How is Capitalism Like a Bad Relationship? (w/ Malaika Jabali)
Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs !Malaika Jabali is Senior News and Politics Editor at Essence magazine. She is also the only previous Current Affairs contributor whose writing for...
22 Apr 202437min
How to Spot Corporate Bullshit (w/ Nick Hanauer)
Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs !Today we take a dive into the world of "corporate bullshit" with Nick Hanauer, who has become an expert on spotting and debunking it. Nick is a bu...
19 Apr 202443min
Your Money or Your Life: A Physician on the Miseries of Medical Debt
Get new episodes early at patreon.com/currentaffairs !Dr. Luke Messac is an emergency physician and historian whose new book is Your Money or Your Life: Debt Collection in American Medicine (Oxford Un...
17 Apr 202436min
How Four Billionaires Are Creating A Horrible Future For All of Us (w/ Jonathan Taplin)
Jonathan Taplin has had a fascinating career, from being a tour manager for Bob Dylan and the Band to a film producer for Martin Scorsese to running the Innovation Lab at the University of Southern Ca...
15 Apr 202437min
The Rise and Fall of Crypto Lunacy (w/ Zeke Faux)
Zeke Faux of Bloomberg News is the author of a fascinating and hilarious new book about the crypto world and the collapse of the Sam Bankman-Fried empire, Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and S...
12 Apr 202451min
How The Occupation Shapes Everything (w/ Nathan Thrall)
Nathan Thrall, the former Director of the Arab-Israeli Project at the International Crisis Group, is the author of two books on Israel and Palestine: The Only Language They Understand: Forcing Comprom...
10 Apr 202446min
The Current Israel-Palestine Crisis Was Entirely Avoidable (w/ Jerome Slater)
Political scientist Jerome Slater is the author of one of the best one-volume summaries of the background of the Israel-Palestine conflict, Mythologies Without End: The US, Israel, and the Arab-Israel...
8 Apr 202440min
Why Wars Happen (w/ Michael Mann)
Michael Mann is a sociologist who has spent his life trying to understand how power works. His latest book, On Wars, surveys the entire history of warfare between human societies to try to understand ...
5 Apr 202445min
