Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCan 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, 6 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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 months ago
Banishing the "Bootstraps" Mythology from American Life (w/ Alissa Quart)
Episode 226
Alissa Quart is the executive director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and the author of the new book Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves f…
2 years, 7 months ago
How Come "Everyone Is Beautiful But Nobody is Horny"? (w/ R.S. Benedict)
Episode 225
R.S. Benedict is a speculative fiction writer whose popular 2021 essay "Everyone Is Beautiful But Nobody is Horny," published in Blood Knife, argued …
2 years, 7 months ago
How the U.S. "War on Terror" Spread Islamophobia Around the World (w/ Khaled Beydoun)
Episode 224
Khaled Beydoun is a professor of law at Wayne State and the author of two books, American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear and …
2 years, 7 months ago
Where "Effective Altruism" and "Longtermism" Go Wrong (w/ Émile Torres)
Episode 223
Émile P. Torres is an intellectual historian who has recently become a prominent public critic of the ideologies of "effective altruism" and "longter…
2 years, 7 months ago
How to Manipulate The Public Into Believing Corporate Lies (w/ Jennifer Jacquet)
Episode 222
Jennifer Jacquet is not actually an evil corporate consultant. She's a professor in NYU's Department of Environmental Studies and deputy director of …
2 years, 7 months ago