Current Affairs

Mar 18 2025 554 ep. 42 mins 7.6k

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Dr. Omar Suleiman Interview | Islamophobia, Empire, and Resistance

Mar 18 2025 44 mins

🦩 This episode originally aired on March 11th. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/Current Affairs! Dr. Omar Suleiman is a distinguished Islamic scholar, civil rights activist, and President of the Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research. He joins Nathan to discuss the deep roots of Islamophobia in American politics and the moral consequences of U.S. foreign policy—particular

How Do Workers Win? (w/ Eric Blanc)

Mar 11 2025 46 mins

This episode originally aired on February 10, 2025. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!Eric Blanc is the author of We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big, which covers the recent wave of unionization drives in America and summarizes the lessons we can learn from them. Eric shows that today's new unions have succeede

How Do We Fight Climate Denial? (w/ Dr. Genevieve Guenther)

Mar 08 2025 44 mins

This episode originally aired on February 6, 2025. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!Dr. Genevieve Guenther, the founding director of End Climate Silence, thinks a lot about one of the most important questions of our time: How we can combat climate change denial and actually bring about the transformations to our energy systems that will halt runaway climate cata

The Grotesque World of the Super-Rich (w/ Rob Larson)

Mar 01 2025 49 mins

This episode originally aired on February 3, 2025. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!Rob Larson is Current Affairs' In-House Economist. He is also the author of Mastering the Universe: The Obscene Wealth of the Ruling Class, What They Do with Their Money, and Why You Should Hate Them Even More. Rob covers the grotesque contrast between the lives of the rich and p

Debunking Pseudo-Archaeology (and Why Atlantis Isn't Real) w/ Flint Dibble

Feb 27 2025 52 mins

This episode originally aired on February 1, 2025. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!Today we are joined by Flint Dibble, who last year attempted the ambitious task of explaining science and critical thinking to Joe Rogan. Rogan has been a promoter of the pseudo-archaeology of a man named Graham Hancock, who argues that mainstream archaeologists are covering up t

Medicare For All Is Still The Solution!

Feb 22 2025 52 mins

This episode originally aired on January 15, 2025. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/currentaffairs!We are joined today by Dr. Adam Gaffney, the former head of Physicians For a National Health Program, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, and the author of the book To Heal Humankind: The Right to Health in History. Adam is one of the most articulate and effective c

If Not Luigi Mangione, Then What? The Need For a Solidaristic Health Justice Movement

Feb 12 2025 42 mins

This episode originally aired on January 7, 2025. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!Today, Nathan is joined by Malaika Jabali as co-host along with Astra Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix, authors of the book Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a Dangerous Idea. They join us in the wake of the killing of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson. The alleged killer's m

How "Don't Look Up" Explains Our Times (w/ Adam McKay)

Feb 08 2025 52 mins

This episode originally aired on December 30, 2024. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!Adam McKay is a writer and film director who has made some of the most successful comedy films of our century, including Anchorman (No. 6 on Time Out's top 100 comedy films of all time), Talladega Nights, Step Brothers, and The Other Guys. In the last decade, his more dramatic a

What Would it Mean to Be "Woke"? (w/ Musa al-Gharbi)

Feb 04 2025 53 mins

This episode originally aired on December 12, 2024. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!Musa al-Gharbi is a sociologist with a unique, albeit controversial, take on the idea of "wokeness," laid out in his new book We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite. Essentially al-Gharbi argues that among elites, a kind of social justice language ha

Why Democrats Fear Populism (And Keep Losing) (w/ Thomas Frank)

Jan 31 2025 57 mins

This episode originally aired on December 10, 2024. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!Thomas Frank, historian, journalist, and author of What’s the Matter with Kansas? and Listen, Liberal, joins us to dissect how Democrats abandoned populism, the rise of Trump’s faux-populism, and why the party refuses to embrace the working class. He also explores the path f