This Is Hell!: Recent Episodes
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Ashley Dawson returns to discuss his new piece at the New York Review of Books, "The Costs of the Cloud: How much power does AI consume?" "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.Check out Ashley's article here: https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/09/27/the-costs-of-the-cloud/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishellPlease rate and review This Is Hell! wherever you get your podcasts. It really helps the show ascend the algorithm to reach new listeners.
Bronwen Everill joins This Is Hell! to talk about her new book "Africonomics: A History of Western Ignorance”, published by The New Press. https://thenewpress.org/authors/bronwen-everill/?v=eb65bcceaa5fWe will have new installments of Rotten History and Hangover Cure. We will also be sharing your answers to this week's Question from Hell! from Patreon.Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell
Political Scientist Laleh Khalili joins us to discuss her new book, "Extractive Capitalism: How Commodities and Cronyism Drive the Global Economy" out now from Verso. "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.Check out Laleh's book here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3405-extractive-capitalismHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishellPlease rate and review This Is Hell! wherever you get your podcasts. It really helps the show ascend the algorithm to reach new listeners.
Matthew Boedy, author of “Speaking of Evil”, comes to This Is Hell!! to talk about his new book "The Seven Mountains Mandate: Exposing the Dangerous Plan to Christianize America and Destroy Democracy" published by Westminster John Knox Press. Matthew was targeted by Turning Point USA in 2016 and listed on its “professor watchlist” after speaking up against allowing concealed guns on college campuses. As one of the foremost experts on Turning Point USA and its founder and CEO Charlie Kirk, Boedy exposes their role in perpetuating Christian nationalism in the United States and the threat to democracy they pose. He currently teaches rhetoric and composition courses at the University of North Georgia.A new installment of “This Week In Rotten History” from Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview.Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell
Omar Zahzah joins us to discuss his new book, "Terms of Servitude: Zionism, Silicon Valley, and Digital/Settler-Colonialism in the Palestinian Liberation Struggle" (Seven Stories Press). "This Day in Rotten History" from Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview.Check out Omar's book here: https://www.sevenstories.com/books/4729-terms-of-servitudeHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishellPlease rate and review This Is Hell! wherever you get your podcasts. It really helps the show ascend the algorithm to reach new listeners.
Nancy Hiemstra and Deirdre Conlon join us to discuss their new book, "Immigration Detention, Inc.: The Big Business of Locking up Migrants" from Pluto Press. "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.Check out Nancy and Deirdre's book here: https://www.plutobooks.com/product/immigration-detention-inc/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishellPlease rate and review This Is Hell! wherever you get your podcasts. It really helps the show ascend the algorithm to reach new listeners.
Susan Greenhalgh joins us to discuss her new book, "Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca Cola" (University of Chicago Press). "This Day in Rotten History" from Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview.Check out Susan's book here: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo221451790.htmlHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishellPlease rate and review This Is Hell! wherever you get your podcasts. It really helps the show ascend the algorithm to reach new listeners.
Due to an unexpected rescheduling of a guest, we present a rare mailbag episode that delves into our esteemed listeners' questions and insights. "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview. No producers were harmed in the making of this episode.Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishellPlease rate and review This Is Hell! wherever you get your podcasts. It really helps the show ascend the algorithm to reach new listeners.
Jennifer C. Pan joins This Is Hell! to talk about her new book “Selling Social Justice: Why The Rich Love Antiracism” published by Verso Books. (https://www.versobooks.com/products/2919-selling-social-justice)Jennifer C. Pan is a writer in Los Angeles whose work has appeared in the Nation, the Atlantic, Dissent, Damage, and elsewhere. She was formerly a host of the Jacobin Show and a staff writer at the New Republic.A new installment of “This Week In Rotten History” from Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview.Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishellHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon.
Alana Lentin joins us to discuss her new book from Pluto Press, The New Racial Regime: Recalibrations of White Supremacy. "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.Check out Alana's book here: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745347967/the-new-racial-regime/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishellPlease rate and review This Is Hell! wherever you get your podcasts. It really helps the show ascend the algorithm to reach new listeners.
Journalist Megan Greenwell joins This Is Hell! to about her new book "Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream" published by Harper Collins. (https://www.megangreenwell.com/book)Megan Greenwell is a writer, editor, and newsroom leader. Megan worked as the editor of Wired.com and, for four months, the interim editor-in-chief of WIRED, overseeing the publication’s transition to a global newsroom. Megan has written or edited for publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, New York Magazine, WIRED, and ESPN. She is also the deputy director of the Princeton Summer Journalism Program, a workshop and college access initiative for students from low-income backgrounds.A new installment of “This Week In Rotten History” from Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview.Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishellHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon.
Gilbert Achcar joins us to discuss his recent book, "Gaza Catastrophe: The Genocide in World-Historical Perspective" (University of California Press). "This Day in Rotten History" from Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview.Check out Gilbert's book here: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/the-gaza-catastrophe/paperHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishellPlease rate and review This Is Hell! wherever you get your podcasts. It really helps the show ascend the algorithm to reach new listeners.
Mark Weisbrot and Francisco Rodríguez join us to discuss their Lancet article, co-authored with Silvio Rendón, "Effects of international sanctions on age-specific mortality: a cross-national panel data analysis," and their articles based on that research, "Sanctions can kill as many people as wars" (Financial Times), and "Rethink sanctions. They’re killing as many people as war does" (LA Times). "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.Check out Mark and Francisco's study, co-authored with Silvio Rendón: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(25)00189-5/fulltextCheck out Mark's article in the LA Times: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-07-24/united-states-sanctions-deathsCheck out Francisco's article at Financial Times: https://www.ft.com/content/99206b73-92c4-41f1-9677-d4a1e6fc78b1?accessToken=zwAGO8yGY2UgkdOZIGtzksRB8dOWd9Sh5vx4sQ.MEQCIFP6yeUhZIJ4mPS1-GjgdlEcQAaHOOh8YjxiUWaqlMAJAiB5JbhVt6_de4NuKcvk8TCwva2ZtyzJMBscOiQnyHKTiA&sharetype=gift&token=4d21afe8-c829-4682-8cd0-4ea688ff1ca7 (sorry about the long url)Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishellPlease rate and review This Is Hell! wherever you get your podcasts. It really helps the show ascend the algorithm to reach new listeners.
Rob Wallace and Rita Valenti join us to discuss their recent articles at Truthout that cover the Trump administration's dismantling of public health in the United States. These include "Trump Is Trying to Dismantle Public Health — and Replace It With a Police State," "'Make America Healthy Again' Aims to Make Public Health Your Responsibility," and "Labor Was Crucial in Building Public Health Institutions Trump Wants to Destroy.""This Day in Rotten History" from Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview.Check out Rob and Rita's writing here: https://truthout.org/articles/trump-is-trying-to-dismantle-public-health-and-replace-it-with-a-police-state/here: https://truthout.org/articles/make-america-healthy-again-aims-to-make-public-health-your-responsibility/and here: https://truthout.org/articles/labor-was-crucial-in-building-public-health-institutions-trump-wants-to-destroy/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishellPlease rate and review This Is Hell! wherever you get your podcasts. It really helps the show ascend the algorithm to reach new listeners.
All-new longform interview Hell returns at last!Mikaela Loach joins us to discuss her new book, "It’s Not That Radical: Climate Action to Transform Our World" (Haymarket Books). "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.Check out Mikaela's book here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2583-it-s-not-that-radicalHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishellPlease rate and review This Is Hell! wherever you get your podcasts. It really helps the show ascend the algorithm to reach new listeners.
We wrap up our three-part series on "No Cop City, No Cop World," by speaking with co-editor and contributor Kamau Franklin, founder of Community Movement Builders, a Black member-based collective of community residents and activists serving Black working-class and poor Black communities.Kamau's essay in the collection is titled, "Is This Enough Black Folks for You, Andre Dickens?," which is a reference to the current Atlanta mayor."The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.Check out "No Cop City, No Cop World" here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2541-no-cop-city-no-cop-worldHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Journalist and author Suzy Hansen will returns to This Is Hell! To talk about her New York Magazine article, "Crimes of the Century: How Israel, with the help of the U.S., broke not only Gaza but the foundations of humanitarian law."Suzy is the author of, "Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World," which was a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize. Her new book, "From Life Itself: Turkey, Istanbul, and a Neighborhood in the Age of Erdoğan," will be published in April by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/israel-palestine-gaza-war-crimes-genocide.htmlA new installment of “This Week In Rotten History” from Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview.Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell
John Washington joins us to discuss his recent piece in the New York Review of Books, "The Roots of Bukele’s Gulag." An all new "Rotten History" and "The Moment of Truth" segments follow the interview.Check out John's article here: https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/06/01/the-roots-of-bukeles-gulag/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
While Chuck is out this week, we revisit our first interview from 2020. Theorist Albena Azmanova examines the dynamics of post-2008 precarity capitalism, the left's long failure to strike through capitalism's competitive production of profit, and explains why radical change for the precarious multitude is possible without a revolutionary break - but through subversive pragmatism.Albena is author of Capitalism on Edge: How Fighting Precarity Can Achieve Radical Change Without Crisis or Utopia from Columbia University Press.
Micah Herskind returns to This Is Hell! to discuss his contribution to the new edited volume, "No Cop City, No Cop World: Lessons from the Movement" from Haymarket Books. After the interview, Jeff Dorchen delivers a live, in-studio "Moment of Truth."Check out Micah's book here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2541-no-cop-city-no-cop-worldHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Paisley Currah joins us to discuss his New Yorker piece, "Donald Trump's War on Gender Is Also a War on Government." "Rotten History" by Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview.Check out Paisley's article here: https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/donald-trumps-war-on-gender-is-also-a-war-on-governmentHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell
Leigh Claire La Berge joins us to discuss her new book published today by Haymarket, "Fake Work: How I Began to Suspect Capitalism is a Joke." "Rotten History" by Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview.Check out Leigh's book here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2534-fake-workHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell
ProPublica's Molly Redden joins us to discuss her article, "The “Invasion” Invention: The Far Right’s Long Legal Battle to Make Immigrants the Enemy." A new "Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.Check out Molly's article here: https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-administration-immigration-invasion-rhetoric-courtsHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell
Mariah Parker joins us to discuss her chapter in the new co-authored book, "No Cop City, No Cop World: Lessons from the Movement." A classic "Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.Check out Mariah's new book here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/events/717-no-cop-city-no-cop-worldHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell
Dr. Emily M. Bender and Dr. Alex Hanna come on the show to talk about their new book “The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want” published but LitHub. The book tackles the pitfalls of AI and why it’s so crucial to understand the capitalist greed that is manipulating AI behind the scenes. https://thecon.ai/A new installment of “This Week In Rotten History” from Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview.Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell
Candice Bernd returns to This Is Hell! to discuss her recent writing at The American Prospect, "The Crypto Racket." After the interview, we hear a classic "Moment of Truth" from Jeff Dorchen.Check out Candice's article here: https://prospect.org/power/2025-05-09-crypto-racket-texas-bitcoin-mining/
Lihi Yona and Itamar Mann join us to discuss their recent UCLA Law Review piece, "Defending Jews From the Definition of Antisemitism." A special 10th anniversary installment of "This Week in Rotten History" from Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview.Check out Lihi and Itamar's piece here: https://www.uclalawreview.org/defending-jews-from-the-definition-of-antisemitism/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Sociologist Cedric de Leon joins us to discuss his new book, "Freedom Train: Black Politics and the Story of Interracial Labor Solidarity" from University of California Press. "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.Check out Cedric's book here: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/freedom-train/paperHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Sophie Lewis returns to This Is Hell! to discuss her new book, "Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation" from Haymarket Books. "This Week in Rotten History" from Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview.Check out Sophie's book here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2440-enemy-feminismsHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Historian Andrew Hartman returns to This Is Hell! to discuss his new book from University of Chicago Press, "Karl Marx in America." "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.Check out Andrew's book here: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/K/bo245100866.htmlHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Academic and author Jodi Dean returns to This Is Hell! to talk about her new book, "Capital's Grave: Neofeudalism and the New Class Struggle" published by Verso Books.https://www.versobooks.com/products/3144-capital-s-graveWe also have a new “This Week in Rotten History”.Keep our website with a more than ten-year archive of past shows absolutely free, and our show completely listener supported, refusing all advertising and corporate foundation money by following us on Patreon at patreon.com/thisishell and get all sorts of bonus content.
