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Back to SearchPREVIEW: Keeping Up With The Cardassians
Lyta and Brianna discuss Star Trek—its utopias, its assumptions, it fun parts, and its hot people. This is a preview of an episode available in full to our $5 Patreon subscribers. To listen to the wh…
Published on 5 years, 1 month ago
PREVIEW: Infrastructure Nerd Hour II (Flying Windmills)
Did you know we can build wind turbines that don't stand on the ground? That, in fact, we can catapult wind turbines into high altitude and collect energy from them as they fly? Current Affairs resid…
Published on 5 years, 1 month ago
PREVIEW: What is Education For?
Nathan, Pete and Sparky discuss the book Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice, and education more broadly. Should there be a curriculum? Should twelve-year-olds…
Published on 5 years, 1 month ago
PREVIEW: Talia Lavin on white supremacy and antifascism
Pete speaks to journalist Talia Lavin about her new book Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy. This is a preview of an episode available in full to our $5 Patreon subscr…
Published on 5 years, 1 month ago
#62: The Biden Symphony
Episode 62
The team responds and reflects to the Biden win, ruminate on conservative octogenarians, and look forward to a vaccinated future. The panel this week is made up of associate editor Vanessa A. Bee, fi…
Published on 5 years, 1 month ago
Mass Appeal: A Discussion of Catholicism
As the US prepares for its second ever Catholic president, Rennix is joined by Current Affairs contributor Daniel Walden for an in-depth discussion on Catholicism: its liberatory side, its troubling …
Published on 5 years, 1 month ago
PREVIEW: William F. Buckley
Nathan and Oren discuss William B. Fu—sorry, William F. Buckley, the "most important conservative intellectual of the postwar era", and possessor of the second-most ridiculous mid-Atlantic accent in …
Published on 5 years, 1 month ago
PREVIEW: Infrastructure Nerd Hour: PG&E and California Wildfires
Infrastructure enthusiast Sparky Abraham is joined by Dr. Magnus Jamieson, an expert in electrical power systems, to discuss the fire which destroyed the town of Paradise, California in November 2018…
Published on 5 years, 1 month ago
#61: Vote No On Cancer Alley
Episode 61
The team discusses the past, the present and the future. Along the way, they get distracted by their favorite election conspiracy theories and the mysteries of New Orleans politics. The panel this w…
Published on 5 years, 1 month ago
Michael Moore on 2020
Nathan speaks to Michael Moore about his thoughts on the 2020 election. This episode also has a transcript: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/11/17106
Published on 5 years, 1 month ago