Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSTAY WOKE: Vital Lessons From Black Musical History (w/ Samuel James)
Episode 200
“There’s an old adage ‘He who forgets history is condemned to repeat it.’ But what’s missing in that phrase is that there are the people who are in c…
3 years, 3 months ago
The Entirely Predictable Collapse of FTX and the Future of Crypto Cons (w/ Stephen Diehl)
Episode 199
One of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges, FTX, recently imploded spectacularly. Its CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried, had been called "the next Warr…
3 years, 7 months ago
Why Socialism and Trans Liberation Need Each Other (w/ Shon Faye)
Episode 198
Shon Faye is the author of the book The Transgender Issue: Trans Justice is Justice For All, available from Verso. The title of the book is meant sli…
3 years, 7 months ago
How a Marine Became a Critic of U.S. Imperialism (w/ Lyle Jeremy Rubin)
Episode 197
Lyle Jeremy Rubin is a veteran of the U.S. Marines who served in Afghanistan. He is the author of the new memoir Pain is Weakness Leaving the Body: A…
3 years, 7 months ago
Why The Market Is Not The Economy (w/ Nomi Prins)
Episode 196
Nomi Prins is one of the country's leading financial journalists, who has gone from working on Wall Street to exposing the inner workings of the econ…
3 years, 7 months ago
What Happens When McKinsey Shows Up?
Episode 195
McKinsey & Co. is the world's leading consulting company. But it also does a lot of work that's, well, pretty downright sinister, and it's very secre…
3 years, 7 months ago
The Editors Take a MasterClass: Anna Wintour Edition
Episode 194
The editorial team of Current Affairs is fascinated by the online learning platform MasterClass, on which A-list celebrities offer “classes” that are…
3 years, 7 months ago
Why Our Wars Never End (w/ Chris Hedges)
Episode 193
Chris Hedges, who appeared on this program a few months back after the publication of his book Our Class, returns to discuss his powerful new book Th…
3 years, 7 months ago
A Merciless Intellectual Brawl Between a YIMBY and a "Left NIMBY"
Episode 191
For some time, Nathan has been critical of the "YIMBY" (Yes In My Backyard) movement, which takes stances on housing policy that are sometimes classi…
3 years, 7 months ago
How Billionaires Plan To Escape The World They've Destroyed
Episode 192
Douglas Rushkoff is a media and tech critic who has been called "one of the world's ten most influential intellectuals" by MIT. He has hosted PBS Fro…
3 years, 7 months ago