The Current

Max Frost recounts the time he went on a date with a girl he had only spoken to beforehand in Spanish

10-29

04:32

Kat Rosenfield argues that it's those looking to cancel others, not defend free speech, who have skeletons in the closet.

10-28

04:00

Siraj Hashmi argues that Borat does a better job than most journalists in exposing the true personalities and motivations of his interview subjects.

10-27

05:01

Jason Nichols explains how the confidence and motivation expressed by Kanye West on his Joe Rogan interview has inspired him to enact change.

10-26

04:29

Alex Reynolds writes about the time she faced a horrific bout of food poisoning in Afghanistan.

10-26

05:15

Thad Russell explains how prominent liberal and libertarian intellectuals have joined the once Trump-inspired anti-lockdown movement, and what that may mean for policy moving forward.

10-23

05:07

Max Frost makes the shocking argument that despite its flaws, Hinge is good for one thing: commitment.

10-22

03:50

Jen Monroe asks an obvious but important question about stimulus payments: What are they for? That - not politics - should decide what kind of payments people receive.

10-21

04:29

Siraj Hashmi gives his take on the New York Post Biden bombshell and asks whether it really is a bombshell. Listen to find out his answer.

10-20

05:16

Max Frost argues that we shouldn't put Europe on a pedestal. Europeans make the same mistakes as Americans, which the pandemic is making clear.

10-20

05:22

Jason Nichols argues that Trump has continued the failed Black Capitalism approach of his Republican predecessors.

10-19

04:57

James Lindsay argues that constitutional protections won’t apply when society is viewed as a nexus of oppression and power structures

10-16

06:56

Jesse Singal takes a look at how political correctness - allegedly geared to protecting people of color - is actually just a tool for white people to display proper progressive etiquette.

10-15

06:19

Kat Rosenfield argues that people need to stop taking show cancellations personally. These are business, not personal, decisions.

10-15

05:10

Working in a Beverly Hills hotel exposes one server to Nick Cage, drug addicts, gang members, and a princess.