Why This Computer Scientist Says All Cryptocurrency Should “Die in a Fire”
Cryptocurrencies have been hyped in Super Bowl ads and promoted by everyone from Bill Clinton to Glenn Greenwald to Spike Lee to Larry David to New York City mayor Eric Adams (who has pledged to turn ...
7 Juli 202253min
How to Get Past the Need for Endless Economic Growth (w/ "Doughnut Economics" author Kate Raworth)
Kate Raworth is an economist at Oxford University whose book Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist is a radical attempt to rethink foundational concepts in economics an...
31 Maj 202250min
The Terrifying and Stupid Ideas of "Neoreactionaries"
A recent article in Vanity Fair about the National Conservatism Conference profiles figures on the "New Right," including Peter Thiel, J.D. Vance, Blake Masters, and a deeply unpleasant individual cal...
31 Maj 202249min
Santa Claus for Alaska
Santa Claus is the mayor pro-tem of North Pole, Alaska. Yes, he's real, and he's a democratic socialist running for Congress in the special election against Sarah Palin. Current Affairs is honored to ...
31 Maj 202236min
How Do We Overcome Capitalism?
Tom Wetzel's forthcoming book Overcoming Capitalism: Strategy for the Working Class in the 21st Century (AK Press) is both a primer on the basic left critiques of capitalism and a handbook for creatin...
31 Maj 202244min
How Corporations Get Away With Criminality—And How to Stop Them
Jennifer Taub is a law professor whose book Big Dirty Money: Making White Collar Criminals Pay is about the double standard in American law that harshly punishes street crime while giving a free pass ...
31 Maj 202239min
The Life and Crimes of Winston Churchill
Tariq Ali is the author of two dozen books and his career as a public intellectual and activist stretches back to the 1960s. His new book Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes is an effort to demol...
10 Maj 202255min
A View of British Government From the Inside w/ former Labour MP Chris Mullin
Chris Mullin served from 1987 to 2010 as a Labour MP in the British parliament. During that time, he kept a daily diary of his observations, which has since been published in three acclaimed volumes. ...
10 Maj 202252min
