Last year, Current Affairs began a podcast, which intends to capture the spirit and flavor of our print magazine in audio form. If you like what we do in writing, check it out. You’ll find episodes on everything from Greek mythology to Elon Musk, and incredible guests like Noam Chomsky, Astra Taylor, Ralph Nader, and Molly Crabapple. So far, we have released approximately 130 episodes. We release episodes on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and do a “main” episode every other week, featuring a panel discussion among our editors on three different topics. The other episodes are bonuses available to our Patreon supporters.

Below is a list of the episodes we’ve done so far. As you’ll see, there’s something for practically everyone.

1. Main Episode — Job Guarantees vs a Universal Basic Income, randomized college admissions, and our worst past beliefs
2. Main Episode —”Liberal bias,” “Are landlords necessary?” and historical heroes
3. Why “Freedom of Contract” Isn’t Really Freedom
4. Main Episode — Right-wing grievances, “Can prison abolition work?” and making simple things complicated
5. Should Bakers Have To Make Cakes? — Oren and Vanessa analyze the “Masterpiece Cakeshop” decision 
6. Main Episode — The “crisis” at the border, a theory of political comedy, and listener voicemails
7. Reality Television
8. William Butler Yeats
9. Is Education Necessary?
10. Main Episode — The left-liberal divide, a plan for a “universal government log-in,” and our “silver bullet” ideas
11. Review: The Supreme Court’s 2018 Term
12. Main Episode — Listener Voicemails #1 
13. Film Discussion: Sorry To Bother You
14. The Labor Politics of Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares
15. Main Episode — Getting people fired, the Abdul El-Sayed campaign, and our “most conservative” opinions 
16. The State of Michigan
17. Leftism and the Law
18. Main Episode — What the end of racism/sexism might look like, packing the Supreme Court, and historical “what ifs”
19. The West — with Daniel Walden
20. Main Episode — Matt Bruenig pitches social wealth funds and Lina Khan tells us about antitrust 
21. Theranos
22. Football
23. Main Episode — Listener Voicemails #2
24. Monopolies
25. Room 101 — Oren and Nathan share pet peeves
26. Main Episode — “Is the personal political?”, the genius of Wikipedia, and some hopeful trends
27. Central America
28. Brett Kavanaugh
29. Kavanaugh’s “Patriarchitis”: A Special Investigation
30. Modern Monetary Theory
31. Main Episode — Firing men into the sun, Malaika Jabali on “economic anxiety,” and utopian communities
32. Jesse Eisinger — The Pulitzer-winning journalist on how to fight corporate crime
33. Better Call Saul
34. Elon Musk
35. Main Episode — Halloween special: The murder of American democracy, “Is Halloween the best holiday?” and favorite unsolved mysteries 
36. “The Rule of Law”
37. The Morality of Wealth
38. Prison Reform and the Death Penalty — with Sam Weiss
39. Main Episode — The politics of tragedy, definitions of fascism, and hopeful things about electoral politics
40. 2018 Midterm Election Roundup
41. The Intellectual Dark Web
42. Jedidiah Purdy — on law and neoliberalism 
43. Main Episode — Listener Voicemails #3
44. Indian Law — with Kendri M. Cesar 
45. Fyodor Dostoevsky
46. Leah Litman — on gender justice and the law 
47. Main Episode — 2020 presidential hopes, “Is money speech?” and lessons from the right 
48. Room 101 — Lyta and Brianna share pet peeves
49. Greek Mythology
50. Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood
51. Writing “Takedowns”
52. Main Episode — The Green New Deal, loneliness in America, and political amnesia
53. Christmas Movies
54. Vaughn Stewart — A DSA elected official on how socialists can win
55. Glenn Greenwald — on the rights of animals 
56. 2018 Year-in-Review — with Katie Halper 
57. Corey Robin — on the conservative mindset, Donald Trump, and Clarence Thomas 
58. Music — Side A: Music we love 
59. Capitalism and “Freedom” — with Rob Larson 
60. Political Comedy — with Luke Savage 
61. The Working Class — with Max Alvarez
62. The Immigration System
63. Anarchism
64. Mandatory Arbitration — with Sejal Singh and Beth Feldstein 
65. Astra Taylor — on democracy 
66. Live Show — our first live podcast in Washington D.C. 
67. Noam Chomsky
68. Music — Side B: Music we don’t like 
69. Yasmin Nair — on trauma, comedy, and the nonprofit-industrial complex
70. Chomsky’s Work
71. Main Episode — Listener Voicemails #4
72. “Smart” Cities — with Ben Green 
73. Anti-Semitism — with Katie Halper 
74. Rhiana Gunn-Wright — on making successful left policies 
75. University Admissions — with David Kim 
76. Eli Valley — on art, anti-Semitism, and Israel-Palestine 
77. 2020 Presidential Candidates (Part 1)
78. Jamelle Bouie
79. Ian Madrigal — on theatrical protest 
80. Tiffany Cabán
81. 2020 Presidential Candidates (Part 2)
82. Virgil Texas
83. Jane McAlevey
84. The Mike Gravel Candidacy — with the Gravel Teens 
85. Main Episode — why we fight, and “gateway drugs to leftism” 
86. Abdul El-Sayed — on the politics of healthcare
87. The Books of C.S. Lewis
88. Liza Featherstone — on focus groups
89. Main Episode — the value of technocrats, Bernie being a millionaire, imaginary cabinet positions 
90. Marshall Steinbaum — on the myths of free-market economics 
91. Natalie Wynn — on her ContraPoints channel and the right’s dominance of YouTube 
92. Marbre Stahly-Butts — on Law for Black Lives
93. Main Episode — Listener Voicemails #5 
94. The Criminal Punishment System — with Alec Karakatsanis
95. Matt Bruenig — on the kind of welfare state we need 
96. Marie Ndaye — on the reality of public defense work 
97. Main Episode — “Adversity scores,” abortion as a litmus test, things that made us glad/mad
98. Centrally Planned Economies — Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski on what Walmart can tell us about socialism
99. Molly Crabapple
100. Ralph Nader
101. Karl Marx Part I — with Zach Wehrwein
102. Karl Marx Part II — with Zach Wehrwein 
103. Main Episode — animals and the left, the internet and “free speech,” new items for the history curriculum 
104. Bhaskar Sunkara
105. Pride Month Special — with Yasmin Nair, Conner Habib, and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore 
106. Meagan Day — on her her proposal for universal sabbaticals
107. Main Episode — Harvard, our utopian festival, knowing when we’re wrong 
108. Logic and Arguments — with Ben Burgis 
109. Student Debt — with Allie Conti, Matt Bruenig, and Marshall Steinbaum 
110. Main Episode — Listener Voicemails #6
111. Eileen Appelbaum — plus Lyta Gold on a “world without men” 
112. Chuck Marohn — on strong towns
113. Chicago — with Micah Uetricht 
114. Main Episode — AOC, watershed borders, experiences with animals
115. Chris Arnade
116. Malcolm X
117. Mckayla Wilkes — on her effort to unseat Steny Hoyer
118. Housing Special — with Amanda Korber, Rob Wohl, and Amanda Huron 
119. Ezra Klein
120. Mehdi Hasan
121. Water — with Varsha Venkat 
122. Main Episode — consumer boycotts, funding local journalism, and encouraging news
123. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
124. Barbara Ehrenreich
125. Kade Crockford — On the future of surveillance 
126. Johann Hari
127. Thomas Frank
128. Philip K. Howard — A former Trump adviser gets grilled
129. Ana Kasparian