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
- 599
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
How George Santos Scammed Everyone (w/ Mark Chiusano)
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Mark Chiusano of Newsday knows George Santos better than anyone else, having covered Santos’ political career from its start to its recent ignomi…
The Bill Gates Problem (w/ Tim Schwab)
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Tim Schwab is an investigative journalist who's been reporting on Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation since 2019. His work has appeared in The Na…
A Climate Scientist on What We're Facing and What We Need to Do
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Peter Kalmus is one of the country's most visible and engaged climate scientists. He is the author of Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate R…
On The Persistence of Racist Pseudo-Science (w/ Keira Havens)
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Keira Havens is a science writer whose blog series "Box of Rocks" aims to identify and expose racist pseudo-science. She joins us today to explai…
What Did the "Decade of Protest" Accomplish—And Why Did it Fail? (w/ Vincent Bevins)
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Vincent Bevins is a journalist who has written for the Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere, and is the author of the acclaimed The …
Current Affairs Presents: "American Radio"
Today we have a most unusual episode: a parody of American radio cliches, pieced together by Nathan. Using audio editing software, sound effects libraries, voice cloning technology, and "AI" music to…
Can The Concept of "Philanthropy" Be Saved? (w/ Amy Schiller)
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Philanthropy is a problem. Lots of contemporary philanthropy is either useless (Rich people funding new buildings for Harvard) or shouldn't have …
Why The Luddites Were Right (w/ Brian Merchant)
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Brian Merchant is the technology column…
Why Students Are Rising Up for Gaza
Today we have a documentary episode examining and analyzing the ongoing pro-Palestine uprisings at campuses around the country. We look at the horrifying facts on the ground in Gaza that have caused …
The Meaning of "Security" (w/ Astra Taylor)
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Astra Taylor is a filmmaker, writer, and activist whose latest book is The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart, based on her …
A Philosopher Explains Why It's Rational To Be Angry (w/ Myisha Cherry)
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Myisha Cherry is a philosopher at UC-Riverside whose book The Case for Rage: Why Anger Is Essential to Anti-Racist Struggle (Oxford University Pr…
How is Capitalism Like a Bad Relationship? (w/ Malaika Jabali)
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Malaika Jabali is Senior News and Politics Editor at Essence magazine. She is also the only previous Current Affairs contributor whose writing fo…
How to Spot Corporate Bullshit (w/ Nick Hanauer)
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Today we take a dive into the world of "corporate bullshit" with Nick Hanauer, who has become an expert on spotting and debunking it. Nick is a b…
Your Money or Your Life: A Physician on the Miseries of Medical Debt
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Dr. Luke Messac is an emergency physician and historian whose new book is Your Money or Your Life: Debt Collection in American Medicine (Oxford U…
How Four Billionaires Are Creating A Horrible Future For All of Us (w/ Jonathan Taplin)
Jonathan Taplin has had a fascinating career, from being a tour manager for Bob Dylan and the Band to a film producer for Martin Scorsese to running the Innovation Lab at the University of Southern C…
The Rise and Fall of Crypto Lunacy (w/ Zeke Faux)
Zeke Faux of Bloomberg News is the author of a fascinating and hilarious new book about the crypto world and the collapse of the Sam Bankman-Fried empire, Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and …
How The Occupation Shapes Everything (w/ Nathan Thrall)
Nathan Thrall, the former Director of the Arab-Israeli Project at the International Crisis Group, is the author of two books on Israel and Palestine: The Only Language They Understand: Forcing Compro…
The Current Israel-Palestine Crisis Was Entirely Avoidable (w/ Jerome Slater)
Political scientist Jerome Slater is the author of one of the best one-volume summaries of the background of the Israel-Palestine conflict, Mythologies Without End: The US, Israel, and the Arab-Israe…
Why Wars Happen (w/ Michael Mann)
Michael Mann is a sociologist who has spent his life trying to understand how power works. His latest book, On Wars, surveys the entire history of warfare between human societies to try to understand…
A McKinsey Whistleblower on Life Inside The Secretive Consulting Firm
Several years ago, Garrison Lovely wrote an insider account of McKinsey & Co. for Current Affairs. At the time he published using a pseudonym, but he's now gone public with a cover story for a recent…