Why Do We Have a "Viral Underclass"? (w/ Steven Thrasher)
Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!Steven Thrasher is a professor of journalism at Northwestern University and the author of The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and ...
9 Jul 202441min
Is Trump an "Aberration" Or the Logical Conclusion of the Right-Wing Project? (w/ David Austin Walsh)
Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs !Today we talk to David Austin Walsh, a postdoc at Yale and the author of Taking America Back: The Conservative Movement and the Far Right, a new b...
5 Jul 202441min
What Will New Weight-Loss Drugs Do to Us? (w/ Johann Hari)
Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs !Bestselling author Johann Hari, whose Lost Connectionsand Stolen Focus have previously been discussed on this program, returns today to discuss hi...
3 Jul 20241h 3min
Inside the MAGA Movement on the Ground (w/ Isaac Arnsdorf)
Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs !Who actually comprises the MAGA movement? Where do Trumpian politicians come from? How do they defeat "establishment" Republicans on the local and...
1 Jul 202426min
How The Dollar Became America's Most Powerful Weapon (w/ Saleha Mohsin)
Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs !When we think of American power, we often think of missiles, guns, and tanks. But operating in the background is an incredibly powerful weapon who...
28 Jun 202430min
In Praise of Excess (w/ Becca Rothfeld)
Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs !Becca Rothfeld is the nonfiction book critic for the Washington Post. Her new essay collection, All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Exce...
26 Jun 202438min
What Would a Left Foreign Policy Look Like? (w/ Van Jackson)
Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs !We know the left is, generally speaking, anti-war and anti-imperialist. But if a left-wing government ever took power in the U.S., what would its ...
24 Jun 202441min
How Cars Make Life Worse (w/ Daniel Knowles)
Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs !Daniel Knowles is a reporter for The Economist (yes, that one). His book Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse argues that cars are a problem, and...
21 Jun 202434min
