Douglas in Paul Verhoeven’s ‘Basic Instinct.’

You hear a lot about the ongoing American crisis , , , right? You see lots of headlines about how we got here, what caused all this, where the crisis came from.

Well, the cultural critic Jessa Crispin thinks we can all learn a lot about all of this by looking at … Michael Douglas movies.

And I mean, that sounds like a show we’d do, doesn’t it? And so here we are.

Crispin joins us for the hour.

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