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Back to SearchJUBILEE DAY 4: Thomas Frank!
To celebrate the launch of our Kickstarter, we're bringing you seven new interviews with seven mystery guests in seven days! Today's guest is Thomas Frank, historian, co-founder of The Baffler, and a…
Published on 6 years, 3 months ago
JUBILEE DAY 3: Johann Hari!
To celebrate the launch of our Kickstarter, we're bringing you seven new interviews with seven mystery guests in seven days! Today's guest is Johann Hari, author of "Lost Connections: Uncovering the …
Published on 6 years, 3 months ago
JUBILEE DAY 2: Kade Crockford!
To celebrate the launch of our Kickstarter, we're bringing you seven new interviews with seven mystery guests in seven days! Today's guest is Kade Crockford, director of the Technology for Liberty Pr…
Published on 6 years, 3 months ago
JUBILEE DAY 1: Barbara Ehrenreich!
Hello all! This week, we're launching a fundraiser to help our small business grow into a fearsome (yet still beautiful) media empire. If you like what we do, please consider donating to our Kickstar…
Published on 6 years, 3 months ago
PREVIEW: In conversation with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
This is a preview of an episode available in full to our Patreon subscribers. To gain full access to this episode, as well as lots of other amazing bonus content, consider becoming one of our patrons…
Published on 6 years, 3 months ago
Episode #33: Bike Dancing
Episode 33
In this episode, the Current Affairs team discuss the usefulness of boycotts, encouraging news, and Pete faces down the rest of the cruel and ruthless panel in a round of Lefty Shark Tank. The panel …
Published on 6 years, 3 months ago
PREVIEW: WATER (feat. Varsha Venkatasubramanian on dams)
Current Affairs finance editor Sparky Abraham and associate editor Vanessa A. Bee sit down with Varsha Venkatasubramanian to discuss the politics of water —more specifically, dams. Find out how the s…
Published on 6 years, 4 months ago
In conversation: Mehdi Hasan on pseudo-intellectualism and Islamophobia
Current Affairs editor-in-chief Nathan J. Robinson and business manager Eli Massey sit down with journalist and broadcaster Mehdi Hasan to discuss the bad-faith actions of the "Intellectual Dark Web"…
Published on 6 years, 4 months ago
PREVIEW: A Very Nice and Polite Argument with Ezra Klein
Current Affairs editor-in-chief Nathan J. Robinson sits down with founder and editor-at-large of Vox, Ezra Klein. Together, they debate (in a very friendly manner) the successes and failures of the B…
Published on 6 years, 4 months ago
Landlord Wars, Ep. #32: The Tenant Strikes Back
Episode 32
Relevant reading:
An Example for All the Land: Emancipation and the Struggle over Equality in Washington, D.C., by Kate Masur: https://www.uncpress.org/book/9780807872666/an-example-for-all-the-land/…
Published on 6 years, 4 months ago