Current Affairs

575 Episodes

1. Why the Labor Movement Needs to be Creative and Disruptive (w/ Jono Shaffer)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Published: 4/24/2023