If Not Luigi Mangione, Then What? The Need For a Solidaristic Health Justice Movement

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🗓️ 12 February 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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0:00.0	Welcome to Current Affairs. My name is David Rhodes, and I'm the editor and chief of Current Affairs Magazine.
0:22.6	And today I am joined by Intermittent Current Affairs co-hosts Malika Jubali. Hello, Malika again.
0:29.6	Hi, Nathan. This is on the intermittent co-host. I can't even get the unmute button right. So I'm so excited to be joining you again. Oh yeah. No, we're doing this more often
0:40.3	because it's so much fun because we have so much fun together. And we have two very special
0:45.1	guests with us today who if you are regular listeners of the current affairs podcast, readers of
0:52.3	current affairs magazine, you will have encountered before,
0:54.7	because both of them have separately joined us before for fascinating conversations that you
0:59.0	should listen to. They are Astra Taylor and Leah Hunt Hendricks together. They are the authors of
1:05.8	the book, Solidarity, the Past, Present, and future of a world-changing idea.
1:12.3	Hello, Astra.
1:13.2	Hey, thanks for having us.
1:14.8	I'm excited to be here.
1:15.5	And hello, Leah.
1:16.6	Hi, thanks.
1:17.5	It's great to be here.
1:18.6	Good to be with you.
1:19.6	Just to get started here, I just wrote an article yesterday where I cited the previous
1:24.1	interview that I did with Leah because it seemed relevant to something that's been in the news,
1:29.2	which is the United Health shooting.
1:31.2	The shooter, who shot the CEO of United Healthcare, it came out, the list of books that he had been reading and the kind of ideas that he had been imbibing came out.
1:41.8	And some people were surprised that he was not conventionally left-wing.
1:45.8	He hadn't been reading a bunch of socialists and communists.
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