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The NYC mayor is trying to build a city that functions like a city in a children's picture book, where people aren’t caught in a web of lies and scams.
🌹 Full article by Nathan J. Robinson: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/mamdanis-richard-scarry-socialism-can-make-city-life-simple-again
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Jon Greenaway is a writer, critic, and co-host of the podcast Horror Vanguard. He joins Current Affairs editor in chief Nathan J. Robinson, along with editors Emily Topping and Alex Skopic, to discuss his new article “Zombie Simpsons and the Cultural Undead,” which appears in the upcoming print issue of Current Affairs.
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🧟 Jon Greenaway's article on Obsession: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/obsession-and-the-horror-of-treating-people-as-products
🧟 Jon Greenaway's article on Backrooms: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/backrooms-shows-the-vast-meaningless-maze-of-capitalism
0:00 Monopoly Go and the Death of Culture
6:05 How Culture Becomes Intellectual Property
12:28 “Zombie Simpsons” and Capitalist Realism
24:14 Why the Left Needs a Critique of Culture
31:39 The Pointless Harry Potter Reboot
38:09 The Hollowness of Jimmy Fallon
44:48 Horror Movies You Should Watch
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Kyle Kulinski is the host of The Kyle Kulinski Show, co-host of Krystal Kyle & Friends, and a co-founder of Justice Democrats. He joins Current Affairs editor in chief Nathan J. Robinson to discuss his new article on Bill Maher, which will appear in the next print issue of Current Affairs!
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0:00–4:38 Why Bill Maher Used to Matter
4:38–10:49 How Bill Maher Moved Right
10:49–16:37 “Progressive Except for Palestine”
16:37–21:20 Abdul El-Sayed
21:20–26:04 Idiocracy
26:04–27:42 When “Skepticism” Becomes Anti-Science
27:42–31:04 Apocalypse
31:04–37:18 The U.S. the World’s Biggest Terrorist
37:18–40:55 “Centrism” Isn’t Actually Moderate
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Will McCaffery is a leftist content creator focused on anti-imperialism, anti-Zionism, and anti-capitalism, and the author of a new Current Affairs article on Israel’s upcoming election.
He joins Current Affairs editor in chief Nathan J. Robinson to discuss what Israel’s elections reveal about the limits of liberal democracy, the political consensus behind apartheid and occupation, and what those same dynamics can teach us about elections and empire in the United States.
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0:00–4:52 How Western Media Frames Israel’s Election
4:52–7:53 Can an Apartheid State Be a Democracy?
7:53–9:54 Why Have Arab Parties in an Ethnostate?
9:54–13:37 “Pragmatic” vs. “Evocative” Fascism
13:37–19:08 The Ethnic Supremacist Consensus in Israeli Politics
19:08–22:13 Why Israel’s Far Right Is More Honest About Zionism
22:13–29:28 Bringing the Critique Home to the American Empire
29:28–32:43 The Iran War and Whose Lives American Politics Values
32:43–37:54 The Victims of Empire Don’t Get a Vote
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