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
Why Thomas Sowell is a Terrible Economist (w/ Cahal Moran)
Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!Thomas Sowell may be the best-selling economics writer of our time. For decades, the Hoover Institution pundit has published books and columns intr...
10 Jul 202454min
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