Greg Grandin returns to This Is Hell! to discuss his new book, "America, América: A New History of the New World." "Rotten History" from Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview.Check out Greg's book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/747326/america-america-by-greg-grandin/
Malcolm Harris Returns to This Is Hell! to discuss his new book, "What's Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis." "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.Check out Malcolm's book here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/malcolm-harris/whats-left/9780316577410/?lens=little-brown
Chris Hedges discusses his new book, "A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine."Check out Chris's book here: https://www.sevenstories.com/books/4716-a-genocide-foretoldHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Alec Karakatsanis returns to talk about his new book, “Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News.” Alec founded the Civil Rights Corps, an organization that challenges systemic injustices in the U.S. legal system. "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.Check out Alec's book here: https://thenewpress.org/books/copaganda/
Author Quinn Slobodian returns to “This Is Hell!” to talk about his new book, “Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ and the Capitalism of the Far Right”, published by Zone Books.Check out Quinn’s book here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9781890951917?srsltid=AfmBOopa361sL5mow9Y4zSXDsHQXyvTQBZ0YZASHJvW-UyhbliOMShxtKeep TiH! free and completely listener supported by subscribing to our weekly bonus Patreon podcast or visiting thisishell.com/pages/support
Valeria Graziano, Marcell Mars and Tomislav Medak discuss their book, "Pirate Care: Acts Against the Criminalization of Solidarity." "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen and "Rotten History" by Renaldo Migaldi both follow the interview.Check out their book here: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745349800/pirate-care/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Award-winning author Pankaj Mishra returns to “This Is Hell!” to talk about his new book, “The World After Gaza: A History”, published by the Penguin Random House.Check out Pankaj’s book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/780437/the-world-after-gaza-by-pankaj-mishra/Keep TiH! free and completely listener supported by subscribing to our weekly bonus Patreon podcast or visiting thisishell.com/pages/support
Noliwe Rooks returns to This Is Hell! to discuss her recent book, "Integrated: How American Schools Failed Black Children" from Penguin. "Rotten History" from Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview.Check out Noliwe's book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/721962/integrated-by-noliwe-rooks/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Tanner Mirrlees on the new Cost of War paper from the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University entitled, "The Militarization of Movies and Television." "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.Check out Tanner's writing here: https://home.watson.brown.edu/research/research-briefs/militarization-movies-and-tvHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Lindsay Koshgarian joins us to discuss the Institute for Policy Studies report, "The High Moral Stakes of the Policy Battles Raging in Washington." "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.Check out their report here: https://ips-dc.org/summary-high-moral-stakes/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Journalist and cultural critic Kristen Martin joins “This Is Hell!” to talk about her new book, "The Sun Won’t Come Out Tomorrow: The Dark History of American Orphanhood”, published by the Bold Type Books.Check out Kristen’s book here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/kristen-martin/the-sun-wont-come-out-tomorrow/9781645030348/?lens=bold-type-booksVisit Kristen’s website: https://www.kristenmartin.net/Keep TiH! free and completely listener supported by subscribing to our weekly bonus Patreon podcast or visiting thisishell.com/pages/support
Award-winning author Omar El Akkad joins “This Is Hell!” to talk about his new book, "One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This”, published by the Penguin Books.Check out Omar’s book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/777485/one-day-everyone-will-have-always-been-against-this-by-omar-el-akkad/?fbclid=IwY2xjawI9NZpleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHRHlIY5dAk3hrnB8dk0wOc9P_cL3vOlRO6pa78Ux07cr9tv4PR_GhwkMrg_aem_ltRUIYUqFxKHG-AUz9rHsgKeep TiH! free and completely listener supported by subscribing to our weekly bonus Patreon podcast or visiting thisishell.com/pages/support
Labor scholar Eric Blanc joins us to discuss his new book published just today by the University of California Press titled, "We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big." "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.Check out Eric's book here: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/we-are-the-union/paperHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Historian Timothy W. Ryback joins us to discuss his Atlantic essays, "How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days: He used the constitution to shatter the constitution," "The Oligarchs Who Came to Regret Supporting Hitler They helped him in pursuit of profit. Many ended up in concentration camps," and, "‘Herr Hitler, Do You Really Believe Me Capable of Such a Dirty Trick?’ The chancellor rewarded loyalty with loyalty. Until he didn’t."Timothy is director of the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation in The Hague. He is the author of several books on Hitler’s Germany, most recently, "Takeover: Hitler’s Final Rise to Power.""The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.Check out Timothy's writing at The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/author/timothy-w-ryback/ Check out his new book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/727483/takeover-by-timothy-w-ryback/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Physicist Erald Kolasi returns to “This Is Hell!” to talk about his new book, "The Physics of Capitalism: How a New Political Ecology Can Change the World”, published by the Monthly Review.Check out Erald’s book here: https://monthlyreview.org/product/the-physics-of-capitalism-how-a-new-political-ecology-can-change-the-world/Keep TiH! free and completely listener supported by subscribing to our weekly bonus Patreon podcast: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Chuck is out of action this week COVID, so we are featuring past interviews with upcoming guests who all have new books coming out on the days we are scheduled to interview them in upcoming weeks. Today's episode features two listener-favorite historians. First up is Quinn Slobodian on his 2023 book "Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy." Greg Grandin follows with a discussion of his Pulitzer Prize-winning 2020 book "The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America."A classic Moment of Truth with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Chuck is out of action this week COVID, so we are featuring past interviews with upcoming guests who all have new books coming out on the days we are scheduled to interview them in upcoming weeks. Today's episode features two guests whose work imagine a more emancipatory, dignified, sustainable future should socialist imperatives govern the future of human development. First up is political scientist Jodi Dean, who joined us in 2022 to discuss her book "Socialist Reconstruction: A Better Future for the United States" from 1804 Books. Physicist and researcher Erald Kolasi follows in a 2021 interview in which he outlines his vision for a more ecologically sustainable future as discussed in his Monthly Review article titled "The Ecological State."Rotten History from our dear friend and comrade Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview.Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Mike German, co-author with Beth Zasloff of the new book, "Policing White Supremacy: The Enemy Within," returns to This is Hell! Mike is a former FBI agent who went undercover in the far right whtie supremacsit movement and has appeared on the show a couple of times. "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.Check out Mike's book here: https://thenewpress.com/books/policing-white-supremacyHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Disinformation and far-right digital media scholar Becca Lewis, who posted The Guardian article, “‘Headed for technofascism’: the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley."Check out Becca Lewis new Guardian piece at this link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2025/jan/29/silicon-valley-rightwing-technofascism?fbclid=IwY2xjawIYf-tleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHc2nPsngc-4BdtZ_VAwm84lbBIMTOkq8WaTAvn1nYmXhUWlgWa_lfeyW2w_aem_L7nLbYIVbWoIlBoxR9OKLwBecca served as an expert witness in the defamation lawsuits brought against Alex Jones by parents of Sandy Hook shooting victims. She is currently writing a book on the rise of reactionary politics in Silicon Valley and online.Keep TiH! free and completely listener supported by subscribing to our weekly bonus Patreon podcast or visiting thisishell.com/pages/support
Journalist and historian Eoin Higgins, author of the new book, "Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left." "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.Check out Eoin's book here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/eoin-higgins/owned/9781645030461/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Award-winning journalist Natasha Hakimi Zapata joins us to discuss her new book, “Another World Is Possible: Lessons For America From Around The Globe”, published by The New Press. Her articles can be found be found in In These TImes, The Nation, and The New York Times.Purchase the book at this link: https://thenewpress.com/books/another-world-possibleNatasha Hakimi Zapata’s website: https://www.natashahakimizapata.com/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell
Jeff Bryant joins us to discuss his recent writing on the threats facing community public education and the ways schools and communities are resisting them. Articles to be discussed include "How a Struggling Boston School Found Success in the Roots of its Haitian American Community," and "Voters Across the Political Spectrum Gave Public Education Important Wins in the 2024 Election," both available at The Progressive. Rotten History from Renaldo Migaldi and The Moment of Truth with Jeff Dorchen both follow the interview.Check out Jeff's recent writing at The Progressive here: https://progressive.org/topics/jeff-bryant/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Maya Schenwar returns to This is Hell! Maya will be joined by the co-editor Kim Wilson who are co-editors of the new collection, "We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition" from Haymarket Books. Maya is editor in-chief of truthout. Kim is the cofounder, cohost, and producer of Beyond Prisons, a podcast on incarceration and prison abolition.Rotten History from Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview.Check out their new edited volume here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2446-we-grow-the-world-togetherHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Sarah Jaffe, author of “Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone and Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt” joins us to discuss her new book “From the Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire”, published by Bold Type Books.Purchase the book at this link: https://bookshop.org/p/books/from-the-ashes-grief-and-revolution-in-a-world-on-fire-sarah-jaffe/21156243?ean=9781541703490Sarah Jaffe’s website: https://sarahljaffe.com/Jeffrey Dorchen also brings us his latest "Moment of Truth".Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell
Sonali Kolhatkar, author of “Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice” joins us to discuss her new book “Talking About Abolition: A Police-Free World Is Possible”, published by Seven Stories Press.Purchase the book at this link: https://sevenstories.com/books/4670-talking-about-abolition?srsltid=AfmBOopfJr7eEoqqTYOKWx9Q_aJhojtOxT5fyipK4DfbqnIfm4q0VBy1Sonali Kolhatkar’s website: https://www.sonalikolhatkar.comHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell
Liz Pelly joins This Is Hell! to discuss her Harper's cover article titled "The Ghosts in the Machine: Spotify's Plot Against Musicians," excerpted from her new book, Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist (One Signal Publishers). An all-new Moment of Truth with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.Check out Liz's article: https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machine-liz-pelly-spotify-musicians/And her book: https://lizpelly.info/bookHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell
Kellie Carter-Jackson returns to discuss her new book, We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance (Seal Press). Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Best of 2024:Gareth Gore on his book, "Opus: The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy inside the Catholic Church," published by Simon and Schuster on the day of the interview.Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Gabrielle Perry joins us to discuss her recent Scalawag article, "Louisiana is the blueprint for further fascist repression." Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Returning to This is Hell! is listener favorite Sophie Lewis, author of Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family, as well as Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation. Sophie will be on to talk about her new writing at The Drift, "Lipstick on the Pigs: Kamala Harris and the Lineage of the Female Cop.""The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Cory Doctorow on his Financial Times article, "‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything: The term describes the slow decay of online platforms such as Facebook. But what if we’ve entered the ‘enshittocene’?" "Rotten History" follows the interview.Cory also has a new novel, The Bezel. Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Ajay Singh Chaudhary returns to This Is Hell! to talk about his Baffler Magazine article, "Sick and Tired: Against Resilience," an excerpt from, The Exhausted of the Earth: Politics in a Burning World (Repeater Books). Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Dan Piepenbring on his Baffler article, "K-Pop: Our forefathers did dissociatives." Dan is the New Books columnist for Harper’s and the co-author, with Tom O’Neill, of CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties. He’s currently working on a book about ketamine. "The Moment of Truth" follows the interview.Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon.
Tad DeLay returns to This Is Hell! to discuss his new book from Verso, Future of Denial: The Ideologies of Climate Change. "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Matthew D. Taylor joins us to discuss his book, The Violent Take It by Force: The Christian Movement That Is Threatening Our Democracy, published just yesterday by Broadleaf Books. Jeff Dorchen joins us after the interview to deliver a new segment of "The Moment of Truth."Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Kate Manne returns to talk about her book, Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia.Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Economist Rob Larson returns to This Is Hell! to dicsuss Mastering the Universe: The Obscene Wealth of the Ruling Class, What They Do with Their Money, and Why You Should Hate Them Even More (Haymarket Books) on the day it's published. Check out Rob's book here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2215-mastering-the-universeHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon.
