The Current Podcast
1) Episode 20: Abhijit V. Banerjee & Esther Duflo: COVID-19, global debt & zombie economics
MIT Professors and winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics, Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo discuss the implications of COVID-19 globally, the decline in trust of governments, unsustainable ...Show More
2) Episode 19: Final Reflections of Congressman John Lewis
This week on The Current, editor Gretchen Young and bestselling author Kabir Sehgal discuss their relationship to the late Congressman John Lewis, how his book CARRY ON came together, #BLM protests, h...Show More
3) Episode 18: Rachel Vogelstein & Meighan Stone
#MeToo has been searched in all 196 countries around the world. Is the movement a global phenomenon? Rachel Vogelstein and Meighan Stone, co-authors of AWAKENING: #MeToo and the Global Fight for Women...Show More
4) Episode 17: Olivier Sibony
Two judges in the same courthouse give markedly different sentences to people who have committed the same crime. Why? This week on The Current, Olivier Sibony, Professor at HEC Paris, keynote speaker ...Show More
5) Episode 16: Susan Page
What made Nancy Pelosi rip Donald Trump's State of the Union speech? Susan Page, USA Today Washington Bureau chief, vice presidential debate moderator and author of MADAM SPEAKER talks Nancy Pelosi re...Show More
6) Episode 15: Philip Zelikow
What did Woodrow Wilson fail to do to stop World War 1? Philip Zelikow, White Burkett Miller Professor of History, former executive director of the 9/11 commission and author of THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED...Show More
7) Episode 14: Kehinde Andrews
What repercussions did the Meghan Markle and Prince Harry tell-all have on the British royal family? Kehinde Andrews, Professor of Black Studies at Birmingham City University and author of THE NEW AGE...Show More
8) Episode 13: Walter Mosley
Is there racial inequality in book publishing? Walter Mosley, acclaimed crime fiction writer and author of BLOOD GROVE, talks being a teenager in 1969, the honesty of his characters, the event that le...Show More
9) Episode 12: Damon Centola
How did Trump mobilize Twitter when he was elected president in 2016? Damon Centola, sociologist and author of CHANGE, talks in-depth about Twitter, regulating social networks, crowds influencing indi...Show More
10) Episode 11: Michael Connelly
Best-selling author Michael Connelly talks to our host Clive Priddle of PublicAffairs on forensic science, inspirations for his character Mickey Haller, and his view on the future of Los Angeles.