Current Affairs

581 Episodes

1. "How Are You Going To Pay For That?" and Other Dumb Political Questions - interview with Ryan Cooper, managing editor of The American Prospect

   Published: 26/03/2022
2. How To Be A Foreign Correspondent Without Swallowing Propaganda - interview with Patrick Cockburn, Middle East correspondent for The Independent, about his decades as a foreign correspondent

   Published: 16/03/2022
3. How Bill Gates Makes The World Worse Off

   Published: 16/03/2022
4. Astonishingly, There IS An Alternative! Interview with Yanis Varoufakis, former Finance Minister of Greece about his book "Another Now"

   Published: 11/03/2022
5. Why Suppressing "Fake News" Can't Fix Our Journalism Crisis

   Published: 3/03/2022
6. What Policing Looks Like From The Inside

   Published: 3/03/2022
7. War Zones & Prisons: The Places We Hide Suffering and The Ways We Rationalize It

   Published: 24/02/2022
8. How Do Hedge Fund Managers Justify Their Existence?

   Published: 24/02/2022
9. How To Think Sensibly About Apocalypse and Catastrophe

   Published: 16/02/2022
10. Why Is Climate Communication So Impossible and Frustrating?

    Published: 16/02/2022
11. Our Era of Scams & Hype: From the Fyre Festival to Trump's Career to NFTs

    Published: 10/02/2022
12. How Did Anyone Ever Believe WeWork's BS?

    Published: 3/02/2022
13. Is The International Criminal Court a Functional Institution?

    Published: 3/02/2022
14. Is Mocking the Deaths of Anti-Vaxxers "Necessary"? Or Cruel and Useless?

    Published: 3/02/2022
15. Why Judge Judy Is A Reactionary Enemy of the Poor Who Must Be Destroyed

    Published: 3/02/2022
16. How Segregation Was Built—And Why It's Still With Us

    Published: 3/02/2022
17. Leadership Lessons from Bill Clinton

    Published: 3/02/2022
18. How Can Socialists Get Things Done In State Government?

    Published: 3/02/2022
19. Why Are Student Loans Such a Catastrophe?

    Published: 2/02/2022
20. How Criminalization Destroys The Lives of Black Children

    Published: 2/02/2022