Past guest Stephen Zunes returns to speak with us about his recent Truthout writing including, "Biden Continues to Provide Israel Billions for War Crimes," "Biden’s Response to Israel’s ICC Prosecution Is an Attack on International Law," and "Don’t Buy the Right-Wing Disinformation Campaign on “From the River to the Sea.” Stephen is a professor of Politics at the University of San Francisco, who is currently the Torgny Segerstedt Visiting Research professor at the Gothenburg University in Sweden. "Rotten History" follows the interview.Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Historian Gerald Horne returns to the show to discuss his new book, Armed Struggle?: Panthers & Communists; Black Nationalists and Liberals in Southern California through the Sixties and Seventies. "Rotten History" follows the interview.Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
We wrap up the week with the return of writer, theorist, and recovering academic Sophie Lewis to talk about her new writing at Salvage Magazine, "Some of my best enemies are feminists: on Zionist feminism." This will be Sophie's fourth appearance on This is Hell! and her interviews have repeatedly been selected by listeners as their favorites of the year each time she has appeared. Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon.
Nevin Kallepalli joins us to discuss his writing at the Baffler, “Hindutva University: Meet the group spreading Hindu supremacist propaganda on college campuses”. “Moment of Truth” from Jeff Dorchen will follow the interview.Check out Nevin’s article here: https://thebaffler.com/latest/university-of-hindutva-kallepalliHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell
Elaine Scarry joins us to discuss her writing at the Boston Review, “The Extortionist Doctrine : On the persistence of U.S. nuclear deterrence policy.’” "Rotten History" from Renaldo Migaldi follow the interview.Check out Elaine’s article here: https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-extortionists-doctrine/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell
Rebecca John joins us to discuss her writing at DeSmog, "Revealed: Big Oil Told 70 Years Ago That Fossil Fuel Emissions Could Impact ‘Civilization.’" "Rotten History" from Renaldo Migaldi and "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follow the interview.Check out Rebecca's article here: https://www.desmog.com/2024/11/12/revealed-big-oil-told-70-years-ago-that-fossil-fuel-emissions-could-impact-civilization/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell
Alberto Toscano joins us to discuss his In These TImes piece, "Liberalism Will Cost Us the Earth - Trump’s recoronation is another symptom of centrism’s global bankruptcy.."Check out Alberto's article here: https://inthesetimes.com/article/liberalism-will-cost-us-the-earth?fbclid=IwY2xjawGzEB1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHSSXdh3TbVJILW-Ke60gd7sHll2I-8Y0gu8Hpt8uILxKhva2d1OWrwLeYQ_aem_8ZjUNhGUyyNj4NkRN7PLnAHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell
Yoav Litvin joins us to discuss his Al Jazeera column, "Project Esther: A Trumpian blueprint to crush anticolonial resistance: The Heritage Foundation strategy named after the biblical Jewish queen offers insights into the persecution those who oppose Zionism and white-supremacy will likely face in Trump’s America.""The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.Check out Yoav's article here: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/11/15/project-esther-a-trumpian-blueprint-to-crush-anticolonial-resistanceHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell
Author and scholar Alex de Waal returns to the show to discuss his recent article at the Boston Review titled "Engineers of Calamity - Famine Denial's Past and Present From Ukraine to Gaza".Check out Alex's article here: https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/engineers-of-calamity/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishellFamine Denial's Past and Present/Alex De Waal By This Is Hell! is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
Francis Northwood joins us to discuss his new Baffler article titles "Unsafe Bets - Polymarket’s great expectations".Check out Francis' article :https://thebaffler.com/latest/unsafe-bets-northwood
Legal scholar Karen Greenberg returns to the show to discuss her recent article at TomDispatch titled "It’s Not Just About the President It’s About the Presidency."Check out Karen's article here: https://tomdispatch.com/its-not-just-about-the-president/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell
Returning to This is Hell! is listener favorite Sophie Lewis, author of Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family, as well as Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation. Sophie will be on to talk about her new writing at The Drift, "Lipstick on the Pigs: Kamala Harris and the Lineage of the Female Cop.""The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.Check out Sophie's article here: https://www.thedriftmag.com/lipstick-on-the-pigs/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell
Co-founder of the new feminist blog, Flytrap, Nicole Froio joins us to discuss her new piece titled, "The (Feminist) Empire Strikes Back." The Flytrap Media is a worker-owned, intersectional, and expansive feminist media group that thinks beyond clicks and hashtag-engagement. "Rotten History" from Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview.Check out Nicole's piece here: https://theflytrap.beehiiv.com/p/the-feminist-empire-strikes-backHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell
Anthropologist Sylvia J. Martin discusses her recent the Monthly Review article, "UARCs: The American Universities that Produce Warfighters." She is the author of numerous articles on globalization and the intersection of narrative and the U. S. national security state.Check out Sylvia's article here: https://monthlyreview.org/2024/09/01/uarcs-the-american-universities-that-produce-warfighters/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell
Returning to the show for the third time, Jennifer C. Berkshire wrote the American Prospect article, "Breaking the Public Schools: Red states are enacting universal education vouchers, threatening budget calamity and potentially degrading student achievement." Jennifer is the host of the education podcast 'Have You Heard' and the author, with another past guest Jack Schneider, of "The Education Wars: A Citizen’s Guide and Defense Manual." "Rotten History" from Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview.Check out Jennifer's article here: https://prospect.org/education/2024-10-11-breaking-public-schools/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell
Tracy Rosenthal returns to discuss her new book, "Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis" from Haymarket Books. Check out Tracy's book here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2443-abolish-rentHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell
Tracy Rosenthal returns to discuss her new book, "Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis" from Haymarket Books. "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.Check out Tracy's book here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2443-abolish-rentHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell
National Book Award finalist Arlie Russell Hochschild returns to This is Hell! to speak with us about her new book, "Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right." "Rotten History" from Renaldo Migaldi follows the interviewCheck out Arlie's new book: https://thenewpress.com/books/stolen-prideHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell
Journalist and lawyer Jessica Pishko joins us to discuss her new book, "The Highest Law in the Land: How the Unchecked Power of Sheriffs Threatens Democracy." "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.Check out Jessica's book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/707263/the-highest-law-in-the-land-by-jessica-pishko/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell
Sociologist Musa al-Gharbi returns to discuss his new book, "We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite," published just today by Princeton University Press. "Rotten History" by Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview.Check out Musa's book here: https://musaalgharbi.com/we-have-never-been-woke-available-now/Musa is currently on a book tour. Check out the dates here: https://musaalgharbi.com/book-tour-we-have-never-been-woke/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell
Matthew D. Taylor joins us to discuss his book, "The Violent Take It by Force: The Christian Movement That Is Threatening Our Democracy," published just yesterday by Broadleaf Books. Jeff Dorchen joins us after the interview to deliver a new segment of "The Moment of Truth."Check out Matthew's book here: https://www.broadleafbooks.com/store/product/9781506497785/The-Violent-Take-It-by-ForceHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell
Gareth Gore on his book, "Opus: The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy inside the Catholic Church," published just today by Simon and Schuster. "Rotten History" by Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview.Check out Gareth's book here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Opus/Gareth-Gore/9781668016145Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell
We have a treat for all you New Yorkers out there. Writer, academic, organizer, and fourth-generation Staten Islander Dennis Hogan joins us to discuss his recent article from The Baffler, "I Got Mine: Staten Island's Politics of Resentment." "Rotten History" by Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview, as does an all-new "Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen live from another borough of New York.Check out Dennis's article here: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/i-got-mine-hoganHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell
Center for Economic and Policy Research's Francesca Emanuele on her article, "Gaza Is Causing Diplomatic Rifts in the Western Hemisphere: The Organization of American States’ pro-Israel stance may erode its legitimacy in the region," at Foreign Policy.Check out Francesca's article here: https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/09/12/israel-palestine-gaza-war-oas-latin-america-almagro-us-far-right/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell
Kellie Carter-Jackson returns to discuss her new book, "We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance" (Seal Press). "Rotten History" by Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview.Check out Kellie's book here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/kellie-carter-jackson/we-refuse/9781541602908/?lens=seal-pressHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell
Heba Gowayed discusses her In These Times article, "Borders and the Exchange of Humans for Debt: Borders and debt are new instruments of violence in a system that has had many names." Heba is an Associate Professor of Sociology at CUNY Hunter College. She is author of, "Refuge: How the State Shapes Human Potential.""The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.Check out Heba's article here: https://inthesetimes.com/article/borders-exchange-humans-debt-asylum-global-southHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell
Returning to This is Hell!, On Barak, author of, "Heat, a HistoryLessons from the Middle East for a Warming Planet." On is a social and cultural historian of science and technology and Professor of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University.After the interview, we hear a new "Rotten History" by Renaldo Migaldi.Check out Barak's book here: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/heat-a-history/paperHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell
Ben Norton joins us to discuss his recent article at the Geopolitical Economy Report titled, "How US Big Tech monopolies colonized the world: Welcome to neo-feudalism." After the interview, we hear a new "Rotten History" by Renaldo Migaldi.Check out Ben's article here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/08/19/us-big-tech-monopolies-neo-feudalism/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell
Gabrielle Perry joins us to discuss her recent Scalawag article, "Louisiana is the blueprint for further fascist repression." Jeff Dorchen delivers a new "The Moment of Truth" after the interview.Check out Gabrielle's article here: https://scalawagmagazine.org/2024/07/louisiana-is-the-blueprint-for-further-fascist-repression/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell
Shilpa Jindia discusses her recent Baffler article, "Freedom from Dissent: The Independence of Public Universities Is Under Attack." "Rotten History" by Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview.Check out Shilpa's article here: https://thebaffler.com/latest/freedom-from-dissent-jindiaHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell
Shai Parnes, Spokesperson for B'Tselem, The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, on their new report, "Welcome to Hell," a report on the abuse and inhuman treatment of Palestinians held in Israeli custody since October 7th 2023. B’Tselem collected testimonies from 55 Palestinians held during that time and released, almost all with no charges. "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.Check out B'Tselem's report here: https://www.btselem.org/sites/default/files/publications/202408_welcome_to_hell_eng.pdfHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell
Economist Rob Larson returns to This Is Hell! to dicsuss "Mastering the Universe: The Obscene Wealth of the Ruling Class, What They Do with Their Money, and Why You Should Hate Them Even More," (Haymarket Books) on the day it's published. "Rotten History" by Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview.Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell
Daniel Trilling discusses his London Review of Books article, "This Time It's Worse," on the UK far-right riots. "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen and "Rotten History" by Renaldo Migaldi follow the interview.Check out Daniel's article here: https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/august/this-time-it-s-worseHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell
Historian Quinn Slobodian joins This is Hell! to discuss his new book, Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy. Quinn is the award-winning author of, Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism, which has been translated into six languages. He is a professor of the history of ideas at Wellesley College. A classic "Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.Check out Quinn's book here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250753892/crackupcapitalismHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell
Journalist Jacob Hamburger examines the present state and future choices of France's left wing insurgent movement La France Insoumise - rebelling against the failures of France's mainstream socialist party and the successes of its center right neoliberal president, and wavering between chasing populist energy and uniting a splintered French left. After the interview, we hear Renaldo Migaldi's handpicked "The Worst of Rotten History."Jacob wrote the article Whose Populism? The Mixed Messages of La France Insoumise for Dissent: https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/whose-populism-mixed-messages-france-insoumise-melenchon-left/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell
Our listener-favorite showcase continues with Jewish Currents editor-in-chief Arielle Angel joins This Is Hell! to discuss her essay on current state of the Palestinian liberation movement, "'We Cannot Cross Until We Carry Each Other.'" We will also hear a classic The Past Inside the Present with past-correspondent and producer Sebastian Wuepper that offers a succinct and nuanced unpacking of the process of settler colonialism and weighs in on whether or not the term correctly applies to Zionism.Check out Arielle's article here: https://jewishcurrents.org/we-cannot-cross-until-we-carry-each-otherHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell
