Current Affairs

564 Episodes

1. Why Americans Don't See Or Talk About Their Wars (w/ Norman Solomon)

   Published: 1/8/2024
2. What "Economic Freedom" Would Look Like (w/ Mark Paul)

   Published: 1/5/2024
3. Can The Love of Menswear Be Justified? (w/ Sam Miller McDonald)

   Published: 1/3/2024
4. On Musical Plagiarism: The Case of Ed Sheeran vs. Marvin Gaye

   Published: 12/20/2023
5. How Socialists Took Over The Cities (w/ Shelton Stromquist)

   Published: 12/18/2023
6. Why Does The Law Fail Women So Badly? (w/ Julie Suk)

   Published: 12/15/2023
7. Are "Family Values" The Problem? (w/ Sophie Lewis)

   Published: 12/13/2023
8. Why Our Healthcare System Needs to Do More than Just "Fairly" Distribute Scarce Resources (w/ Lily Sánchez)

   Published: 12/11/2023
9. Understanding Reactionary Political Philosophy (w/ Matt McManus)

   Published: 12/8/2023
10. Why the Labor Movement Needs to be Creative and Disruptive (w/ Jono Shaffer)

    Published: 12/6/2023
11. Can Our Times Even Be Satirized? (w/ Matt Bors and Ben Clarkson)

    Published: 12/4/2023
12. How The "Big Myth" That Markets Will Solve Everything Was Foisted on the World

    Published: 12/1/2023
13. How to Win Every Argument (w/ Mehdi Hasan)

    Published: 11/29/2023
14. Lessons for Today's Movements from the Radical "Young Lords" (w/ Johanna Fernández)

    Published: 11/27/2023
15. How Right-Wing Propaganda Gives People "Brain Worms" (w/ Adam Glenn)

    Published: 11/24/2023
16. Banishing the "Bootstraps" Mythology from American Life (w/ Alissa Quart)

    Published: 11/22/2023
17. How Come "Everyone Is Beautiful But Nobody is Horny"? (w/ R.S. Benedict)

    Published: 11/20/2023
18. How the U.S. "War on Terror" Spread Islamophobia Around the World (w/ Khaled Beydoun)

    Published: 11/17/2023
19. Where "Effective Altruism" and "Longtermism" Go Wrong (w/ Émile Torres)

    Published: 11/15/2023
20. How to Manipulate The Public Into Believing Corporate Lies (w/ Jennifer Jacquet)

    Published: 11/13/2023