How to Read Nietzsche (And How The Left Should Feel About Him)
Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!Friedrich Nietzsche was one of the most influential philosophers of all time. Interestingly, thinkers on both the right and left have found inspira...
14 Aug 202444min
How Fox News Turns People Terrified and Paranoid (w/ Kat Abughazaleh)
Get new episodes at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!Kat Abughazaleh has watched a lot of Fox News. As an analyst for Media Matters, her job was to monitor the Fox primetime shows, producing videos document...
9 Aug 202442min
Jeffrey Sachs on What's Wrong With U.S. Foreign Policy
Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!Jeffrey Sachs is an economist at Columbia University and the author of the book A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism, which argues ...
7 Aug 202436min
What Biden's Changes to Asylum Mean For Immigrants
Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!Aaron Reichlin-Melnick is the Policy Director of the American Immigration Council and a leading expert on U.S. immigration law. He has testified be...
5 Aug 202448min
How "Pharmacy Benefit Managers" Are Extorting Us (w/ Max from UNFTR)
Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!Max (just Max) is the host of Unfucking the Republic (UNFTR), one of our favorite podcasts. UNFTR publishes intensively-researched deep dives into ...
2 Aug 202440min
Why Everyone Feels So Rotten About the Economy (w/ Kyla Scanlon)
Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!Kyla Scanlon is a leading online economics commentator and Bloomberg contributor, who regularly publishes TikTok explainers helping people understa...
31 Jul 202433min
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