Anthropologist David Graeber explores the bureaucratic dimension that rules our lives, takes our money, and stretches between the public and private, the right and the left, between capitalism and whatever comes next. A classic "Moment of Truth" from Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Chuck interviews sociologist Laura Mauldin on her Baffler piece "Care Tactics: Hacking an Ableist World." Check out Laura's article here: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/care-tactics-mauldinHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Chuck interviews sociologist Laura Mauldin on her Baffler piece "Care Tactics: Hacking an Ableist World." An installment of classic "Rotten History" segments handpicked by Renaldo Migaldi himself that we like to call "The Worst of Rotten History" follows the interview.Check out Laura's article here: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/care-tactics-mauldinHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Our first installment of our two-week showcase of listener favorites features the late great labor organizer Jane McAlevey. In this July 29, 2017 interview, Jane charts out a course for claiming power in the Trump era - around the bought-off electoral system captured by the rich, and beyond the short-term battles of the online left - towards true power for the American worker, and explains why that path starts with class conciousness and a willingness to battle capital at the point of production.Jane is author of: Raising Expectations and Raising Hell, My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement (Verso, 2012): https://janemcalevey.com/book/raising-expectations-and-raising-hell-my-decade-fighting-for-the-labor-movement/No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age (Oxford University Press, 2016): https://janemcalevey.com/book/no-shortcuts-organizing-for-power-in-the-new-gilded-age/A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy (Ecco Press, 2020): https://janemcalevey.com/book/a-collective-bargain-unions-organizing-and-the-fight-for-democracy/Rules to Win By: Power and Participation in Union Negotiations (Oxford University Press, 2023): https://janemcalevey.com/book/rules-to-win-by-power-and-participation-in-union-negotiations/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Award-winning investigative journalist and podcaster Cerise Castle returns to discuss her latest article at the Los Angeles Public Press, "How LASD surveilled me, a journalist, after I started reporting on deputy gangs: More than 50 LASD employees sent emails about me in the months after I published my reporting." After the interview, Jeff Dorchen delivers "The Moment of Truth" live from Second Story Studios!Check out Cerise's article here: https://lapublicpress.org/2024/07/lasd-surveils-journalist-deputy-gang-reporter/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Neve Gordon on his Jewish Currents article (co-authored with Nicola Perugini), "A Legal Justification for Genocide." "Rotten History" by Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview.Check out Neve's article here: https://jewishcurrents.org/human-shields-gaza-israel-a-legal-justification-for-genocideHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Ann Neumann returns to This is Hell! to discuss her Baffler Magazine article, "Pain and Suffering: The extraordinary power of opium products to alleviate pain is complicated by the language." "The Moment of Truth" follows the interview.Check out Ann's article here: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/pain-and-suffering-neumannHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Award-winning investigative journalist Boyce Upholt returns to discuss his article at The New Republic, "An Everglades Scientist on Trial in Ron DeSantis’s Kingdom: A powerful nonprofit, closely allied with the Florida governor, sued one of its former scientists for stealing trade secrets. What was it really after?" "Rotten History" follows the interview.Check out Boyce's article here: https://newrepublic.com/article/182364/everglades-scientist-trial-ron-desantis-floridaHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Shannon Heffernan of the Marshall Project discusses her article, "Serving Time for Their Abusers’ Crimes: The Marshall Project found nearly 100 people who were punished for the actions of their abusers under little-known laws like “accomplice liability.”Check out Sharon's article here: https://www.themarshallproject.org/2024/06/13/abuse-domestic-violence-survivors-liability-prisonHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Recent guest Kavitha Chukuru of Al Jazeera returns to talk about her new Fault Lines documentary, 'The Night Won’t End," the product of Al Jazeera’s longstanding commitment to on-the-ground reporting inside Gaza. It was made possible by the work of brave journalists who worked for weeks in harrowing conditions to tell the story of three families who lived through horrific experiences and have been struggling to survive inside Gaza.Check out the documentary here: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/fault-lines/2024/6/21/the-night-wont-end-bidens-war-on-gaza-2Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Astra Taylor on her new book from AK Press, "The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart." "Rotten History" follows the interview.Check out Astra's book here: https://www.akpress.org/the-age-of-insecurity.htmlHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Writer and filmmaker Emma Claire Foley on her Jacobin article, "How Israel Became a Nuclear Power."Check out Emma's article here: https://jacobin.com/2024/06/israel-nuclear-weapons-nonproliferation-iran-gazaHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Tad DeLay returns to This Is Hell! to discuss his new book from Verso, "Future of Denial: The Ideologies of Climate Change." "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.Check out Tad's book here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/2857-future-of-denialHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Historian Gerald Horne returns to the show to discuss his new book, "Armed Struggle?: Panthers & Communists; Black Nationalists and Liberals in Southern California through the sixties and seventies." "Rotten History" follows the interview.Check out Gerald's book here: https://www.intpubnyc.com/browse/armed-struggle/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Zac Chapman and Nairuti Shastry discuss their article at The Forge, "Will the Revolution Be Funded?," which is against big philanthropy and argues for community 'self-funding.'Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Mary Jo McConahay on her article at The Progressive, "Genocide Trial in Guatemala Brings Memories of Israel’s Role in the Killings." "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview. We also announce this week's Question from Hell! winner.Check out Mary's article here: https://progressive.org/latest/genocide-trial-in-guatemala-brings-memories-of-israels-role-in-the-killings-mcconahay-20240507/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright on his recent Black Agenda Report piece, "If You Want to See White “Supremacy” at Work, Don’t go to a Trump Rally, Observe the Democrats’ Approach to Climate Change." "Rotten History" follows the interview.Check out Anthony's piece here: https://www.blackagendareport.com/if-you-want-see-white-supremacy-work-dont-go-trump-rally-observe-democrats-approach-climate-changeHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Chris Bing on his Reuters investigation, "The Pentagon ran a secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during the pandemic," co-authored with Joel Schectman.Check out Chris and Joel's article here: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covid-propaganda/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Clark Randall, a past guest, and Lucy Randall who co-wrote The Nation article, "How Israel Bonds Put the Cost of the War in Gaza on US States and Municipalities: After October 7, Palm Beach County, Florida, bought $660 million in Israel bonds. A new lawsuit argues that it’s a bad deal for taxpayers."Clark is an independent journalist and PhD student at Brown University. His work considers questions of race, class, and finance in the US and internationally.Lucy is a freelance journalist and an immigration lawyer representing asylum seekers in New York City.Clark was on last August to talk about his Boston Review article, "Bond Villains: How a little-understood feature of urban finance—municipal bonds—fuels racial inequality.""The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.Check out their article here: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/israel-bonds-palm-beach-lawsuit/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Past guest Stephen Zunes returns to speak with us about his recent Truthout writing including, "Biden Continues to Provide Israel Billions for War Crimes," "Biden’s Response to Israel’s ICC Prosecution Is an Attack on International Law," and "Don’t Buy the Right-Wing Disinformation Campaign on “From the River to the Sea.” Stephen is a professor of Politics at the University of San Francisco, who is currently the Torgny Segerstedt Visiting Research professor at the Gothenburg University in Sweden. "Rotten History" follows the interview.Check out Stephen's articles here: https://truthout.org/articles/biden-continues-to-provide-israel-billions-for-war-crimes/https://truthout.org/articles/bidens-response-to-israels-icc-prosecution-is-an-attack-on-international-law/https://truthout.org/articles/dont-buy-the-right-wing-disinformation-campaign-on-from-the-river-to-the-sea/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Amanda Abrams on her story at The Intercept, "The Little-Known Reason Counties Keep Building Bigger Jails: Architecture Firms." "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.Check out Amanda's article here: https://theintercept.com/2024/05/31/jail-construction-justice-architecture-firms/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Edward Ongweso Jr and Athena Sofides on their Baffler essay, "The Insulin Empire: How profiteers pushed a lifesaving drug out of reach." "Rotten History" follows the interview.Check out Edward and Athena's article here: https://thebaffler.com/after-the-fact/the-insulin-empire-ongweso-jr-sofidesHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Kavitha Chekuru on her Intercept article, "Gaza's Stolen Healers: Hundreds of Palestinian Doctors Disappeared Into Israeli Detention." Check out Kavitha's article here: https://theintercept.com/2024/05/24/gaza-palestinian-doctors-hospital-detained-missing-disappeared/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Dan Piepenbring on his Baffler article, "K-Pop: Our forefathers did dissociatives." Dan is the New Books columnist for Harper’s and the co-author, with Tom O’Neill, of CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties. He’s currently working on a book about ketamine. "Rotten History" and "The Moment of Truth follow the interview.Check out Dan's article here: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/k-pop-piepenbringHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Dylan Saba and Jake Romm discuss their n+1 article, "Acts Harmful to the Enemy," on international humanitarian law criminalizing revolution. After the interview, we hear new installments of "Rotten History" and "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen.Check out Dylan and Jake's writing here: https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/acts-harmful-to-the-enemy/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Silky Shah joins us to discuss her new book from Haymarket Books, "Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition."Check out Silky's book here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2213-unbuild-wallsHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Silky Shah joins us to discuss her new book from Haymarket Books, "Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition."Check out Silky's book here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2213-unbuild-wallsHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Hadas Thier returns to This Is Hell! to talk about her writing at The Nation on the Columbia protests, "The Student Encampments Aren’t a Danger to Jews. But the Crackdown Is." Hadas is author of, "A People’s Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics." Jeff Dorchen delivers "The Moment of Truth" after the interview.Check out Hadas' article here: https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/campus-encampment-police-crackdown-antisemitism-brutality/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Murtaza Hussein returns to This Is Hell! to discuss his recent Intercept piece, "They Used to Say Arabs Can’t Have Democracy Because It’d Be Bad for Israel. Now the U.S. Can’t Have It Either." "Rotten History" follows the interview.Check out Murtaza's article here: https://theintercept.com/2024/05/08/american-democracy-israel-us-arabs/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Sarah Bouillete and Astrid Lorange join This Is Hell! to discuss what they call, "inexorable rise of the tradwife: the social media influencer who embodies an idealized aesthetic of wifehood" in their recent Verso piece, "From Scratch." After the interview, we check the mailbag.Check out Sarah and Astrid's piece here: https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/from-stratchHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Historian Erik Baker on his Boston Review article, "The Real Scandal of Campus Protest: It’s not that there has been too much student protest. It’s that there has not been much, much more of it." Jeff Dorchen joins us with "The Moment of Truth" after the interview.Check out Erik's piece here: https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-real-scandal-of-campus-protest/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Continuing our coverage of the campus protests for Palestinian freedom, Columbia Journalism Professor Helen Benedict joins us to discuss her Tom Dispatch piece, "The Distortion of Campus Protests over Gaza: How the Right Has Weaponized Antisemitism to Distract from Israel's War." "Rotten History" follows the interview.Check out Helen's piece here: https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-real-scandal-of-campus-protest/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Natasha Lennard on "I’ve Covered Violent Crackdowns on Protests for 15 Years. This Police Overreaction Was Unhinged."Check out Natasha's article here: https://theintercept.com/2024/05/01/nyc-gaza-college-protests-police-outside-agitators/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Correspondent Brian Mier on the Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting article, “‘I Knew They Had Fabricated a False Narrative’: An Interview with Estela Aranha on 'Twitter Files Brazil.'” Estela Aranha is former secretary of digital rights in the Brazilian Justice Ministry. "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview. We also announce this week's best answer to the Question from Hell!Check out Brian's interview with Estala Aranha here: https://fair.org/home/i-knew-they-had-fabricated-a-false-narrative/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
