Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWhy Does The Law Fail Women So Badly? (w/ Julie Suk)
Episode 237
Julie Suk is a professor of law at Fordham University. Her new book After Misogyny: How the Law Fails Women and What to Do about It is about why the …
2 years, 3 months ago
Are "Family Values" The Problem? (w/ Sophie Lewis)
Episode 236
Sophie Lewis is a radical critic of the family. In Lewis's books, Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family and Abolish The Family, she argues that…
2 years, 3 months ago
Why Our Healthcare System Needs to Do More than Just "Fairly" Distribute Scarce Resources (w/ Lily Sánchez)
Episode 235
Lily Sánchez is the managing editor of Current Affairs, and also a physician. In a new article for the magazine, Lily draws on her experiences practi…
2 years, 3 months ago
Understanding Reactionary Political Philosophy (w/ Matt McManus)
Episode 234
Today we are joined by political philosopher Matt McManus of the University of Michigan. Matt has contributed to Current Affairs and collaborated wit…
2 years, 3 months ago
Why the Labor Movement Needs to be Creative and Disruptive (w/ Jono Shaffer)
Episode 233
Jono Shaffer is a legendary labor organizer who was instrumental in the Justice for Janitors campaign. J4J successfully unionized Los Angeles janitor…
2 years, 3 months ago
Can Our Times Even Be Satirized? (w/ Matt Bors and Ben Clarkson)
Episode 232
Ben Clarkson is an illustrator and animator who has produced work for some of the best magazines in the country, including our own Current Affairs. M…
2 years, 3 months ago
How The "Big Myth" That Markets Will Solve Everything Was Foisted on the World
Episode 231
Naomi Oreskes is a historian of science at Harvard University. Erik M. Conway works as the historian at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Together th…
2 years, 3 months ago
How to Win Every Argument (w/ Mehdi Hasan)
Episode 230
Mehdi Hasan, who hosts The Mehdi Hasan Show on MSNBC, is known as one of the most formidable interviewers in journalism. He has tangled with Blackwat…
2 years, 3 months ago
Lessons for Today's Movements from the Radical "Young Lords" (w/ Johanna Fernández)
Episode 229
Johanna Fernández is a historian of social movements who is the author of The Young Lords: A Radical History, a deeply researched history of one of t…
2 years, 3 months ago
How Right-Wing Propaganda Gives People "Brain Worms" (w/ Adam Glenn)
Episode 227
Adam Glenn is a Current Affairs reader who has produced a free online book called Brain Worms: How Right-Wing Propaganda Destroys Reason, Conscience,…
2 years, 3 months ago