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#3: What the P.C. Police Won't Tell You
FromCurrent Affairs
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Length:
83 minutes
Released:
Jun 6, 2018
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Podcast episode
Description
The Current Affairs panel discusses why right-wing commentators feel so aggrieved, figures out what we mean by prison abolition, and make the complicated simple and the simple complicated.
The Panel:
Brianna Rennix, senior editor
Briahna Joy Gray, contributing editor
Oren Nimni, finance editor
Nathan J. Robinson, editor-in-chief
Pete Davis, host
Further reading on the 'Intellectual Dark Web':
Here is the original New York Times op-ed on the Intellectual Dark Web and here is Nathan's rebuttal.
Further reading on prison abolition:
A Voxplainer on prison abolition is here and a Jacobinsplainer on prison abolition is here. Nathan's grappling with prison abolition is here and a hopeful piece from Mother Jones on North Dakota's experiment with Scandinavian-style prisons is here.
Further reading on simple things that are actually complicated and complicated things that are actually simple:
David Graeber's book on debt is called: Debt: The First 5,000 years. The study Brie referenced about election strategy is here. The Greenwald piece on animal abuse that Brianna referenced is here. You can learn more about social housing as a solution to homelessness here and Pete wrote up a short piece on participatory care, which is here.
Support Current Affairs by becoming a patron on our Patreon page. For the written form of Current Affairs — and to subscribe to the beautiful print magazine — visit: Current Affairs.org
The Panel:
Brianna Rennix, senior editor
Briahna Joy Gray, contributing editor
Oren Nimni, finance editor
Nathan J. Robinson, editor-in-chief
Pete Davis, host
Further reading on the 'Intellectual Dark Web':
Here is the original New York Times op-ed on the Intellectual Dark Web and here is Nathan's rebuttal.
Further reading on prison abolition:
A Voxplainer on prison abolition is here and a Jacobinsplainer on prison abolition is here. Nathan's grappling with prison abolition is here and a hopeful piece from Mother Jones on North Dakota's experiment with Scandinavian-style prisons is here.
Further reading on simple things that are actually complicated and complicated things that are actually simple:
David Graeber's book on debt is called: Debt: The First 5,000 years. The study Brie referenced about election strategy is here. The Greenwald piece on animal abuse that Brianna referenced is here. You can learn more about social housing as a solution to homelessness here and Pete wrote up a short piece on participatory care, which is here.
Support Current Affairs by becoming a patron on our Patreon page. For the written form of Current Affairs — and to subscribe to the beautiful print magazine — visit: Current Affairs.org
Released:
Jun 6, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Bonus excerpt: "The West" and Other Myths with Daniel Walden: An excerpt from today's bonus episode, available in full to our Patreon patrons, in which amusements editor Lyta Gold and senior editor Brianna Rennix discuss myths with Classics scholar Daniel Walden, who recently wrote in the magazine about how the whole concept of “Western civilization" is a myth. Tune in to learn about why the myth of dragons may be a lefty one, why Jordan Peterson is confused about myths, what an anti-pope is, what myths can teach us about national origin stories, the purpose of trickster gods, and more. by Current Affairs