The Anti-Palestinian Racism Research Group's Jess Ghannam, who is co-author of the just-released "Anti-Palestinian Racism Survey Preliminary Report," joins This Is Hell! to discuss anti-Palestinian racism and its effects in the United States. Following the interview, we will hear some fresh "Rotten History" and a listener email.Check out the report here: https://medium.com/@aprresearchgroup/anti-palestinian-racism-survey-preliminary-report-april-2024-11cfed327d85Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Jodi Dean on her Verso column, "Palestine Speaks for Everyone." Following the interview, we hear feedback from listeners like you.Check out Jodi's column here: https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/palestine-speaks-for-everyoneHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Laura Robson on her article at The Baffler Magazine, "Assistance as Containment; A historical take on defunding the UNRWA." Plus a Moment of Truth from Jeffrey Dorchen.Check out Laura's article here: https://thebaffler.com/latest/assistance-as-containment-robsonHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Loretta Napoleoni returns to discuss her new book, “Technocapitalism: The Rise of the New Robber Barons and the Fight for the Common Good.” "Rotten History" follows the interview.Check out Loretta's book here: https://www.sevenstories.com/books/4601-technocapitalismHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Kate Manne returns to talk about her book, “Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia.”Check out Kate's book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/722318/unshrinking-by-kate-manne/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
We wrap up the week with geographer Michelle Buckley and media scholar Paula Chakravartty co-wrote the Boston Review article, "Labor and the Bibi-Modi 'Bromance': The Israel-India worker deal resembles British indenture." "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.Check out Michelle and Paula's article here: https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/labor-and-the-bibi-modi-bromance/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Keri Leigh Merritt returns to discuss her Aeon article, "The southern gap: In the American South, an oligarchy of planters enriched itself through slavery. Pervasive underdevelopment is their legacy." "Rotten History" follows the interview.Check out Keri's article here: https://aeon.co/essays/capitalism-and-underdevelopment-in-the-american-southHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
This Is Hell! returns from Spring Break! Alec Karakatsanis and Hamid Khan join Chuck to discuss consulting and biometrics giant Accenture's quiet takeover of police reform in Los Angeles County, California.Check out Akela Lacy's article on that process: https://theintercept.com/2024/03/12/los-angeles-jail-accenture-measure-j/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society's Cloud Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate on his article, "The Cloud Is Material: On the Environmental Impacts of Computation and Data Storage." "Rotten History" and some correspondence from listeners follow the interview.Check out Steven's article here: https://sts-program.mit.edu/news/mit-serc-case-study-the-cloud-is-material-on-the-environmental-impacts-of-computation-and-data-storage-by-steven-gonzalez-monserrate-mit-hasts-graduate-student/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Lisa Heinzerling on her Boston Review article, “The Judicial War on Government: The Supreme Court’s latest bid to control agencies like the EPA—and Congress itself."Check out Lisa's article here: https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-judicial-war-on-government/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
We wrap up the week with Assaf Kfoury who wrote the Cosmonaut article, "Hamas From Candidate Enforcer to Implacable Foe."Check out Assaf's article here: https://cosmonautmag.com/2024/03/hamas-from-candidate-enforcer-to-implacable-foe/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Gaby Del Valle on The Baffler Magazine article, “Lost at CPAC: The paranoid style in conservative politics.” "Rotten History" follows the interview.Check out Gaby's article here: https://thebaffler.com/latest/lost-at-cpac-del-valleHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Pankaj Mishra discusses his London Review of Books article, "The Shoah After Gaza."Check out Pankaj's article here: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n06/pankaj-mishra/the-shoah-after-gazaHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
We wrap up the week with the return of writer, theorist, and recovering academic Sophie Lewis to talk about her new writing at Salvage Magazine, "Some of my best enemies are feminists: on Zionist feminism." This will be Sophie's fourth appearance on This is Hell! and her interviews have repeatedly been selected by listeners as their favorites of the year each time she has appeared. Following the interview, Jeffrey Dorchen delivers "The Moment of Truth" live from Second Story Studios, aka the center of Hell.Check out Sophie's article here: https://salvage.zone/some-of-my-best-enemies-are-feminists-on-zionist-feminism/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Deborah Brown and Rasha Younes of Human Rights Watch join This Is Hell! to discuss their report, "Meta’s Broken Promises: Systemic Censorship of Palestine Content on Instagram and Facebook." "Rotten History" follows the interview.Check out Deborah and Rasha's report here: https://www.hrw.org/report/2023/12/21/metas-broken-promises/systemic-censorship-palestine-content-instagram-andHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Oded Na'aman joins This Is Hell! to discuss his Boston Review article, "A Menacing Silence: Why is the reality of Palestinian suffering denied in the Israeli consciousness?" After the interview, we hear share some feedback from our dear listeners.Check out Oded's article here: https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-menacing-silence/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
We wrap up the week with lecturer in philosophy at Gonzaga University, Joan Braune who will speak with us about her book, "Understanding and Countering Fascist Movements: From Void to Hope." "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.Check out Joan's book here: https://www.routledge.com/Understanding-and-Countering-Fascist-Movements-From-Void-to-Hope/Braune/p/book/9780367696986Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Garrison Lovely on his Jacobin article, "Can Humanity Survive AI?: With the development of artificial intelligence racing forward at warp speed, some of the richest men in the world may be deciding the fate of humanity right now."Check out Garrison's article here: https://jacobin.com/2024/01/can-humanity-survive-aiHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Historian Kristen du Mez on her bestselling cultural history, "Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation."Check out Kristin's book here: https://wwnorton.com/books/9781631499050Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Hamza Ali Shah discusses his Jacobin article, “Western Governments Share Responsibility for Israel’s Crimes," and his Declassified UK writing, "‘Beheaded Babies' – How UK media Reported Israel’s Fake News as Fact." "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview. Check out Hamza's Jacobin article here: https://jacobin.com/2024/02/western-governments-israel-war-crimesand his Declassified UK piece here: https://www.declassifieduk.org/beheaded-babies-how-uk-media-reported-israels-fake-news-as-fact/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Wendy Pearlman discusses her New Lines Magazine article, "The Erasure of Palestinian Society." Seb's final (at least for a while, we hope) "The Past Inside the Present" follows the interview.Check out Wendy's article here: https://newlinesmag.com/argument/the-erasure-of-palestinian-society/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Indian American Muslim Council's Safa Ahmed on her Jacobin Magazine article, "The US Hindu Right Is Still Whitewashing the Gujarat Pogrom." "Rotten History" follows the interview.Check out Safa's article here: https://jacobin.com/2024/03/hindutva-us-right-gujarat-pogrom-modiHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
The American Prospect's Rick Perlstein on Israel's neglected history of revisionism, and a belated obit for Henry Kissinger.Also, we're announcing the winner of this week's Question from Hell!, a QFH! suggested by Rick.Check out Rick's article here: https://prospect.org/world/2024-02-21-neglected-history-state-of-israel/and here: https://prospect.org/politics/2024-02-28-kissinger-revisited/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Harper's Andrew Cockburn returns to This Is Hell! to talk about his March cover story, "The Pentagon’s Silicon Valley Problem: How Big Tech is losing the wars of the future." "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.Check out Andrew's article here: https://harpers.org/archive/2024/03/the-pentagons-silicon-valley-problem-andrew-cockburn/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Sociologist Amy Cooter joins This Is Hell! to discuss her new book from Routledge, "Nostalgia, Nationalism, and the US Militia Movement." After the interview, we announce this week's best answer to the Question from Hell!Check out Amy's book here: https://www.routledge.com/Nostalgia-Nationalism-and-the-US-Militia-Movement/Cooter/p/book/9781032421971Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Emine Fidan Elcioglu on her Social Problems journal article, “Armed Citizens on the Border: How Guns Fuel Anti-Immigration Politics in America." "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.Check out Emine's article here: https://academic.oup.com/socpro/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/socpro/spad034/7222583Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Cory Doctorow on his Financial Times article, "‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything: The term describes the slow decay of online platforms such as Facebook. But what if we’ve entered the ‘enshittocene’?" "Rotten History" follows the interview.Check out Cory's article here: https://www.ft.com/content/6fb1602d-a08b-4a8c-bac0-047b7d64aba5Cory also has a new novel, "The Bezzle." https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865878/thebezzleHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Joining This Is Hell! today are Jacob Kang-Brown and James Gilgore to discuss the uses, abuses, and inequities of the use of wearable electronic monitoring devices in the US criminal legal system. Jacob co-authored the Vera Institute report, "People on Electronic Monitoring," with Jessica Zhang and Ari Kotler. James co-wrote the book, "Understanding E-Carcertation: Electronic Monitoring, the Surveillance State, and the Future of Mass Incarceration," published by The New Press. A new "The Past Inside the Present" follows the interview.Check out Jacob's report here: https://www.vera.org/publications/people-on-electronic-monitoringCheck out James' book here: https://thenewpress.com/books/understanding-e-carcerationHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Returning to This is Hell!, Jake Johnston is author of the new book, "Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti." Jake is a Senior Research Associate at the Center for Economic and Policy Research. "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.Check out Jake's book here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250284679/aidstateHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Dr. Jasmine L. Harris joins This Is Hell! to discuss her new book from Broadleaf Books, "Black Women, Ivory Tower: Revealing the Lies of White Supremacy in American Education." "Rotten History" follows the interview, as do your first batch of responses to this week's Question from Hell!Check out Dr. Harris's book here: https://www.broadleafbooks.com/store/product/9781506489834/Black-Women-Ivory-TowerHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Bruce E. Levine on his CounterPunch article, "Scientific Misconduct and Fraud: The Final Nail in Psychiatry’s Antidepressant Coffin." Also, Jeff Dorchen and the 'Moment of Truth.'Check out Bruce's article here: https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/01/17/scientific-misconduct-and-fraud-the-final-nail-in-psychiatrys-antidepressant-coffin/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Our guest is Rachel Ida Buff who posted the Boston Review article, “The Right Comes for Milwaukee: Why did the blue city agree to host the Republican National Convention—and to suspend a hard-won police reform for its duration?”Also, 'This Week in Rotten History.'Check out Rachel's article here: https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-right-comes-for-milwaukee/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Institute for Policy Studies' John Cavanagh on their report on El Salvador, "State of Deception: A fact-finding report on El Salvador’s detained water defenders, the potential return of environmentally destructive mining, and the state of human rights under the Bukele administration."Also, Seb Wupper and the Past Inside the Present.Check out John and his co-authors' report here: https://ips-dc.org/report-state-of-deception-human-rights-under-bukele/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Our final guest of the week is Dr. Maha Hilal, who wrote the TomDispatch piece, "Israel, the United States, and the Rhetoric of the War on Terror: From September 11, 2001, to October 7, 2023 (and Beyond)." Maha is founding Executive Director of the Muslim Counterpublics Lab and author of, "Innocent Until Proven Muslim: Islamophobia, the War on Terror, and the Muslim Experience Since 9/11."A new The Past Inside the Present with Sebastian Wuepper follows the interview.Check out Maha's article here: https://tomdispatch.com/israel-the-united-states-and-the-rhetoric-of-the-war-on-terror/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Séamus Malekafzali joins This Is Hell! talk to us about his Baffler article, "More Fog, More War: The brutal illogic of the U.S. attacks on Yemen." The Moment of Truth with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.Check out Séamus' article here: https://thebaffler.com/latest/more-fog-more-war-malekafzaliHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Researcher Cat Bohannon joins This Is Hell! to discuss her new book from Knopf, "Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution." Rotten History follows the interview.Check out Cat's book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/227568/eve-by-cat-bohannon/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Jack Norton and Judah Schept join This Is Hell! to discuss their forthcoming volume, co-authored with Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, "The Jail Is Everywhere: Fighting the New Geography of Mass Incarceration" available February 14th from Verso. After the interview, Sebastian Wuepper returns with an all-new The Past Inside the Present.Check out their book here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3039-the-jail-is-everywhereHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Joining us today in Hell are Heidi Matthews and Tanya Serisier, who co-wrote the CounterPunch article, "Bombing Gaza Isn’t Fighting Sexual Violence." A Moment of Truth with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.Check out their article here: https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/01/16/bombing-gaza-isnt-fighting-sexual-violence/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Ajay Singh Chaudhary returns to This Is Hell! to talk about his Baffler Magazine article, "Sick and Tired: Against Resilience," an excerpt from, "The Exhausted of the Earth: Politics in a Burning World" (Repeater Books). An all-new Rotten History follows the interview.Check out the article here: https://thebaffler.com/latest/sick-and-tired-chaudharyAnd the forthcoming book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/736324/the-exhausted-of-the-earth-by-ajay-singh-chaudhary/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Christopher Hood, author of the award-winning script and film, “Killing Detroit: The City That Refused To Die,” that is now in book form. A new Moment of Truth from Jeff Dorchen follows the interview. Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
