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Back to SearchHow Do We Actually Dismantle Mass Incarceration?
Episode 344
This episode originally aired on August 20, 2024. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!
It's long been recognized that the U.S. criminal punishment system is aberrational, cruel, and b…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
An Israeli Journalist Excoriates His Country's Destruction of Gaza
Episode 343
This episode originally aired on August 15, 2024. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!
Gideon levy is one of Israel's leading dissident journalists. His new book The Killing of Gaza: …
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
What Keir Starmer Means for Britain (w/ Oliver Eagleton)
Episode 342
This episode originally aired August 7, 2024. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!
Keir Starmer took the place of Jeremy Corbyn as the leader of the UK Labour Party, and recently beca…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
How Dehumanization Happens (w/ David Livingstone Smith)
Episode 341
This episode originally aired on August 2, 2024. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!
David Livingstone Smith is one of the leading scholars of dehumanization in the world, the author…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
Do Anarchism and Islam Go Together? (w/ Mohamed Abdou)
Episode 340
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In popular American stereotypes, Islam is a religion of submission, with right-wing politicians demagoguing about the supposed authoritarianism an…
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
Why You Should Join a Club (w/ Rebecca and Pete Davis)
Episode 339
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Today on the Current Affairs podcast, we're joined by two filmmakers, one of whom will be well known to longtime podcast listeners. Pete Davis fou…
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
Who Killed New York City? (w/ Jeremiah Moss)
Episode 338
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Jeremiah Moss (pseudonym of Griffin Hansbury) is the author of two books, Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul and Feral City: On Fi…
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
Why Did We Invade Iraq? (w/ Dennis Fritz)
Episode 337
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Dennis Fritz is the author of the new book Deadly Betrayal: The Truth About Why the United States Invaded Iraq(OR Books), which dives into the his…
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
Understanding Biden's Foreign Policy (w/ Richard Beck)
Episode 336
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Richard Beck is a senior writer for N+1 magazine and the author of the forthcoming book Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life. His recent a…
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
How to Read Nietzsche (And How The Left Should Feel About Him)
Episode 335
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Friedrich Nietzsche was one of the most influential philosophers of all time. Interestingly, thinkers on both the right and left have found inspir…
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago