Current Affairs

582 Episodes

1. Why This Computer Scientist Says All Cryptocurrency Should “Die in a Fire”

   Published: 7/7/2022
2. How to Get Past the Need for Endless Economic Growth (w/ "Doughnut Economics" author Kate Raworth)

   Published: 5/31/2022
3. The Terrifying and Stupid Ideas of "Neoreactionaries"

   Published: 5/31/2022
4. Santa Claus for Alaska

   Published: 5/31/2022
5. How Do We Overcome Capitalism?

   Published: 5/31/2022
6. How Corporations Get Away With Criminality—And How to Stop Them

   Published: 5/31/2022
7. The Life and Crimes of Winston Churchill

   Published: 5/10/2022
8. A View of British Government From the Inside w/ former Labour MP Chris Mullin

   Published: 5/10/2022
9. Dr. Mark Vonnegut on the Soullessness of Modern Medicine

   Published: 5/10/2022
10. How the Amazon Labor Union Defeated the Bezos Behemoth

    Published: 5/10/2022
11. Why Are So Many Pedestrians Getting Killed in America?

    Published: 5/10/2022
12. Noam Chomsky on How to Avoid World War 3

    Published: 4/22/2022
13. How Finance Ate The Economy - w/ Grace Blakeley

    Published: 4/21/2022
14. Aviva Chomsky on Why "The Science" Isn't All We Need To Know About Climate Change

    Published: 4/21/2022
15. How Does Economics Corrupt The World? - Jonathan Aldred, author of "The Skeptical Economist"

    Published: 4/12/2022
16. Are We In The Middle of A Sexual Revolution? Journalist Laurie Penny on changes in gender relations

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

    Published: 4/12/2022
18. 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
19. 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
20. Understanding Putin's Criminal War in Ukraine - interview with Russia expert and publisher of The Nation Katrina vanden Heuvel

    Published: 3/26/2022