ProPublica editor-at-large Eric Umansky joins This Is Hell! to discuss his recent ProPublica article, "How Police Have Undermined the Promise of Body Cameras." A new Rotten History follows the interview.Check out Eric's piece here: https://www.propublica.org/article/how-police-undermined-promise-body-camerasHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
On MLK Day 2024, we share a 2008 talk with Black Panther Larry Pinkney and his hot and very critical take on Barack Obama shortly after Obama was elected president and before he was inaugurated.Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
This Is Hell! returns with new interviews this week! Kicking off 2024, geographer Jeff Wilson joins us to discuss his new graphic novel he co-created with Bambi Kramer, "We Live Here: Detroit Eviction Defense and the Battle for Housing Justice" from Seven Stories Press. Following the interview, Jeff Dorchen returns with a new Moment of Truth in which he tries to gain perspective on the human condition with a cheap sci-fi thought experiment.Check out Jeff and Bambi's graphic novel here: https://www.sevenstories.com/books/4468-we-live-hereYou can find out more about Detroit Eviction Defense here: https://www.detroitevictiondefense.netHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
The Best of 2023 concludes with listener-favorite historian Gerald Horne, on his new book “Revolting Capital: Racism & Radicalism in Washington, D.C., 1900-2000” (International Publishers).Check out Gerald's book here: https://www.intpubnyc.com/browse/revolting-capital-racism-radicalism-in-washington-d-c-1900-2000/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
The penultimate Best of 2023 episode features a September interview with Truthout's Kelly Hayes on the article she co-wrote the Boston Review essay with past guest Mariame Kaba, “How Much Discomfort Is the Whole World Worth?: Movement building requires a culture of listening—not mastery of the right language.” Following the interview, Jeff Dorchen delivers a Moment of Truth and we read more of your answers to the Question from Hell!Check out Kelly and Mariame's essay here: https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/how-much-discomfort-is-the-whole-world-worth/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
The Best of 2023 continues with our April interview with Malcolm Harris on his Little, Brown and Company book, "Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World." After the interview, we read your first answers to 2024's first Question from Hell and the Worst of Rotten History from Renaldo Migaldi.Check out Malcolm's book here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/malcolm-harris/palo-alto/9780316592031/?lens=little-brownHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
The Best of 2023 continues with writer, professor and musician Sheila Liming on her recently published book, "Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time." Check out Sheila's book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717263/hanging-out-by-sheila-liming/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
The best of 2023 continues with Miliaku Nwabueze on her May 5 Scalawag essay, "How to Build the End of the World: In Defense of the Chaotic Protester."Check out Miliaku's article here: https://scalawagmagazine.org/2023/05/black-radical-tradition-cop-city/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
The Best of 2023 continues with our April 10th interview with Rasha Al Aqeedi about her New Lines Magazine article, "Living — and Reliving — the US Invasion of Iraq."Check out Rasha's article here: https://newlinesmag.com/first-person/living-and-reliving-the-us-invasion-of-iraq/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
The Best of 2023 continues! M.E. O’Brien joins us in Hell to discuss her new book "Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care" published by Pluto Press.Check out M.E.'s book here: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745343846/family-abolition/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Continuing the Best of 2023 series, distinguished anthropologist Alex Hinton joins Chuck to discuss his Sapiens article, "Two Myths Fueling the Conservative Right's Dangerous Transphobia." The discussion includes Alex's insights from the most recent CPAC. This interview originally aired on June 21st. After the interview, we have both a new Rotten History and a new Moment of Truth.Alex is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University, Director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, and UNESCO Chair on Genocide Prevention.Check out Alex's article here: https://www.sapiens.org/culture/transphobia-myths/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
The Best of 2023 continues with Matt Kennard and Claire Provost on their Bloomsbury book, "Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy." This interview originally aired on May 16th.Check out "Silent Coup" here: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/silent-coup-9781350269989/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell
The Best of 2023 continues with historian Jo Guldi on her Boston Review article, "The Earth for Man," on land redistribution which is adapted from her Yale University Press book, "The Long Land War: The Global Struggle for Occupancy Rights." Following the interview, we read the rest of your answers to the Question from Hell and select our favorite of the week and Sebastian Wuepper delivers another timely Past Inside the Present.Check out Jo's article here: https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-earth-for-man/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell
The Best of 2023 continues with our October interview with Alan Guebert who had just posted the The Baffler Magazine article, “Farmed Out: American agriculture is about business, not food.”Plus, a Moment of Truth with Jeffrey Dorchen and your answers to the week's Question from Hell!Check out Alan's article here: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/farmed-out-guebertHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Jewish Currents editor-in-chief Arielle Angel joins This Is Hell! to discuss her essay on the Palestinian liberation, "'We Cannot Cross Until We Carry Each Other.'" After the interview, the we read the first batch of your answers to the Question from Hell, followed by Rotten History.Check out Arielle's article here: https://jewishcurrents.org/we-cannot-cross-until-we-carry-each-otherHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Our Best of 2023 series continues with Stefania Maurizi, an investigative journalist currently contributing to the major Italian daily Il Fatto Quotidiano after working for the last 14 years for la Repubblica, consistently rated among the top two Italian newspapers, and for the italian newsmagezine l’Espresso. She has worked with Julian Assange and his organization WikiLeaks since 2009, teaming up with large teams of international media to cover and investigate all of WikiLeaks' secret documents.Stefania speaks with host Chuck Mertz about her book "Secret Power: WikiLeaks and Its Enemies" recently published by Pluto Press: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745347615/secret-power/After the interview, more of your answers to the Question from Hell and a Moment of Truth from Jeff Dorchen.Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Today's episode features our second-most played interview of 2023, according to SoundCloud's data. Reporter, public records requester, researcher Julia Rock joins us to discuss her article at The Lever, "How Big Pharma Actually Spends Its Massive Profits: New research shows that pharmaceutical companies have spent more on enriching shareholders than drug research and development over the past decade." After the interview, we read more of your answers to this week's Question from Hell and an all-new installment of Rotten History from Renaldo Migaldi.Check out Julia's article here: https://www.levernews.com/how-big-pharma-actually-spends-its-massive-profits/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Back by popular demand in our Best of 2023 series: Journalist Christopher Ketcham who co-wrote The Intercept piece, "The Shutdown of “Luxury Emissions” Should Be at the Center of Climate Revolt." After that, Sebastian Wuepper returns with a new The Past Inside the Present.Check out Christopher's article here: https://theintercept.com/2022/12/13/climate-protest-private-jets-schiphol-airport/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Brian Mier returns to This Is Hell! to discuss his recent publication, "Anticorruption and Imperialist Blind Spots: The Role of the United States in Brazil’s Long Coup," in Latin American Perspectives. This is the first peer-reviewed study confirming that the United States played a crucial role in Brazil's long coup, which threw the left out of power in 2016 and brought about far-right rule in 2018 under the guise of anti-corruption. After that, the rest of your answers to the Question from Hell, including the week's winner, and another Moment of Truth from Jeff Dorchen.Check out Brian's article here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0094582X231213614Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Olivia Riggio on her Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting article, “Blaming Mass Shootings on Mental Illness Doesn’t Address Either Issue: Rationalizing the horrors of a mass shooting by emphasizing the perpetrator’s mental state does little to address the larger issue,” followed by Rotten History.Check out Olivia's article here: https://fair.org/home/blaming-mass-shootings-on-mental-illness-doesnt-address-either-issue/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Christopher Ketcham on his Harper's Magazine article, "The Machine Breaker: Inside the mind of an ‘ecoterrorist’." Then a Past Inside the Present with Sebastian Wuepper.Check out Christopher's article here: https://harpers.org/archive/2023/11/the-machine-breaker/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Kay Gabriel on her n+1 magazine article, "The Anti-Trans Panic and the Crusade Against Teachers: The goal is to crumble popular support for public education." Plus, a Moment of Truth from Jeff Dorchen and Rotten History from Renaldo Migaldi.Check out Kay's article here: https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-anti-trans-panic-and-the-crusade-against-teachers/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Susan Neiman on her The New York Review of Books essay, "Germany on Edge: In recent weeks, Germany’s reflexive defenses of Israel and suppression of its critics have assumed a fevered pitch." Then another installment of The Past Inside the Present with Sebastian Wuepper.Check out Susan's article here: https://www.nybooks.com/online/2023/11/03/germany-on-edge-israel-palestine/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Pooja Bhatia Agarwal joins This Is Hell! to discuss her recent Baffler article, "Deadly Strain: How the UN sought to deny its role in Haiti’s cholera epidemic." Plus, another dose of Rotten History from Renaldo Migaldi.Check out Pooja's article here: https://thebaffler.com/outbursts/deadly-strain-bhatiaHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
The Intercept's Nick Turse joins This Is Hell! to discuss his just-published report, "Civilian Harm Secret Pentagon Investigation Found No One at Fault in Drone Strike That Killed Woman and 4-Year-Old." In the undeclared drone war, nobody is accountable.Check out Nick's report here: https://theintercept.com/2023/11/12/somalia-drone-strike-civilian-deaths/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Saree Makdisi returns to discuss his n+1 article, "No Human Being Can Exist: How can a person make up for seven decades of misrepresentation and willful distortion in the time allotted to a sound bite?”Then, Sebastian Wuepper returns with a new The Past Inside the Present.Check out Saree's article: https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/no-human-being-can-exist/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Bloomberg's Faye Flam on her Noema Magazine article, “The 'Man the Hunter' Myth Won't Go Away: Persistent myths about strictly defined social roles for humans in the past only limit what it means to be part of society today.”Also, a 'Moment of Truth' from Jeffrey Dorchen.Check out Faye's article here: https://www.noemamag.com/the-man-the-hunter-myth-wont-go-away/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Shane Burley on his writing at Waging Nonviolence on white nationalists manipulating the Gaza crisis. Plus 'Rotten History.'Check out Shane's article, "How the far right is trying to manipulate the crisis in Gaza": https://wagingnonviolence.org/2023/11/far-right-try-manipulate-gaza-crisis/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
Chuck interviews Truthout's Kelly Hayes on the article she co-wrote the Boston Review essay with past guest Mariame Kaba, “How Much Discomfort Is the Whole World Worth?: Movement building requires a culture of listening—not mastery of the right language.”
Jeff returns with a Moment of Truth in which he travels back 39 years to revisit his visit to Morocco.
Chuck interviews Garrison Lovely on his article at The Nation Magazine, "Confessions of a McKinsey Whistleblower: Inside the soul-crushing, morally bankrupt, top-secret world of our most powerful consulting firm." Check out the article here: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/mckinsey-whistleblower-confessions/
Today's episode also features a new installment of Rotten History by Renaldo Migaldi.
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Cherise Morris on the Truthout article, "To Build an Abolitionist Future, We Must Look to Indigenous Pasts: Worlds without police and without prisons have already existed, predating colonization and slavery."
Seb starts a series of exploring the Century of Humiliation, which is what the Chinese sometimes call the nineteenth century. Learn about the Opium Wars.
Amanda Moore on her article at The Nation, “Undercover with the New Alt-Right: For 11 months, I pretended to be a far-right extremist. I discovered a radical youth movement trying to infiltrate the Republican Party.”And Jeff Dorchen flies the dogwhistling skies.
Professor of communications and director of gender studies at the University of Arkansas Lisa M. Corrigan joins Chuck to discuss the neoliberal dismantling of the University of West Virginia--a harbinger of a return to a tuition-based, legacy-first, exclusive educational order for all of American higher education. Check out her article, "The Evisceration of a Public University," in The Nation: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/wvu-cuts-higher-education/
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Hugh Ryan on his Boston Review article, "Who’s Afraid of Social Contagion?: Our ideas about sexuality and gender have changed before, and now they’re changing again."
Jeff Dorchen shares another Moment of Truth.
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Matthew King on his New Republic article, “Big Tech’s Waste ‘Solutions’ Are a Scam." https://newrepublic.com/article/173780/big-techs-waste-solutions-scam
Also, 'This Week in Rotten History.'
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Clark Randall on his Boston Review article, "Bond Villains: How a little-understood feature of urban finance—municipal bonds—fuels racial inequality."
Sebastian looks at how the United States ended up with a drinking age most other countries laugh at - and what that means for Americans.
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The Baffler's George Scialabba on his latest article, "Kudzu: The kingdom of private equity."
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Geographer Katie J. Wells joins Chuck to discuss Uber's takeover of urban transportation. Wells is the author of Disrupting D.C.: The Rise of Uber and the Fall of the City with Kafui Attoh and Declan Cullen from Princeton University Press.
