Our Era of Scams & Hype: From the Fyre Festival to Trump's Career to NFTs
We live in an age where economic success can depend a lot more on hype and branding than offering actual useful things that help people. Occasionally, we see extreme examples of fakers and frauds, lik...
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How Did Anyone Ever Believe WeWork's BS?
Maureen Farrell is a business reporter with the New York Times and co-author of the book The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion, which documents one of the most bizarre s...
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Is The International Criminal Court a Functional Institution?
The International Criminal Court in the Hague is the place where war criminals are supposed to be tried and punished. It embodies a vision of global justice in which war crimes are universally forbidd...
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Is Mocking the Deaths of Anti-Vaxxers "Necessary"? Or Cruel and Useless?
Michael Hiltzik is a Pulitzer Prize-winning business columnist for the Los Angeles Times. He has recently attracted a lot of (almost entirely negative) attention for a column and tweets arguing that m...
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Why Judge Judy Is A Reactionary Enemy of the Poor Who Must Be Destroyed
Judge Judy Sheindlin has long been one of the highest-paid TV stars, earning a staggering $47 million per year for her show, Judge Judy. She is universally known and loved nationwide for her acerbic, ...
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How Segregation Was Built—And Why It's Still With Us
Sheryll Cashin is the author of White Space, Black Hood: Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality. She has been called "one of the most important civil rights scholars of our time...
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Leadership Lessons from Bill Clinton
Editors of Current Affairs recently took Hillary Clinton's "MasterClass" and had a deeply unpleasant time. But Bill Clinton, too, has a MasterClass, and as public interest journalists committed to und...
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How Can Socialists Get Things Done In State Government?
Today, in our last episode of the year, we present a hopeful discussion about what leftists can accomplish in power. Sam Bell is a Rhode Island state senator and Democratic Socialists of America membe...
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