How Do We Actually Dismantle Mass Incarceration?
This episode originally aired on August 20, 2024. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!It's long been recognized that the U.S. criminal punishment system is aberrational, cruel, and br...
6 Sep 202446min
An Israeli Journalist Excoriates His Country's Destruction of Gaza
This episode originally aired on August 15, 2024. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!Gideon levy is one of Israel's leading dissident journalists. His new book The Killing of Gaza: R...
4 Sep 202445min
What Keir Starmer Means for Britain (w/ Oliver Eagleton)
This episode originally aired August 7, 2024. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!Keir Starmer took the place of Jeremy Corbyn as the leader of the UK Labour Party, and recently becam...
30 Aug 202439min
How Dehumanization Happens (w/ David Livingstone Smith)
This episode originally aired on August 2, 2024. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!David Livingstone Smith is one of the leading scholars of dehumanization in the world, the author ...
28 Aug 202451min
Do Anarchism and Islam Go Together? (w/ Mohamed Abdou)
Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!In popular American stereotypes, Islam is a religion of submission, with right-wing politicians demagoguing about the supposed authoritarianism and...
26 Aug 202430min
Why You Should Join a Club (w/ Rebecca and Pete Davis)
Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!Today on the Current Affairs podcast, we're joined by two filmmakers, one of whom will be well known to longtime podcast listeners. Pete Davis foun...
23 Aug 202447min
Who Killed New York City? (w/ Jeremiah Moss)
Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!Jeremiah Moss (pseudonym of Griffin Hansbury) is the author of two books, Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul and Feral City: On Fin...
21 Aug 202443min
Why Did We Invade Iraq? (w/ Dennis Fritz)
Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!Dennis Fritz is the author of the new book Deadly Betrayal: The Truth About Why the United States Invaded Iraq(OR Books), which dives into the hist...
19 Aug 202442min
