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
- 598
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
The Democratic Party Must Wake Up (w/ Sam Seder & Emma Vigeland)
🦩 This episode originally aired on February 26, 2025. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!
Sam Seder and Emma Vigeland of The Majority Report have spent years tracking the rise of the…
Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza (W/Peter Beinart)
🦩 This episode originally aired on March 18, 2025. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!
Peter Beinart is one of the most important Jewish intellectuals writing about Israel today. A p…
Trump, Nihilism, and the Crisis of Virtue (w/ Dr. Cornel West)
🦩 This episode originally aired on March 5, 2025. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!
Dr. Cornel West is one of the most electric and morally serious voices in American public life. …
How to Fight Fascism and Have Fun Doing It (w/ Francesca Fiorentini)
🦩 This episode originally aired on March 14, 2025. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!
Francesca Fiorentini is a comedian, journalist, and host of The Bitchuation Room. She joins Nat…
Dr. Omar Suleiman Interview | Islamophobia, Empire, and Resistance
How Do Workers Win? (w/ Eric Blanc)
This episode originally aired on February 10, 2025. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!
Eric Blanc is the author of We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing …
How Do We Fight Climate Denial? (w/ Dr. Genevieve Guenther)
This episode originally aired on February 6, 2025. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!
Dr. Genevieve Guenther, the founding director of End Climate Silence, thinks a lot about one of…
The Grotesque World of the Super-Rich (w/ Rob Larson)
This episode originally aired on February 3, 2025. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!
Rob Larson is Current Affairs' In-House Economist. He is also the author of Mastering the Unive…
Debunking Pseudo-Archaeology (and Why Atlantis Isn't Real) w/ Flint Dibble
This episode originally aired on February 1, 2025. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!
Today we are joined by Flint Dibble, who last year attempted the ambitious task of explaining s…
Medicare For All Is Still The Solution!
This episode originally aired on January 15, 2025. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/currentaffairs!
We are joined today by Dr. Adam Gaffney, the former head of Physicians For a National Health Pr…
If Not Luigi Mangione, Then What? The Need For a Solidaristic Health Justice Movement
This episode originally aired on January 7, 2025. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!
Today, Nathan is joined by Malaika Jabali as co-host along with Astra Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendr…
How "Don't Look Up" Explains Our Times (w/ Adam McKay)
This episode originally aired on December 30, 2024. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!
Adam McKay is a writer and film director who has made some of the most successful comedy films…
What Would it Mean to Be "Woke"? (w/ Musa al-Gharbi)
This episode originally aired on December 12, 2024. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!
Musa al-Gharbi is a sociologist with a unique, albeit controversial, take on the idea of "woke…
Why Democrats Fear Populism (And Keep Losing) (w/ Thomas Frank)
This episode originally aired on December 10, 2024. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!
Thomas Frank, historian, journalist, and author of What’s the Matter with Kansas? and Listen, …
Zohran Mamdani on How To Save NYC from Eric Adams
This episode originally aired on December 4, 2024. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!
Zohran Mamdani represents the 36th District in the New York State Assembly. A member of the Dem…
How to Promote Animal Welfare In Ways That Actually Get People On Board (w/ Brian Kateman)
This episode originally aired on November 26, 2024. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!
Brian Kateman is the head of the Reduceitarian Foundation and the author of the book Meat Me H…
What Harms Will AI Cause and What Can We Do About Them? (w/ Garrison Lovely)
This episode originally aired on November 18, 2024. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!Â
Garrison Lovely wrote the cover story for Jacobin magazine's special issue on AI, which expla…
How the "Child Welfare" System Destroys Black Families (w/ Dorothy Roberts)
This episode originally aired on November 15, 2024. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs !
Is our “child welfare” system successfully helping protect kids from neglect and abuse? Or is…
Dr. Feroze Sidhwa on What He Saw in Gaza
This episode originally aired on November 4, 2024. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!
Dr. Feroze Sidhwa is a trauma surgeon who has served in conflict zones around the world. He aut…
Are We Heading into the Era of "Disaster Nationalism"? (w/ Richard Seymour)
This episode originally aired on October 29, 2024. Get new podcasts early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairsRight!
Richard Seymour is one of the most learned and provocative leftist writers in the world. H…