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
Why Children Make Such Good Philosophers
In this episode, we discuss the strange creatures known as children. Scott Hershovitz is a professor of philosophy and law at the University of Michigan and the author of Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Ad...
19 Aug 202244min
The Life of Murray Bookchin / Revolution in Rojava
Janet Biehl is one of the leading libertarian socialist writers in the country. For several decades, she was the partner and collaborator of the late political theorist Murray Bookchin, who stood, in ...
19 Aug 202254min
How Much Is a Whale Worth? (w/ Adrienne Buller)
In our last episode, we took a break from the depressing facts of the ecological crisis to simply marvel at the immense variety of experiences and sensations in the animal kingdom. Today we return to ...
19 Aug 202246min
