Current Affairs

581 Episodes

1. Why You Should Join a Club (w/ Rebecca and Pete Davis)

   Published: 8/23/2024
2. Who Killed New York City? (w/ Jeremiah Moss)

   Published: 8/21/2024
3. Why Did We Invade Iraq? (w/ Dennis Fritz)

   Published: 8/19/2024
4. Understanding Biden's Foreign Policy (w/ Richard Beck)

   Published: 8/16/2024
5. How to Read Nietzsche (And How The Left Should Feel About Him)

   Published: 8/14/2024
6. How Fox News Turns People Terrified and Paranoid (w/ Kat Abughazaleh)

   Published: 8/9/2024
7. Jeffrey Sachs on What's Wrong With U.S. Foreign Policy

   Published: 8/7/2024
8. What Biden's Changes to Asylum Mean For Immigrants

   Published: 8/5/2024
9. How "Pharmacy Benefit Managers" Are Extorting Us (w/ Max from UNFTR)

   Published: 8/2/2024
10. Why Everyone Feels So Rotten About the Economy (w/ Kyla Scanlon)

    Published: 7/31/2024
11. Nuclear Countdown, or, Why We Need to Start Worrying and Stop the Bomb

    Published: 7/29/2024
12. Why No One Gets To Retire Anymore (w/ Teresa Ghilarducci)

    Published: 7/26/2024
13. The Authoritarian Nightmare Donald Trump Is Planning (w/ Radley Balko)

    Published: 7/24/2024
14. What Americans Don't Know About Iran (w/ John Ghazvinian)

    Published: 7/22/2024
15. Is It 1968 All Over Again? (w/ Charles Kaiser)

    Published: 7/19/2024
16. The Toxic Legacy of Martin Peretz’s New Republic (w/ Jeet Heer)

    Published: 7/17/2024
17. Jonathan Kozol on the Scandal of America's Apartheid Education System

    Published: 7/15/2024
18. How Corporations Suck the Welfare State Dry (w/ Anne Kim)

    Published: 7/12/2024
19. Why Thomas Sowell is a Terrible Economist (w/ Cahal Moran)

    Published: 7/10/2024
20. Why Do We Have a "Viral Underclass"? (w/ Steven Thrasher)

    Published: 7/9/2024