Current Affairs

572 Episodes

1. What Happens to the Disappointed When Social Movements Fail? (w/ Sara Marcus)

   Published: 1/26/2024
2. The Disaster of Privatizing Everything (w/ Donald Cohen)

   Published: 1/24/2024
3. The Process of Leaving Jordan Peterson Behind (w/ Benjamin Howard)

   Published: 1/22/2024
4. How The Super-Rich Really Live (w/ Michael Mechanic)

   Published: 1/19/2024
5. How to Explain Socialism To People Who Aren't Socialists (w/ Danny Katch)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Published: 12/1/2023