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
Understanding Biden's Foreign Policy (w/ Richard Beck)
Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!Richard Beck is a senior writer for N+1 magazine and the author of the forthcoming book Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life. His recent ar...
16 Aug 202437min
How to Read Nietzsche (And How The Left Should Feel About Him)
Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!Friedrich Nietzsche was one of the most influential philosophers of all time. Interestingly, thinkers on both the right and left have found inspira...
14 Aug 202444min
How Fox News Turns People Terrified and Paranoid (w/ Kat Abughazaleh)
Get new episodes at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!Kat Abughazaleh has watched a lot of Fox News. As an analyst for Media Matters, her job was to monitor the Fox primetime shows, producing videos document...
9 Aug 202442min
Jeffrey Sachs on What's Wrong With U.S. Foreign Policy
Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!Jeffrey Sachs is an economist at Columbia University and the author of the book A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism, which argues ...
7 Aug 202436min
