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
The Moral Atrocity of Factory Farming and Why We Can't Look Away
Current Affairs is proud to be a publication that takes animal rights seriously. From our lighthearted looks at manatees, ants, and cats, to our more serious pieces on the Orwellian language of the fa...
19 Aug 202245min
Jeffrey Sachs On Why He Concluded COVID-19 Probably Came From a Lab (And Why Nobody Wants to Talk About It)
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs is the Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University and the President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. He has also served as the ch...
19 Aug 202231min
