Current Affairs

Current Affairs

A podcast of politics and culture, from the editors of Current Affairs magazine.

  1. há 1 dia

    A Trillion Dollars Isn’t Worth It If You Have to Be Elon Musk

    🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Elon Musk is a miserable deadbeat whom no amount of money can make loved, cool, or happy. 🌹 Full article by Nathan J. Robinson & Alex Skopic: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/a-trillion-dollars-isnt-worth-it-if-you-have-to-be-elon-musk 🦩Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership 🦩 Merch: https://shop.currentaffairs.org/

    45 min

  2. há 2 dias

    The Left Is Rising

    🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership  Electoral victories by socialists around the country show that the Democratic establishment is weak and can be overthrown.  🌹 Read the article: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-left-is-rising  🦩Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership  🦩 Merch: https://shop.currentaffairs.org/

    11 min

  3. há 3 dias

    The Hidden Surveillance Network Spreading Across America

    🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Jessica Burbank is an investigative journalist, content creator, and host of The Jessica Burbank Show. Her reporting for Drop Site News and The Counterprogramming Club has exposed the rapid spread of Flock Safety, a multi-billion-dollar surveillance company whose license plate readers and camera networks are being adopted by police departments and municipalities across the country. Burbank joined Current Affairs associate editor Emily Topping to discuss how Flock’s technology works, why communities often learn about it only after contracts are approved, how surveillance data can be abused by law enforcement, and what ordinary people should know before their towns embrace a mass surveillance system. 📸 Jessica's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@JessicaBurbankShow 📸 Jessica's Substack: https://substack.com/@kaburbank 0:00-9:07 What Is Flock Safety? 9:07-16:19 Why Should We Be Concerned? 16:19-20:26 Efforts to Prevent Surveillance Abuse 20:26-25:00 The Gymnastics Studio Case 25:00-26:41 ICE and Data Sharing 26:41-28:50 Why Local Police Departments Embrace This Tech 28:50-34:24 What About Communities That Want This Tech? 34:24-37:01 The Ideological Fault Lines 37:01-44:03 Lawsuits Against Flock 44:03-50:03 Are You Being Watched? 50:03-59:21 The Broader Implications of Surveillance Cameras 59:21-1:02:08 What to Consider Before Implementing This Tech 🦩Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership 🦩 Merch: https://shop.currentaffairs.org/

    1h 2min

  4. 17 de jun.

    Judith Butler Explains the Gender Panic

    🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Judith Butler is one of the world's leading scholars and philosophers on issues of gender, sexuality, and the cultural phenomena that surround them. They are the author of the landmark 1990 book Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, and more recently the 2024 follow-up work Who's Afraid of Gender? Butler joined Current Affairs editor-in-chief Nathan J. Robinson to discuss the way people around the world -- mostly conservatives, but some who consider themselves leftists, too -- have become fearful and angry about what they call "gender ideology," why they're mistaken, and what might be done about it. 🏳️‍⚧️ Who's Afraid of Gender?: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374608224/whosafraidofgender/ 0:00-4:34 How Gender Became a Right-Wing Panic 4:34-7:59 What “Gender Ideology” Really Means 7:59-13:27 Responding to Kathleen Stock 13:27-16:15 What Performativity Actually Means 16:15-23:28 Matt Walsh and the Demand for Simple Answers 23:28-26:25 Anti-Trans Politics and the Turn Toward Fascism 26:25-31:39 Feminism, TERFs, and Trans Rights 31:39-34:45 How Butler’s Views Have Evolved 34:45-40:53 Anti-Capitalism and Gender as a Distraction 🦩 Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership 🦩 Merch: https://shop.currentaffairs.org/

    41 min

  5. 15 de jun.

    The Anti-Zionist Jewish Movement Israel Doesn’t Want You to Know About (w/ Molly Crabapple)

    🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Molly Crabapple is an artist, journalist, and author of the new book Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund. She joins Current Affairs editor-in-chief Nathan J. Robinson to discuss the history of the Bund, its fierce anti-Zionism, its vision of Jewish self-determination without an ethnostate, and what this forgotten socialist movement can teach us about solidarity, self-defense, and fighting fascism today. ✊ Here Where We Live Is Our Country: https://www.mollycrabapple.com/here-where-we-live-is-our-country ✊ Drawing Blood: https://www.mollycrabapple.com/drawing-blood ✊ Brothers of the Gun: https://www.mollycrabapple.com/brothers-of-the-gun 0:00-5:52 Why the Bund Matters Now 5:52-9:43 Jewish Self-Determination Without an Ethnostate 9:43-14:51 Why the Bund Rejected Zionism 14:51-20:45 Labor Organizing, Mutual Aid, and Revolution 20:45-23:11 Jewish Self-Defense Against Pogroms 23:11-26:06 The Bund’s Failure to Take Power 26:06-32:16 Were the Zionists Proven Right? 32:16-35:12 Why History Was Not Inevitable 35:12-38:05 Has Israel Made Jews Less Safe? 38:05-43:36 Why the Bund Resonates Today 🦩Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership 🦩 Merch: https://shop.currentaffairs.org/

    43 min

  6. 9 de jun.

    Money Is a Measure of Nothing But Itself

    🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership J. W. Mason and Arjun Jayadev are economists and authors of the new book Against Money. They join Current Affairs editor-in-chief Nathan J. Robinson to discuss why money is so widely misunderstood, how it shapes our lives in ways we often fail to see, and how rethinking money can change the way we understand debt, austerity, inequality, foreign investment, housing, and the limits of mainstream economics. 💵 Against Money: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo265118979.html 0:00-6:20 The problem with imagining a world without money 6:20-13:38 Why money is not a neutral measure of value 13:38-20:15 How rethinking money changes our politics 20:15-30:43 What capital really is 30:43-38:14 What mainstream economics gets wrong 🦩Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership 🦩 Merch: https://shop.currentaffairs.org/

    38 min

  7. 2 de jun.

    The Fight to Unionize Amazon Isn’t Over (w/ Chris Smalls)

    🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Chris Smalls is the co-founder and former president of the Amazon Labor Union and author of the new book When the Revolution Comes. He joins Current Affairs associate editor Alex Skopic in Havana, Cuba, during the Nuestra América aid mission to discuss the U.S. blockade, labor organizing, his fight against Amazon, and why struggles from Cuba to Gaza to Staten Island are connected. Recorded March, 2026  ✊ Buy When the Revolution Comes: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/724036/when-the-revolution-comes-by-chris-smalls/ 0:00-5:21 Why Chris Smalls Came to Cuba 5:21-8:18 Hip-Hop, “Union Drip,” and Labor Organizing 8:18-11:09 Joe Biden’s Empty Pro-Union Promises 11:09-17:32 What Workers Should Know About Unionizing 17:32-24:02 The State of the Amazon Labor Union 24:02-26:36 Lessons From the Amazon Fight 26:36-28:15 Gaza, the Freedom Flotilla, and Israeli Apartheid 28:15-28:50 Medea Benjamin Cameo 28:50-31:56 What Comes Next for Chris Smalls 🦩Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership 🦩 Merch: https://shop.currentaffairs.org/

    32 min

  8. 31 de mai.

    Norman Finkelstein on the Insane Racism of Israeli Society and the Plan to Erase Gaza

    🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Norman Finkelstein is one of the leading scholars of the Israel-Palestine conflict and author of the new book Gaza’s Gravediggers: An Inquiry into Corruption in High Places. He joins Current Affairs editor-in-chief Nathan J. Robinson to discuss Israel’s plan to make Gaza unlivable, the racism of Israeli society, Tony Blair and Trump’s colonial “Board of Peace,” why he refuses to condemn Hamas, and why he argues that governments, human rights organizations, and international legal authorities have helped enable the Gaza genocide. 🇵🇸 Gaza's Gravediggers: https://orbooks.com/catalog/gazas-gravediggers/ 0:00-9:20 Netanyahu’s plan for Gaza 9:20-20:12 Israel’s objectives in Gaza 20:12-41:41 The racism of Israeli society 41:41-45:55 Why oppressors see themselves as victims 45:55-50:18 The Cherokee removal and Palestine 50:18-1:04:21 Why this has always been Israel’s plan 1:04:21-1:25:08 Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, and the right 1:25:08-1:32:34 Trump and Tony Blair’s “Board of Peace” 1:32:34-1:47:18 Who are Gaza’s gravediggers? 1:47:18-1:55:18 Refusing to judge anti-imperial atrocities in isolation 🦩Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership 🦩 Merch: https://shop.currentaffairs.org/

    1h 55min
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A podcast of politics and culture, from the editors of Current Affairs magazine.

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  • Criado por
    Current Affairs
  • Anos de atividade
    2018 - 2026
  • Episódios
    600
  • Classificação
    Explícito
  • Site do podcast
    Current Affairs

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