How Did the Idea of Being "Self-Made" Come About? (w/ Tara Isabella Burton)
Tara Isabella Burton is a novelist and the author of the new nonfiction book Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians, a history of the rise of the idea of a curated self. T...
23 Helmi 202436min
Our Plan to Make It Actually Enjoyable to Read The News
Current Affairs has recently launched a new project: the Current Affairs News Briefing, a twice-weekly digest of important (and often neglected) news stories. We're really tired of having to sift thro...
21 Helmi 202433min
The Role of Drugs in American Life (w/ Benjamin Fong)
Benjamin Y. Fong is the associate director of the Center for Work & Democracy at Arizona State University and the author of the new book Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Cent...
19 Helmi 202437min
The History of Arab-Jews Can Change Our Understanding of The World (w/ Avi Shlaim)
Avi Shlaim is a distinguished historian and Emeritus Professor of International Relations at Oxford University. He is one of the Israeli "New Historians" whose pathbreaking work debunked some of Israe...
16 Helmi 202446min
A HEATED Encounter with Chris Rufo: Critical Race Theory, The Left, and American History
Originally aired 7/23/2023. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs !Today we have another in our Contentious Arguments series, as Nathan clashes with Christopher Rufo, the architect of t...
14 Helmi 202452min
The Dark Side of Fashion (w/ Alyssa Hardy)
Alyssa Hardy is a fashion journalist whose work has turned in recent years to exposing the underbelly of the industry, from the labor conditions of those who make the clothes to the colossal amounts o...
12 Helmi 202437min
How To Make Schools That Children Actually Enjoy Going To (w/ Lauren Fadiman)
School sucks. But why? And must it? For our print magazine, Lauren Fadiman writes about how radical leftists have historically tried to rethink schooling entirely, to create alternative schools that t...
9 Helmi 202444min
How Rupert Murdoch Killed The Only Good Social Media Platform (w/ Michael Tedder)
Perhaps only those between the ages of about 30 and 35 will remember the golden years of MySpace, which dominated social media before Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok. MySpace was a mess, but it's looked...
7 Helmi 202436min
