Current Affairs

581 Episodes

1. On Musical Plagiarism: The Case of Ed Sheeran vs. Marvin Gaye

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Published: 11/6/2023