The Current – Videos | Hachette Book Group

The Current, Episode 43:

Abhijit V. Banerjee & Esther Duflo

MIT Professors and winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics, Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo discuss the global implications of COVID-19, the decline in trust of governments, unsustainable debts, and their book, GOOD ECONOMICS FOR HARD TIMES.

VIEW EPISODE

The Current, Episode 42:

Gretchen Young & Kabir Sehgal

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, his connection to President Joe Biden and more.

VIEW EPISODE

The Current, Episode 41:

Rachel Vogelstein & Meighan Stone

This week on The Current, Rachel Vogelstein & Meighan Stone co-authors of AWAKENING: #MeToo and the Global Fight for Women’s Rights discuss the global success of the #MeToo movement, how the U.S. can support women around the world, the accuracy of The West Wing, what Bill Cosby’s overturned conviction means for the movement and more.

VIEW EPISODE

The Current, Episode 40:

Black Lives And The Police: One Year After George Floyd's Murder

This week on The Current: Authors Maya Rao, Keith Boykin and Radley Balko join Clive Priddle of PublicAffairs for a powerful discussion on how far the nation has come and what we’ve learned one year after the murder of George Floyd.

VIEW EPISODE

The Current, Episode 39:

Olivier Sibony

Olivier Sibony, Professor at HEC Paris, keynote speaker and co-author of NOISE talks about the detrimental effects of noise in the judicial system, the difference between noise and bias, how noise influenced Harry Potter and more.

VIEW EPISODE

All Episodes:

Episode 38: Susan Page

Episode 37: Philip Zelikow

Episode 36: Kehinde Andrews

Episode 35: Walter Mosley

Episode 34: Damon Centola

Episode 33: Michael Connelly

Episode 32: Steven Levingston

Episode 31: Amber Ruffin & Lacey Lamar

Episode 30: David Rothkopf, Keith Boykin, and Elizabeth Becker

Episode 29: Jeremy Arnold

Episode 28: Sarah Knight
Episode 27: Becky Cooper
Episode 26: Christen Brandt and Tammy Tibbetts
Episode 25: Peter Guralnick
Episode 24: Amy Bruni
Episode 23: David Priess
Episode 22: Arvind Gupta and Po Bronson
Episode 21: Shea Serrano
Episode 20: Devlin Barrett
Episode 19: Mychal Denzel Smith
Episode 18: Jewell Parker Rhodes and Kelly McWilliams
Episode 17: Harriet A. Washington
Episode 16: Jim Tankersley
Episode 15: Sarah Blaskey
Episode 14: Keion Henderson
Episode 13: Rick Steves
Episode 12: Mike Duncan
Episode 11: Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin
Episode 10: Ibram X. Kendi
Episode 9: Ezekiel J. Emanuel
Episode 8: Jennifer Palmieri
Episode 7: J.M. Hirsch and Michael Szczerban
Episode 6: Economics in a Post-COVID Age
Episode 5: The Social Role of Baseball
Episode 4: Stephanie Land and Sarah Jaffe on Essential Workers
Episode 3: Alina Das and Erika Lee
Episode 2: Anya Kamenetz and Jordan Shapiro
Episode 1: Laura Spinney on the Spanish Flu and COVID-19

By clicking ‘Sign Up,’ I acknowledge that I have read and agree to Hachette Book Group’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Use