Can The Minions Tell Us Anything?
"I will never again spend money on a Minion movie. ... I surprised myself. I went into this a huge fan of the Minions. And I thought 'Oh, they're so popular, we should talk about them on the left.' An...
23 Sep 202259min
Palestine Part II: Rights and Crimes in the Conflict Today
In our previous episode on Palestine with Rashid Khalidi, we discussed the early history of the conflict. Today we speak with Noura Erakat, human rights lawyer and professor at Rutgers University, who...
23 Sep 202242min
The Enduring Moral Insight and Satirical Power of Charlie Chaplin and The Twilight Zone
Today we dive into old cinema and television, looking at the films of Charlie Chaplin and the television show The Twilight Zone, both of which have recently been the subject of essays in Current Affai...
23 Sep 202256min
Sensible Thinking About U.S. Foreign Policy: Russia, China, and the Threat of World War
Branko Marcetic is a staff writer for Jacobin and the author of Yesterday's Man: The Case Against Joe Biden. He is also a leading heterodox commentator on U.S. foreign policy, and has written critical...
23 Sep 202245min
How Does the U.S. Exercise Power Around the World?
Vijay Prashad is a leading historian on the Global South and U.S. empire. His books include Washington Bullets, The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World and most recently The Withdraw...
23 Sep 202251min
Why Is There an Israel-Palestine Conflict in the First Place?
Today, we see children killed in Gaza by Israeli airstrikes, but anyone who gets their understanding of the Israel-Palestine conflict from news reports lacks the context necessary to make sense of the...
23 Sep 202256min
Afghanistan Through Western Eyes
Current Affairs editor at large Yasmin Nair and editor-in-chief Nathan J. Robinson have both written articles that deal with the country of Afghanistan. Yasmin's Evergreen Review piece, "Sharbat Gula ...
23 Sep 202251min
How Can We Deal With America's Gun Problem?
David Hemenway is a professor of public health at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is the author of Private Guns, Public Health which argues that there are many practical ways to significantly ...
25 Aug 202242min
