Current Affairs
A podcast of politics and culture, from the editors of Current Affairs magazine.
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 42 minutes
- Episodes
- 600
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
JUBILEE DAY 7: Adolph Reed!
To celebrate the launch of our Kickstarter, we're bringing you seven new interviews with seven mystery guests in seven days! Today's guest is Adolph Reed Jr., professor of political science at Univer…
01:35:15 |
Tue 10 Sep 2019
JUBILEE DAY 6: Ana Kasparian!
To celebrate the launch of our Kickstarter, we're bringing you seven new interviews with seven mystery guests in seven days! Today's guest is Ana Kasparian, co-host and executive producer at The Youn…
00:55:52 |
Sun 08 Sep 2019
JUBILEE DAY 5: Philip K. Howard!
To celebrate the launch of our Kickstarter, we're bringing you seven new interviews with seven mystery guests in seven days! Something a little different today - our guest is Philip K. Howard, lawyer…
00:50:52 |
Sat 07 Sep 2019
JUBILEE DAY 4: Thomas Frank!
To celebrate the launch of our Kickstarter, we're bringing you seven new interviews with seven mystery guests in seven days! Today's guest is Thomas Frank, historian, co-founder of The Baffler, and a…
01:10:41 |
Sat 07 Sep 2019
JUBILEE DAY 3: Johann Hari!
To celebrate the launch of our Kickstarter, we're bringing you seven new interviews with seven mystery guests in seven days! Today's guest is Johann Hari, author of "Lost Connections: Uncovering the …
01:02:31 |
Thu 05 Sep 2019
JUBILEE DAY 2: Kade Crockford!
To celebrate the launch of our Kickstarter, we're bringing you seven new interviews with seven mystery guests in seven days! Today's guest is Kade Crockford, director of the Technology for Liberty Pr…
00:47:38 |
Wed 04 Sep 2019
JUBILEE DAY 1: Barbara Ehrenreich!
Hello all!
This week, we're launching a fundraiser to help our small business grow into a fearsome (yet still beautiful) media empire. If you like what we do, please consider donating to our Kicksta…
00:54:48 |
Tue 03 Sep 2019
PREVIEW: In conversation with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
This is a preview of an episode available in full to our Patreon subscribers. To gain full access to this episode, as well as lots of other amazing bonus content, consider becoming one of our patrons…
00:02:18 |
Thu 29 Aug 2019
Episode #33: Bike Dancing
In this episode, the Current Affairs team discuss the usefulness of boycotts, encouraging news, and Pete faces down the rest of the cruel and ruthless panel in a round of Lefty Shark Tank.
The panel…
01:05:23 |
Thu 29 Aug 2019
PREVIEW: WATER (feat. Varsha Venkatasubramanian on dams)
Current Affairs finance editor Sparky Abraham and associate editor Vanessa A. Bee sit down with Varsha Venkatasubramanian to discuss the politics of water —more specifically, dams. Find out how the s…
00:00:59 |
Thu 22 Aug 2019
In conversation: Mehdi Hasan on pseudo-intellectualism and Islamophobia
Current Affairs editor-in-chief Nathan J. Robinson and business manager Eli Massey sit down with journalist and broadcaster Mehdi Hasan to discuss the bad-faith actions of the "Intellectual Dark Web"…
00:03:23 |
Tue 20 Aug 2019
PREVIEW: A Very Nice and Polite Argument with Ezra Klein
Current Affairs editor-in-chief Nathan J. Robinson sits down with founder and editor-at-large of Vox, Ezra Klein. Together, they debate (in a very friendly manner) the successes and failures of the B…
00:01:12 |
Thu 15 Aug 2019
Landlord Wars, Ep. #32: The Tenant Strikes Back
Relevant reading:
An Example for All the Land: Emancipation and the Struggle over Equality in Washington, D.C., by Kate Masur: https://www.uncpress.org/book/9780807872666/an-example-for-all-the-land/
…01:01:01 |
Tue 13 Aug 2019
In conversation: Mckayla Wilkes on her 2020 run for Congress
Current Affairs host Pete Davis and managing editor Lyta Gold sit down with Mckayla Wilkes, a 28-year-old progressive who is challenging the House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer for his seat. Mckayla te…
00:34:54 |
Thu 08 Aug 2019
PREVIEW: Malcolm X
Nathan J. Robinson and Oren Nimni discuss the legacy of Malcolm X.
This episode is available in full to our Patreon subscribers. To gain full access to this episode, as well as lots of other fantast…
00:00:38 |
Tue 06 Aug 2019
UNLOCKED! Chuck Marohn on Strong Towns
Current Affairs host Pete Davis sits down with engineer, land planner and founder of the Strong Towns movement, Chuck Marohn, to discuss how to create thriving towns and cities.
This episode was edi…
00:48:19 |
Mon 05 Aug 2019
PREVIEW: Chris Arnade on photographing poverty
Current Affairs editor-in-chief Nathan J. Robinson sits down with photographer Chris Arnade to discuss his journey from Wall Street trader to travelling photographer, the things elites don't understa…
00:01:37 |
Thu 01 Aug 2019
Episode #31: The Pigeon Vortex
The Current Affairs panel sits down to discuss AOC's first year in office, proposes an innovative new way of dividing up the United States, and shares the transcendental experiences they've had with …
01:02:52 |
Tue 30 Jul 2019
PREVIEW: Micah Uetricht on Chicago
Current Affairs editors Nathan J. Robinson and Eli Massey sit down with writer and labor organizer Micah Uetricht to discuss the weird and tangled world of Chicago politics.
This is an excerpt from …
00:01:34 |
Thu 25 Jul 2019
PREVIEW: Chuck Marohn on Strong Towns
Current Affairs host Pete Davis sits down with engineer, land planner and founder of the Strong Towns movement, Chuck Marohn, to discuss how to create thriving towns and cities.
This is an excerpt f…
00:02:36 |
Tue 23 Jul 2019
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