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What a Hell of a Way to Die

Mar 28, 2019

This week, we speak with Current Affairs (@curaffairs) Editor-in-Chief Nathan J. Robinson (@NathanJRobinson) about pacifism: why it’s so maligned in popular discourse, and why a horror of war and violence is a necessary thing in our violence-saturated era.

Nathan recently published a piece on the topic of pacifism and...


Mar 21, 2019

In the aftermath of the tragic and horrendous massacres in New Zealand, we witnessed what you might describe as performative innocence on the part of people who traffic in Islamophobia.

However, some young heroes were not having it — yes, we’re talking about Egg Boy and Leen Dweik, two beacons of hope in an...


Mar 14, 2019

This week, Francis and Nate discuss two new military-related stories that will likely bring comically unintended consequences.

First, the Army intends to assign lieutenants to basic training units as platoon leaders. Which lieutenants? Well, all of them: pre-basic-course, post-basic-course, and post-platoon-leader, all...


Mar 7, 2019

This week, Francis speaks with Army veteran and sociology student @Falsemotive  about what it’s like on the Army post where he lives as a military dependent. The Army offers free housing to military families, but what you may not know is that on many posts that housing is privatized. The government paid contractors to...