Current Affairs

564 Episodes

1. Jeffrey Sachs On Why He Concluded COVID-19 Probably Came From a Lab (And Why Nobody Wants to Talk About It)

   Published: 8/19/2022
2. Why Children Make Such Good Philosophers

   Published: 8/19/2022
3. The Life of Murray Bookchin / Revolution in Rojava

   Published: 8/19/2022
4. How Much Is a Whale Worth? (w/ Adrienne Buller)

   Published: 8/19/2022
5. The Wonderful World of Animal Senses and How They Expand Our View of The Universe (w/ Ed Yong)

   Published: 8/19/2022
6. Have the Suburbs Ruined Everything? (w/ Bill McKibben)

   Published: 7/31/2022
7. A Set of Progressive Economic Principles That Can Actually Win Elections

   Published: 7/31/2022
8. A Neuroscientist Critiques the Dangerous "Populist" Pseudoscience of Yuval Noah Harari

   Published: 7/31/2022
9. Cory Doctorow on The Wondrous World of the Early Internet & How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism

   Published: 7/31/2022
10. Debunking The Right's Bad History of Abortion Laws w/ Leslie Reagan

    Published: 7/20/2022
11. Robin D.G. Kelley on the Importance of Utopian Visions for Social Movements

    Published: 7/20/2022
12. The 20-Year Catastrophe of the War In Afghanistan

    Published: 7/20/2022
13. Oxford and the Making of the British Ruling Class

    Published: 7/7/2022
14. Why Web3 Is Going Just Great (w/ Molly White)

    Published: 7/7/2022
15. Thinking About Police After Uvalde and the San Francisco Prosecutor Recall (w/ Alex Vitale)

    Published: 7/7/2022
16. Unearthing Queer History in America

    Published: 7/7/2022
17. Destroying Democracy in Education: The Case of New Orleans

    Published: 7/7/2022
18. How To Create Beautiful Places - A guide to the work of the late Christopher Alexander

    Published: 7/7/2022
19. Current Affairs Book Club: The Novels of Sally Rooney

    Published: 7/7/2022
20. How Can We Plan a Viable Eco-Socialist Future That Everyone Likes?

    Published: 7/7/2022