Current Affairs

528 Episodes

1. How Come "Everyone Is Beautiful But Nobody is Horny"? (w/ R.S. Benedict)

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

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

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

   Published: 11/13/2023
5. How U.S. Foreign Policy Is Making War With China More Likely (w/ Van Jackson)

   Published: 11/10/2023
6. How to Spot Pseudoscience About Sex Differences (w/ Cordelia Fine)

   Published: 11/8/2023
7. How to Respond to The Right—Introducing Nathan's New Book!

   Published: 11/6/2023
8. What Living Under Jim Crow Was Like In New Orleans (w/ Adolph Reed)

   Published: 11/3/2023
9. Why Is The Internet So Broken? What Would a "People's Internet" Look Like? (w/ Ben Tarnoff)

   Published: 11/1/2023
10. Exposing the Corporate "Mindfulness" Racket (w/ Ronald Purser)

    Published: 10/30/2023
11. Understanding The Right's Never-Ending War to Destroy Social Security (w/ Alex Lawson)

    Published: 10/26/2023
12. How To Hold The New York Times Accountable (w/ Margaret Sullivan)

    Published: 5/2/2023
13. The Pseudoscience and Faux Feminism of Sobriety Memoirs (w/ Jennifer Dines)

    Published: 4/24/2023
14. The Dysfunctions of Our "Democracy" and How To Fix Them (w/ Tom Geoghegan)

    Published: 4/17/2023
15. STAY WOKE: Vital Lessons From Black Musical History (w/ Samuel James)

    Published: 3/27/2023
16. The Entirely Predictable Collapse of FTX and the Future of Crypto Cons (w/ Stephen Diehl)

    Published: 11/29/2022
17. Why Socialism and Trans Liberation Need Each Other (w/ Shon Faye)

    Published: 11/29/2022
18. How a Marine Became a Critic of U.S. Imperialism (w/ Lyle Jeremy Rubin)

    Published: 11/29/2022
19. Why The Market Is Not The Economy (w/ Nomi Prins)

    Published: 11/29/2022
20. What Happens When McKinsey Shows Up?

    Published: 11/29/2022