Current Affairs

528 Episodes

1. How to Explain Socialism To People Who Aren't Socialists (w/ Danny Katch)

   Published: 1/17/2024
2. Exposing the Spurious Anti-Semitism Accusations That Helped Bring Down Corbyn (w/ Asa Winstanley)

   Published: 1/15/2024
3. Dreaming of a World Without Wells Fargo (w/ Terri Friedline)

   Published: 1/12/2024
4. How "Influencing" Became an Industry (w/ Emily Hund)

   Published: 1/10/2024
5. Why Americans Don't See Or Talk About Their Wars (w/ Norman Solomon)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Published: 11/22/2023