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Back to Search#23: You Can Call Me (Weird) Al
Episode 23
The Current Affairs panel discuss why they fight in the first place and then share what cultural products are their favorite lefty gateway drugs.
The Panel
Sparky Abraham, finance editor Lyta Gold, …Published on 6 years, 8 months ago
#22: Meet the Candidates! (Part 2)
Episode 22
The entire Current Affairs team comes together (again!) to finish briefing listeners on as many of the Democratic presidential candidates as they can in two hours.
The Panel:
Vanessa A. Bee, social …Published on 6 years, 8 months ago
UNLOCKED: Rhiana Gunn-Wright on insurgent left policymaking
UNLOCKED FROM THE PATREON BIRD FEED: Current Affairs editor Nathan J. Robinson talks with lefty policy whiz Rhiana Gunn-Wright, the policy lead for the Green New Deal with New Consensus and former Po…
Published on 6 years, 9 months ago
#21: Meet the Candidates! (Part 1)
Episode 21
The entire Current Affairs team comes together to brief listeners on as many of the Democratic presidential candidates as they can in two hours (spoiler alert: we only could get through half!)
The Pa…
Published on 6 years, 9 months ago
UNLOCKED: Maximillian Alvarez on amplifying the voices of working people
UNLOCKED FROM THE PATREON BIRD FEED: Current Affairs editor-in-chief Nathan J. Robinson sits down with Maximillian Alvarez, the host of Working People, a podcast in which ordinary people talk about t…
Published on 6 years, 9 months ago
UNLOCKED: Astra Taylor on her radically democratic life
UNLOCKED FROM THE BIRD FEED TO THE MAIN FEED: Current Affairs host Pete Davis sits down with filmmaker, writer and activist Astra Taylor. Check out Astra's three films — Zizek!, Examined Life, and Wh…
Published on 6 years, 9 months ago
#20: Voicemailbag IV
Episode 20
Every fifth episode, we like to open up the phone lines and take callers. Join us as we answer questions about: science, Beto, doctors, reverse racism and Douglas Adams!
Our panel:
Briahna Joy Gray,…Published on 6 years, 10 months ago
#19: The Chomsky Drop (ft. Noam Chomsky)
Episode 19
Yes, you read right. Current Affairs editor-in-chief Nathan J. Robinson sits down with the Patron Saint of Current Affairs, himself: Noam Chomsky!
Topics discussed include: consciousness, the limits …
Published on 6 years, 10 months ago
The Current Affairs Live Show
We present the audio recording of the first-ever Current Affairs: Live! Join the entire Current Affairs team — and guests Ian Madrigal, Saikat Chakrabarti and Lee Carter — as they delight, confuse, a…
Published on 6 years, 10 months ago
UNLOCKED: Welcome to The Neighborhood
This week, unlocked from the patreon bird feed, to the main feed: Current Affairs podcast host Pete Davis and editor-in-chief Nathan J. Robinson discuss the visionary auteur, child development crusad…
Published on 6 years, 10 months ago