Sebastian Wuepper returns with another Past Inside The Present. In this segment, Sebastian historicizes the ongoing catastrophe in Hawai'i. If you can, please consider donating to victims of the wildfires, many of whom lost everything. Here are some ways you can help:
https://www.instagram.com/lahaina_ohana_venmo/ https://www.hawaiicommunityfoundation.org/strengthening/maui-strong-fund https://www.hawaiiancouncil.org/ https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lExatubPl6zvsDcy4qUd3Sv1PvvKrzMhUyOzaKuId0o/htmlview#gid=194434303 https://secure.actblue.com/donate/kokuamaui https://mauifoodbank.org/donate/
Chucks describes his recent family vacation.
Raina Lipsitz discuses her Verso Books title, "The Rise of a New Left: How Young Radicals Are Shaping the Future of American Politics."
Rotten History of the 1953 coup d’état in Iran.
We return to Hell today with Gerald Horne, on his new book “Revolting Capital: Racism & Radicalism in Washington, D.C., 1900-2000” (International Publishers, 2023).
Chuck interviews historian Gerald Horne on his 2022 book from International Publishers, The Counter-Revolution of 1836: Texas Slavery, Jim Crow, and the Roots of U.S. Fascism.
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Historian Gerald Horne on the intertwined histories of boxing and Black men under the long reach of slavery, White supremacy and capitalist exploitation in the American 20th century, and his book The Bittersweet Science: Racism, Racketeering and the Political Economy of Boxing from International Publishers.
Historian Gerald Horne explores the terrains of race, religion, capital and slavery across the 16th century trans-Atlantic world - as European powers pillaged Africa and the Americas of both people and resources, their destruction created the enduring formations of life in the 21st century - White supremacy and rapacious capitalism.
Gerald is author of the book The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century from Monthly Review Press.
Historian Gerald Horne explores the intersection of White supremacy, Cold War politics and global liberation movements in southern Africa - as the struggle against colonialism and apartheid oriented itself within the larger conflict between capitalist and socialist states, the ANC and solidarity movements won major (but compromised and incomplete) victories against regimes of racial and economic exploitation.
Gerald is author of White Supremacy Confronted: U.S. Imperialism and Anti-Communism vs. the Liberation of Southern Africa from Rhodes to Mandela from International Publishers.
While Chuck is away for the next two weeks in Northern Michigan on the annual family vacation, producer Will Ippen is holding down the fort. This episode features the first of six This is Hell! interviews with prolific historian and listener favorite Gerald Horne. This interview features a discussion of the roots of white supremacy in 17th century settler colonialism in North America as revealed in Horne's 2018 book The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean.
Gerald Horne is the John J. and Rebecca Moores Chair of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston. He is the author of more than thirty books and one hundred scholarly articles and reviews that document the history of racism as it intersects with labor, civil rights, politics, international relations, and war.
Ben Makuch discusses his recent Intercept report titled " Russian Militia Has Links to American Neo-Nazi and Anti-Trans Figures: The leader of the anti-Putin Russian Volunteer Corps is publicly connected to Robert Rundo and Christopher Pohlhaus."
After the interview, a Question from Hell! winner is revealed and Jeff Dorchen remembers when we tried civilization in his latest Moment of Truth.
Center for Economic and Policy Research's Jake Johnston on his opinion piece at The New York Times, “The U.S. Still Can Do What’s Right for Haiti.”
Center for Economic and Policy Research's Jake Johnston on his opinion piece at The New York Times, “The U.S. Still Can Do What’s Right for Haiti.”
Writer, theorist, and recovering academic Sophie Lewis returns to Hell to discuss her Baffler article, “The Good Enough Momfluencer: Disavowing maternal fantasies is easier said than done.”
The article is a review of the book, “Momfluenced: Inside the Maddening, Picture-Perfect World of Mommy Influencer Culture,” by Sara Peterson. Peterson’s website says she writes about feminism, domesticity, and motherhood. Peterson also writes a newsletter about the myth of the ideal mother, ‘In Pursuit of Clean Countertops.’
Read Sophie’s article: https://thebaffler.com/latest/the-good-enough-momfluencer-lewis
This is Sophie’s third appearance on This is Hell! She was on the show most recently in October of last year, 2022, to discuss her book, “Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation.” You may also remember Sophie being on the show back in July 2019 to talk about her book, “Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family.” Not only were both those interviews selected by listeners as among the best of each year – and replayed during our end of year ‘Best of’ special broadcasts – but you can find both conversations by going to thisishell.com and searching on ‘Lewis,’ and, as always, they are free.
Sophie is currently hard at work on a book for Haymarket on enemy feminisms. Sophie’s lectures are archived at lasophielle.org. Follow Sophie on Twitter at (at)reproutopia and support her work at patreon.com/reproutopia
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Today's episode features an interview with This Is Hell! regular Brian Mier. Brian updates Chuck on what the US corporate media has been getting wrong about Brazil. We also have the second of a two-part Moment of Truth from Jeff Dorchen.
Brian Mier is a Chicagoan who immigrated to Brazil in the 1990s. He is a sociologist and geographer. He is also Brazil Correspondent for TeleSur English, co-host of Globalistas on TV 247, Brasilwire, FAIR, COHA, Truthdig, Geopolitical Economy Report, Carta Capital, Outras Palavras.
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Michael Gould-Wartofsky on his TomDispatch article, "American Inquisition: Field Notes from the Frontlines of the Government's War on the Left," which also appeared at Salon.
Michael Gould-Wartofsky is a writer, ethnographer, and human-rights activist from New York City and a postdoctoral research fellow at Columbia University. He is the author of The Occupiers and American Inquisitions (forthcoming in 2025), and has written for the Washington Post, the Daily Beast, Tom Dispatch, Gizmodo, Jacobin, Mother Jones, The Nation, and Newsweek. You can read more of his work at mgouldwartofsky.com.
Also included: Rotten History about the Port of Chicago disaster.
M.E. O’Brien joins us in Hell to discuss her new book "Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care" published by Pluto Press.
M.E. co-edits two magazines, Pinko, on gay communism, and Parapraxis, on psychoanalytic theory and politics. Her work on family abolition has been translated into Chinese, German, Greek, French, Spanish, and Turkish. Her writing has been published by Work, Employment and Society, Social Movement Studies, Endnotes, Homintern, Commune, and Invert. Previously, she coordinated the New York City Trans Oral History Project, and worked in HIV and AIDS activism and services. She completed a PhD at NYU, where she wrote on how capitalism shaped New York City LGBTQ social movements. Find her on twitter (at)genderhorizon and at her website https://genderhorizon.com/
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Today's interview features Umar Farooq, author of the article, "‘The fight for our lives’: Arizona’s water regime limits the Hopi Tribe’s future" published in High Country News in collaboration with ProPublica. Umar Farooq is Umar Farooq is an Ancil Payne Fellow with ProPublica.
Check out the article here: https://www.hcn.org/issues/55.7/indigenous-affairs-water-the-fight-for-our-lives-arizona-water-regime-limits-the-hopi-tribes-future
See more ProPublica reporting on indigenous Americans' fight for the promised resource of water here: https://www.propublica.org/series/waiting-for-water
Maya Schenwar returns to discuss her Truthout article, “Right-Wingers Push Death Penalty Reinstatement Bills as Part of Hardline Agenda: The same forces that are attacking abortion, trans health care and racial justice are also pushing for more executions."
Maya Schenwar is a writer, editor, journalist and organizer who has spent the last 20 years working tosculpt new ways for journalism to serve the public good and fuel social transformation. She spent 13 years as Editor-in-Chief of Truthout, an independent social justice news publication, and is currently the organization’s Editor-at-Large and Board President. Recently, Maya founded the Truthout Center for Grassroots Journalism. She is the co-author (with Victoria Law) of Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms (The New Press, July 2020), and the author of Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn’t Work and How We Can Do Better (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2014). Both books challenge the ingrained logic of prison and policing that holds our society captive, and share the work of bold and creative efforts to uproot the prison-industrial complex. Maya is also the co-editor (with Joe Macaré and Alana Yu-Lan Price) of Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? Police Violence and Resistance in the United States, an anthology focused on the entrenched racism and violence of policing and the fight to dismantle that institution. She authored a chapter in The Long Term: Resisting Life Sentences, Working Toward Freedom, and co-authored a chapter in the anthology Welcome to the Revolution: Universalizing Resistance for Social Justice and Democracy in Perilous Times, with Alana Yu-Lan Price.
More info at https://www.mayaschenwar.com/.
Also, an episode of "Rotten History."
We return to Hell today with Gerald Horne, on his new book “Revolting Capital: Racism & Radicalism in Washington, D.C., 1900-2000” (International Publishers).
Sebastian Wüpper also returns with a 'Past Inside the Present.’
Find Gerald's book here (and as a raffle prize at our listener appreciation party): https://www.intpubnyc.com/.../revolting-capital-racism.../
Dr. Horne holds the Moores Professorship of History and African American Studies. His research has addressed issues of racism in a variety of relations involving labor, politics, civil rights, international relations and war. He has also written extensively about the film industry. Dr. Horne received his Ph.D. in history from Columbia University and his J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and his B.A. from Princeton University.
Today's dive into the archives features a July 4, 2009 interview with political scientist Chalmers Johnson about the state of American Empire. Sadly, not much has changed.
Chalmers Ashby Johnson (August 6, 1931 – November 20, 2010 was an American political scientist specializing in comparative politics, and professor emeritus of the University of California, San Diego. He served in the Korean War, was a consultant for the CIA from 1967 to 1973 and chaired the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of California, Berkeley from 1967 to 1972. He was also president and co-founder with Steven Clemons of the Japan Policy Research Institute (now based at the University of San Francisco), an organization that promotes public education about Japan and Asia.
Saskia Sassen is professor of sociology and member of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. Saskia's most recent book is 2007's "A Sociology of Globalization" (WW Norton). She wrote this week's openDemocracy piece, "The new executive politics: a democratic challenge". Before that, she wrote April's openDemocracy article, "Too big to save: the end of financial capitalism."
Rick Shenkman is the author of "Just How Stupid Are We? Facing the Truth about the American Voter" (Basic Books), the second chapter of which was excerpted at TomDispatch.com as the article, "How Ignorant Are We?: The Voters Choose… but on the Basis of What?." Rick is an Emmy Award-winning investigative reporter, New York Times bestselling author, and associate professor of history at George Mason university is also the founder and editor of History News Network, a website that features articles by historians on current events. He also blogs at "How Stupid?"
Jeremy Leaming talked with us about his article, "Christian Reconstructionists Are Trying to Take Dominion in America -- and They Have Powerful Friends." Jeremy is a communications associate for Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
You can learn more about the organization here: http://www.au.org/
Chuck is off for the next couple of weeks, you will be stuck with producer Will for the next couple of weeks. This episode features an interview from July 7, 2007 with S. Derek Turner when he discussed what his group, Free Press, has done with the Center for American Progress. Their study, "The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio," shows how the right wing's grip on the airwaves is because of a failed market, not a cultural revolution.
You can find the report here: https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-structural-imbalance-of-political-talk-radio/
Today on This is Hell! Chuck interviews Dave Denison about his Baffler article “The Shame of the Suburbs”
Dave Denison is a senior editor of The Baffler. He has written and edited for The Texas Observer, CommonWealth magazine, and The American Prospect. A selected archive of his writing is warehoused at www.davedenison.net. A transplanted Midwesterner, he lives near Boston and claims to be an amateur carpenter, an aspiring mason, and an above-average bowler.
Read Dave’s article on Baffler at https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-shame-of-the-suburbs-denison
Distinguished anthropologist Alex Hinton joins Chuck to discuss his Sapiens article, "Two Myths Fueling the Conservative Right's Dangerous Transphobia." You can find the article here: https://www.sapiens.org/culture/transphobia-myths/
Alex is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University, Director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, and UNESCO Chair on Genocide Prevention.
Miliaku Nwabueze talks with Chuck about her Scaliwag essay, "How to Build the End of the World: In Defense of the Chaotic Protester."
