Current Affairs

567 Episodes

1. Are We In The Middle of A Sexual Revolution? Journalist Laurie Penny on changes in gender relations

   Published: 4/12/2022
2. How Radical Teachers are Re-Igniting the Labor Movement - labor studies professor Eric Blanc on the Minneapolis strike

   Published: 4/12/2022
3. How Pentecostal Christianity Is Taking Over The World - an interview with Elle Hardy, journalist and author of "Beyond Belief: How Pentecostal Christianity is Taking over the World"

   Published: 4/1/2022
4. SPECIAL: How Leftists Can Run, Win, and Govern - featuring interviews with six Democratic Socialists who have been elected to public office

   Published: 4/1/2022
5. Understanding Putin's Criminal War in Ukraine - interview with Russia expert and publisher of The Nation Katrina vanden Heuvel

   Published: 3/26/2022
6. How Companies Make Us Worship Our Work - interview with Carolyn Chen, author of "Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes a Religion in Silicon Valley"

   Published: 3/26/2022
7. "How Are You Going To Pay For That?" and Other Dumb Political Questions - interview with Ryan Cooper, managing editor of The American Prospect

   Published: 3/26/2022
8. How To Be A Foreign Correspondent Without Swallowing Propaganda - interview with Patrick Cockburn, Middle East correspondent for The Independent, about his decades as a foreign correspondent

   Published: 3/16/2022
9. How Bill Gates Makes The World Worse Off

   Published: 3/16/2022
10. Astonishingly, There IS An Alternative! Interview with Yanis Varoufakis, former Finance Minister of Greece about his book "Another Now"

    Published: 3/11/2022
11. Why Suppressing "Fake News" Can't Fix Our Journalism Crisis

    Published: 3/3/2022
12. What Policing Looks Like From The Inside

    Published: 3/3/2022
13. War Zones & Prisons: The Places We Hide Suffering and The Ways We Rationalize It

    Published: 2/24/2022
14. How Do Hedge Fund Managers Justify Their Existence?

    Published: 2/24/2022
15. How To Think Sensibly About Apocalypse and Catastrophe

    Published: 2/16/2022
16. Why Is Climate Communication So Impossible and Frustrating?

    Published: 2/16/2022
17. Our Era of Scams & Hype: From the Fyre Festival to Trump's Career to NFTs

    Published: 2/10/2022
18. How Did Anyone Ever Believe WeWork's BS?

    Published: 2/3/2022
19. Is The International Criminal Court a Functional Institution?

    Published: 2/3/2022
20. Is Mocking the Deaths of Anti-Vaxxers "Necessary"? Or Cruel and Useless?

    Published: 2/3/2022