The Dysfunctions of Our "Democracy" and How To Fix Them (w/ Tom Geoghegan)
Thomas Geoghegan is a labor lawyer and writer whose latest book is The History of Democracy Has Yet To Be Written: How We Have to Learn to Govern All Over Again. MSNBC's Chris Hayes says of the book: ...
17 Apr 202330min
STAY WOKE: Vital Lessons From Black Musical History (w/ Samuel James)
“There’s an old adage ‘He who forgets history is condemned to repeat it.’ But what’s missing in that phrase is that there are the people who are in charge of keeping your history. And they can make yo...
27 Mar 20231h 7min
The Entirely Predictable Collapse of FTX and the Future of Crypto Cons (w/ Stephen Diehl)
One of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges, FTX, recently imploded spectacularly. Its CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried, had been called "the next Warren Buffett" and was a Democratic megadonor as well ...
29 Nov 202247min
Why Socialism and Trans Liberation Need Each Other (w/ Shon Faye)
Shon Faye is the author of the book The Transgender Issue: Trans Justice is Justice For All, available from Verso. The title of the book is meant slightly ironically, because part of Faye's argument i...
29 Nov 202251min
How a Marine Became a Critic of U.S. Imperialism (w/ Lyle Jeremy Rubin)
Lyle Jeremy Rubin is a veteran of the U.S. Marines who served in Afghanistan. He is the author of the new memoir Pain is Weakness Leaving the Body: A Marine’s Unbecoming, which documents his evolution...
29 Nov 202243min
Why The Market Is Not The Economy (w/ Nomi Prins)
Nomi Prins is one of the country's leading financial journalists, who has gone from working on Wall Street to exposing the inner workings of the economy and how it is rigged in favor of the powerful. ...
29 Nov 202236min
What Happens When McKinsey Shows Up?
McKinsey & Co. is the world's leading consulting company. But it also does a lot of work that's, well, pretty downright sinister, and it's very secretive about that work. But in the new book When McKi...
29 Nov 202236min
The Editors Take a MasterClass: Anna Wintour Edition
The editorial team of Current Affairs is fascinated by the online learning platform MasterClass, on which A-list celebrities offer “classes” that are sometimes very cool but frequently of dubious educ...
29 Nov 202247min
