Current Affairs

Current Affairs

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

  1. hace 6 d

    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

  2. 15 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

  3. 9 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

  4. 2 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

  5. 31 may

    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/

    1 h 55 min

  6. 27 may

    Secret Cable Exposes U.S. Role in Imran Khan’s Ouster

    🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Waqas Ahmed is a Pakistani journalist whose work has appeared in The Intercept and Drop Site News. He joins Current Affairs to discuss his recent reporting with Murtaza Hussain and Ryan Grim on the U.S.-Pakistan relationship, the ouster and imprisonment of Imran Khan, and how Washington went from suspicion of Pakistan to embracing its military-backed government. 🇵🇰 Read Waqas Ahmed's article in Drop Site News: https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/pakistan-mediator-united-states-iran-trump-imran-khan 0:00-10:32 How Biden Soured on Pakistan 10:32-13:27 Ukraine and Imran Khan’s Break With Washington 13:27-19:35 How the U.S. Helped Push Imran Khan Out 19:35-23:37 Imran Khan’s Imprisonment Today 23:37-26:17 Pakistan’s Crackdown After Khan’s Ouster 26:17-31:32 How Washington Learned to Love Pakistan’s Military Regime 31:32-33:09 America Supports Dictatorship When It Serves U.S. Interests 33:09-38:22 Pakistan’s Role in the Iran Negotiations 🦩Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership 🦩 Merch: https://shop.currentaffairs.org/

    38 min

  7. 20 may

    The Heinous Evil of Cutting USAID

    🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Nicholas Enrich worked at USAID for more than 12 years, including in its Bureau for Global Health and Bureau for Management. He joins Current Affairs to discuss his new book, Into the Wood Chipper, a whistleblower account of how the Trump administration and Elon Musk’s DOGE allies shredded one of the most important humanitarian agencies in the U.S. government. 🏥 Buy Nicholas's Book: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Into-the-Wood-Chipper/Nicholas-Enrich/9781668226957 0:00-3:02 Inside USAID’s “Wood Chipper” 3:02-7:02 What USAID Actually Did 7:02-12:23 How the Right Turned USAID Into a Conspiracy Theory 12:23-14:37 The Trump Administration’s Lies About “Life-Saving” Aid 14:37-20:33 The Human Cost of Destroying USAID 20:33-34:20 How This Catastrophe Could Have Been Avoided 🦩Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership 🦩 Merch: https://shop.currentaffairs.org/

    34 min

  8. 16 may

    The Democratic Establishment Can Be Defeated

    🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership It’s not 2016 anymore. We can throw out the party’s sclerotic leadership. 🌹 Read the article: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-democratic-establishment-can-be-defeated 🦩SUBSCRIBE TO CURRENT AFFAIRS MAGAZINE: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership 🦩 PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/c/CurrentAffairs 🦩THE MYTH OF AMERICAN IDEALISM: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/738224/the-myth-of-american-idealism-by-noam-chomsky-and-nathan-j-robinson/

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

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  • Creado por
    Current Affairs
  • Años en activo
    2018 - 2026
  • Episodios
    600
  • Clasificación
    Explícito
  • Sitio web del podcast
    Current Affairs

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