Andrew Ancheta

Nov 22, 2024 | currentaffairs.org | Wayne Hsiung |Andrew Ancheta |Alex Skopic |Nathan J. Robinson

People sympathize with animals, and yet we treat them horrifically. But a broad social movement can—and will—bring about a transformation. P’nut the Squirrel was hardly a household name before election day, though he had an Instagram following of sorts. But since he was killed by New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation on November 1—the victim of a raid on a supposedly unlicensed wildlife rehabber—P’nut has become a cause célèbre on the right.

May 17, 2024 | currentaffairs.org | Rob Larson |Nathan Robinson |Alex Skopic |Andrew Ancheta

A Magazine of Politics and Culture Sign In Journalist John Washington debunks common anti-immigrant myths and explains why free movement is a human right. John Washington is a journalist withArizona Luminaria, whose new bookThe Case for Open Bordersrebuts common anti-immigrant argument and shows that a world in which people can freely move from one territory to another will not create a “crisis” but will in fact benefit everyone.

Apr 18, 2024 | currentaffairs.org | Eileen G'Sell |Andrew Ancheta

Journalist Josie Cox is the author of the new book Women Money Power: The Rise and Fall of Economic Equality, a history of the 20th century women’s movement that documents the remarkable courage of the women who gave us suffrage, abortion rights, and greater equality across many dimensions of social and economic life. Today she joins to discuss how those gains were made, but also the failures (such as the story of the Equal Rights Amendment).

Apr 15, 2024 | currentaffairs.org | Andrew Ancheta |Alex Skopic |Nathan J. Robinson |K. A. Wilson

In his examination of Christopher Nolan’s Batman movies, the late anthropologist David Graeber argues that superhero comics are essentially fascist. This analysis is based on the power relations involved: comics, Graeber says, represent an anarchic universe, where the only real laws are the ones created “on the basis of force.” He might have added that they also play a role in socialization. Comics teach budding members of society what to expect of the world outside their doors.

Apr 14, 2024 | currentaffairs.org | Andrew Ancheta

In his examination of Christopher Nolan’s Batman movies, the late anthropologist David Graeber argues that superhero comics are essentially fascist. This analysis is based on the power relations involved: comics, Graeber says, represent an anarchic universe, where the only real laws are the ones created “on the basis of force.” He might have added that they also play a role in socialization. Comics teach budding members of society what to expect of the world outside their doors.