Podcast Episodes
Back to Search#24: The Department of Glass Castles
Episode 24
The Current Affairs panel asks “what’s the problem with technocrats?”, debates whether it’s bad that Bernie Sanders is now a millionaire, and propose…
6 years, 10 months ago
UNLOCKED: Jane McAlevey on organizing vs. mobilizing
UNLOCKED FROM THE BIRD FEED: Current Affairs host Pete Davis sits down with labor organizer and scholar Jane McAlevey to talk about organizing for po…
6 years, 10 months ago
UNLOCKED: Virgil Texas on the Chapo Trap House phenomenon
UNLOCKED FROM THE PATREON BIRD FEED: Current Affairs host Pete Davis talks with Virgil Texas about his hit podcast, Chapo Trap House: its origins, it…
6 years, 11 months ago
#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…
6 years, 11 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…
6 years, 11 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 t…
7 years 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 (spoi…
7 years 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 Peopl…
7 years 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 A…
7 years 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 racis…
7 years ago