Current Affairs

577 Episodes

1. Why Suppressing "Fake News" Can't Fix Our Journalism Crisis

   Published: 3/3/2022
2. What Policing Looks Like From The Inside

   Published: 3/3/2022
3. War Zones & Prisons: The Places We Hide Suffering and The Ways We Rationalize It

   Published: 2/24/2022
4. How Do Hedge Fund Managers Justify Their Existence?

   Published: 2/24/2022
5. How To Think Sensibly About Apocalypse and Catastrophe

   Published: 2/16/2022
6. Why Is Climate Communication So Impossible and Frustrating?

   Published: 2/16/2022
7. Our Era of Scams & Hype: From the Fyre Festival to Trump's Career to NFTs

   Published: 2/10/2022
8. How Did Anyone Ever Believe WeWork's BS?

   Published: 2/3/2022
9. Is The International Criminal Court a Functional Institution?

   Published: 2/3/2022
10. Is Mocking the Deaths of Anti-Vaxxers "Necessary"? Or Cruel and Useless?

    Published: 2/3/2022
11. Why Judge Judy Is A Reactionary Enemy of the Poor Who Must Be Destroyed

    Published: 2/3/2022
12. How Segregation Was Built—And Why It's Still With Us

    Published: 2/3/2022
13. Leadership Lessons from Bill Clinton

    Published: 2/3/2022
14. How Can Socialists Get Things Done In State Government?

    Published: 2/3/2022
15. Why Are Student Loans Such a Catastrophe?

    Published: 2/2/2022
16. How Criminalization Destroys The Lives of Black Children

    Published: 2/2/2022
17. Is Julian Assange Being Unjustly Persecuted By The U.S. Government?

    Published: 2/2/2022
18. We Took Hillary Clinton's MasterClass So That You Don't Have To

    Published: 1/19/2022
19. Have Feminists Been Too Quick To Embrace Criminal Punishment?

    Published: 1/19/2022
20. What's Useful and Correct About Critical Race Theory? (w/ Randall Kennedy)

    Published: 1/19/2022