Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHow Did the Idea of Being "Self-Made" Come About? (w/ Tara Isabella Burton)
Episode 262
Tara Isabella Burton is a novelist and the author of the new nonfiction book Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians, a h…
2 years, 4 months ago
Our Plan to Make It Actually Enjoyable to Read The News
Episode 261
Current Affairs has recently launched a new project: the Current Affairs News Briefing, a twice-weekly digest of important (and often neglected) news…
2 years, 4 months ago
The Role of Drugs in American Life (w/ Benjamin Fong)
Episode 260
Benjamin Y. Fong is the associate director of the Center for Work & Democracy at Arizona State University and the author of the new book Quick Fixes:…
2 years, 4 months ago
The History of Arab-Jews Can Change Our Understanding of The World (w/ Avi Shlaim)
Episode 259
Avi Shlaim is a distinguished historian and Emeritus Professor of International Relations at Oxford University. He is one of the Israeli "New Histori…
2 years, 4 months ago
A HEATED Encounter with Chris Rufo: Critical Race Theory, The Left, and American History
Episode 258
Originally aired 7/23/2023. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs !
Today we have another in our Contentious Arguments series, as Natha…
2 years, 4 months ago
The Dark Side of Fashion (w/ Alyssa Hardy)
Episode 257
Alyssa Hardy is a fashion journalist whose work has turned in recent years to exposing the underbelly of the industry, from the labor conditions of t…
2 years, 4 months ago
How To Make Schools That Children Actually Enjoy Going To (w/ Lauren Fadiman)
Episode 256
School sucks. But why? And must it? For our print magazine, Lauren Fadiman writes about how radical leftists have historically tried to rethink schoo…
2 years, 4 months ago
How Rupert Murdoch Killed The Only Good Social Media Platform (w/ Michael Tedder)
Episode 255
Perhaps only those between the ages of about 30 and 35 will remember the golden years of MySpace, which dominated social media before Facebook, Twitt…
2 years, 4 months ago
How Labor Can Drive a Hard Bargain (w/ Jane McAlevey and Abby Lawlor)
Episode 254
On this program, we have previously discussed the inspiring fight waged by the Amazon Labor Union on Staten Island, and the confrontational tactics t…
2 years, 4 months ago
Learning From Neglected Novels By 1900s Radicals (w/ the Rickard Sisters)
Episode 253
The Rickard Sisters, Sophie and Scarlett, have produced two wonderful graphic novel adaptations of books by early 20th century radicals. First they m…
2 years, 5 months ago