Nuclear Countdown, or, Why We Need to Start Worrying and Stop the Bomb
Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs! Nuclear weapons are always lurking there in the background, out in remote places where we don't have to think about them, but ready to be fired at...
29 Jul 202428min
Why No One Gets To Retire Anymore (w/ Teresa Ghilarducci)
Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!Teresa Ghilarducci is an economist at the New School for Social Research and the author of Work, Retire, Repeat, which shows how the possibilities ...
26 Jul 202437min
The Authoritarian Nightmare Donald Trump Is Planning (w/ Radley Balko)
Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!Radley Balko is one of America's leading journalists on policing and criminal punishment. His book The Rise of the Warrior Cop is a remarkable expo...
24 Jul 202436min
What Americans Don't Know About Iran (w/ John Ghazvinian)
Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!John Ghazvinian is the leading historian of U.S.-Iranian relations, the author of the indispensable study America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the ...
22 Jul 202442min
Is It 1968 All Over Again? (w/ Charles Kaiser)
Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs !With antiwar protests jeopardizing a Democratic president's reelection and an upcoming party convention in Chicago, 2024 has some eerie echoes of ...
19 Jul 202432min
The Toxic Legacy of Martin Peretz’s New Republic (w/ Jeet Heer)
Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs !Jeet Heer has written two major essays about the intellectual legacy of the New Republic magazine’s 70s-2000s heyday. The first, from 2015, excava...
17 Jul 202440min
Jonathan Kozol on the Scandal of America's Apartheid Education System
Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs !Jonathan Kozol is one of the leading critics of the U.S. education system, having written a series of widely acclaimed books across a 60-year care...
15 Jul 202435min
How Corporations Suck the Welfare State Dry (w/ Anne Kim)
Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!Anne Kim's book Poverty For Profit: How Corporations Get Rich Off America's Poor gives a partial answer to an enduring question: how come we spend ...
12 Jul 202433min