Micah Herskind discusses his Scalawag article, "This is the Atlanta Way: A Primer on Cop City," and his MSNBC post, “If those supporting ‘Cop City’ prevail in Atlanta, your city could be next.”
Micah Herskind is an Atlanta-based organizer and writer. Find more of his writing on his website, micahherskind.com and follow him on Twitter at: micahinATL
Read Micah’s article here: https://scalawagmagazine.org/2023/05/cop-city-atlanta-history-timeline/
StopCopCity
Historian Jo Guldi joins us to discuss her Boston Review article, "The Earth for Man: Redistributing land was once central to global development efforts---and it should be today." This article is adapted from her 2022 book from Yale University Press, "The Long Land War: The Global Struggle for Occupancy Rights." You can find the article here: https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-earth-for-man/ And the book here: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300256680/the-long-land-war/
Jeff Dorchen delivers the first installment of a two-part "Moment of Truth." This week's Question from Hell! winner is announced. The competition this week was fierce.
McMansion Hell's Kate Wagner returns to discuss her new Baffler article, “Bad Manors: The McMansion as harbinger of the American apocalypse.”
McMansion Hell's Kate Wagner returns to discuss her new Baffler article, “Bad Manors: The McMansion as harbinger of the American apocalypse.”
Matt Mazewski joins This is Hell! to discuss his new article, "The Pandemic Isn't Over."
Matt Mazewski is a contributing writer and book critic at Commonweal, where he writes on economics and public policy. He is a former research analyst in the research and statistics group at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Matt teaches courses on economics and labor studies for high school students at Columbia University's pre-college programs, as well as being an economics tutor. He's an independent researcher working on several projects related to labor economics, including the measurement of union membership over time at a fine geographic level, the impacts of collective bargaining on retirement outcomes, and the dynamics of monopsony power in labor markets.
Read Matt’s article "The Pandemic Isn’t Over" at commonwealmagazine.org
Writer, speaker, and ecofeminist Jennifer Lunden joins This is Hell! to discuss her new book "American Breakdown, Our Ailing Nation, My Body's Revolt, and the Nineteenth-Century Woman Who Brought Me Back to Life," out now from Harper Collins: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/american-breakdown-jennifer-lunden
You can learn more about Lunden and her work at her website: https://jenniferlunden.com/
Jeff Dorchen is back with another "Moment of Truth," in which he cleans up after the dogman.
American journalist Nick Turse joins This is Hell to discuss his recent Intercept piece, "Kissinger's Killing Fields." Interviews with more than 75 witnesses and survivors of U.S. military attacks and an exclusive archive of documents show that Henry Kissinger is responsible for even more civilian deaths in Cambodia than was previously known.You can find the article here: https://theintercept.com/series/henry-kissinger-killing-fields/
American journalist Nick Terse joins This is Hell to discuss his recent Intercept piece, "Kissinger's Killing Fields." Interviews with more than 75 witnesses and survivors of U.S. military attacks and an exclusive archive of documents show that Henry Kissinger is responsible for even more civilian deaths in Cambodia than was previously known.You can find the article here: https://theintercept.com/series/henry-kissinger-killing-fields/
Economic historian Trevor Jackson joins This is Hell! to discuss two recent pieces: "Overproduction and Its Discontents: Capitalism's inherent predilection for excess" in Baffler Magazine and "The Price of Crypto: Despite its boosters' frequent references to democracy and freedom, cryptocurrency reflects a radical marketization of politics in which major players can rewrite the rules as needed" in the New York Review of Books. You can find the Baffler article here: https://thebaffler.com/latest/overproduction-and-its-discontents-jackson You can find the New York Review of Books article here: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/06/08/the-price-of-crypto-the-cryptopians-laura-shin/
Lindsay Koshgarian and Ashik Siddique, co-authors of the National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies report, “The Warfare State: How Funding for Militarism Compromises Our Welfare. You can check out there report here: https://www.nationalpriorities.org/analysis/2023/warfare-state-how-funding-militarism-compromises-our-welfare/LIndsay Koshgarian is Lindsay's work and commentary on the federal budget and military spending has appeared on NPR, the BBC, CNN, The Nation, U.S. News and World Report, and others. At NPP, her work is at the intersection of military and domestic federal spending.Ashik Siddique is a research analyst for the National Priorities Project, working on analysis of the federal budget and military spending. After the interview, Jeff fills us in on the codplast boom. Finally, Chuck and Will's favorite answer to this week's Question from Hell is revealed!
Writer and editor Benjamin Schwarz and international affairs scholar Christopher Layne join Chuck to discuss their recent Harper's article, "Why are We in Ukraine? On the dangers of American hubris." You can find their article here: https://harpers.org/archive/2023/06/why-are-we-in-ukraine/Benjamin Schwarz was formerly the national and literary editor of The Atlantic and the executive editor of World Policy Journal.Christopher Layne is the University Distinguished Professor of International Affairs and the Robert M. Gates Chair in National Security at Texas A&M University.
Historian Madga Teter joins This is Hell! to discuss her new book, "Christian Supremacy: Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism" now available from Princeton University Press: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691242583/christian-supremacy . The work offers "a panoramic cultural and legal history that traces the roots of antisemitism and racism to early Christian theology."Jeff Dorchen shares another "Moment of Truth," followed by another installment of Renaldo Migaldi's Rotten History.
Historian Gabriel Winant on the N + 1 article, “J. D. Vance Changes the Subject: A senator from the unconscious.” You can find Gabriel's article here: https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/politics/j-d-vance-changes-the-subject-2/
Chuck interviews Claire Provost and Matt Kennard on their book, "Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy."
Sharanya Deepak on The Baffler article, "India’s Beef with Beef: Vegetarianism as a tool for punishment and surveillance."Also, 'The Past Inside the Present with Seb Wüepper.
Writer and publisher Charlotte Shane on the N + 1 article, "Three Times: The pregnancy was the crisis, not the abortion." You can find Charlotte's N+1 article here: https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-44/politics/three-times/And some of her other work here: http://www.charoshane.com/
Alex de Waal discusses the war inside Sudan and the impact of internal and external forces on the continued bloodshed.
Ashley Dawson joins This is Hell! to discuss their new book, "Decolonize Conservation: Global Voices for Indigenous Self-Determination, Land, and a World in Common," co-edited with Fiore Longo and Survival InternationalAshley Dawson is currently Professor of Postcolonial Studies in the English Department at the Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY), and at the College of Staten Island/CUNY. He currently works in the fields of environmental humanities and postcolonial ecocriticism.
Christopher Ketcham on his Truthdig article, “The Green Growth Delusion: Advocates of “Green Growth” promise a painless transition to a post-carbon future. But what if the limits of renewable energy require sacrificing consumption as a way of life?” Christopher writes for several outlets, including his journalism non-profit, Denatured.Jeff Dorchen muses about advice in a new The Moment of Truth.You can find Christopher's article here: https://www.truthdig.com/dig/green-tinted-glasses/
Gaiutra Bahadur on her Boston Review article, “Unmaking Asian Exceptionalism: On violence and the possibility of solitaries in America.”Chuck shares rotten history, and, in "Past Inside the Present," Seb looks at the history of the fairness doctrine.
Historian Quinn Slobodian joins This is Hell! to discuss his new book, "Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy." Quinn is the award-winning author of, "Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism," which has been translated into six languages. He is a professor of the history of ideas at Wellesley College. Then, Jeff Dorchen enlightens us with another installment of "The Moment of Truth."
Simon Waxman talks about his Baffler article, "Worst Laid Plans: Foreign Politics is politics." Waxman is a senior editor with the Harvard University Press and his writing has been published by the Washington Post, Boston Globe, New Republic, LA Review of Books, Democracy Journal, the Baffler, and others.
Alissa Quart joins This is Hell! to discuss her new book, Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream. Alissa Quart is a journalist and executive director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.
Historian Kevin A. Young joins us to discuss the challenges of capital strikes, institutional resistance, and potential allies and foes Chicago's Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson will face when he takes office on May 15. He recently published the Jacobin article, "Brandon Johnson Won in Chicago. Now His Movement Will Have to Beat Capital Strikes." Kevin is Associate Professor of History at University of Massachusetts Amherst where he teaches Latin American History.You can find his recent Jacobin article here: https://jacobin.com/2023/04/brandon-johnson-mayor-chicago-capital-strikes-movements
We have on Malcolm Harris to talk about his recent book Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World. Malcolm Harris is a freelance writer and an editor at The New Inquiry.And an all-new mind expanding Moment of Truth from our own Jeff Dorchen.
Returning to This is Hell! is the Intercept's Alleen Brown. Her work focuses on environmental justice issues. Her most recent article, co-written with Naveen Sadasivan is titled, "Oil and Water: After Spying on Standing Rock, TigerSwan Shopped Anti-Protest 'Counterinsurgency' to Other Oil Companies." The investigation is based on more than 50,000 pages of documents that were recently made public after the company behind the Dakota Access pipeline lost a court case to keep them secret.You can find the article, "Oil and Water," here: https://theintercept.com/2023/04/13/standing-rock-tigerswan-protests/
Katherine Yon Ebright joins Chuck to discuss her report, "Secret War: How the U.S. Uses Partnerships and Proxy Forces Wage War Under the Radar." She explains how security cooperation programs have led U.S. forces into unauthorized hostilities alongside foreign partners. Ebright serves as counsel with the Brennan Center's Liberty and National Security Program.You can read Katherine Ebright's report, "Secret War: How the U.S. Uses Partnerships and Proxy Forces Wage War Under the Radar," here: https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/secret-war
We're joined by Dr. Naa Oyo A. Kwate who is on to discuss her recent book "White Burgers, Black Cash," about the affect of the Fast Food industry on Black America. Dr. Kwate is an Associate Professor of Africana Studies as well as an Associate Professor of Human Ecology at Rutgers University. Moreover we've got Rotten History and an all-new Moment of Truth from Jeff Dorchen! It's stacked!
After a tongue-twister of a Danish hangover cure, Chuck interviews Rasha Al Aqeedi about her New Lines Magazine article, "Living — and Reliving — the US Invasion of Iraq." Rasha Al Aqeedi, formerly a 2018-2019 Robert A. Fox Fellow in FPRI’s Middle East Program, is Managing Editor of Irfaa Sawtak (Raise Your Voice) and a researcher and analyst of contemporary Iraqi politics and political Islam. She is also a non-resident fellow of George Washington University’s Program on Extremism. Previously, Rasha was a researcher at the Al Mesbar Studies and Research Center in Dubai, and an analyst at Inside Iraqi Politics. Her work on Mosul and Sunni politics is frequently cited by The New York Times, Washington Post, AP and Buzzfeed. Rasha received an M.A. in Translation, a B.A. in Translation, and a B.A. in Computer Engineering from Mosul University.Check out Rasha's New Line Magazine article here: https://newlinesmag.com/first-person/living-and-reliving-the-us-invasion-of-iraq/
Our mystical foray into the This Is Hell vaults, retrieving never-before-aired interviews from early covid times, has reached its satisfying conclusion. Today we play an interview with Malcolm Harris, who in April of 2020 was talking about his then-recent book "Shit Is Fucked Up and Bullshit: History Since the End of History."As though that wasn't enough, we also provide ALL NEW answers to this weeks Question From Hell, and ask you to join our Patreon several times. (please do it's cold in this studio)
Our series of lost pandemic tapes continues: an interview from early covid times that was never aired on our home station WNUR: Helen Yaffe explains the ideological threat that Cuban's healthcare system poses to free market capitalism. And all-new Rotten History and your answers to the Question From Hell!
Sociologist Erin Hatton explores the nature of coerced labor in America - as prisons, welfare programs and universities push workers outside the protection of traditional legal employment, employers wield increasing power to exploit and punish subjects with little protection and less bargaining power.
We welcome Murtaza Hussain, a reporter at The Intercept who focuses on national security and foreign policy to discuss the horrendous aftermath of the Iraq War
Just as there is a lost cause narrative for the South White Northerners and Westerners have spun a related tale, and it's that they're all abolitionist.
Today's episode takes us into the archives 20 years ago to the day. Less than a week after the United States military invaded Iraq, Middle East Report editor Chris Toensing spoke with Chuck about the narrative being spun at the time to frame the invasion as a preemptive defensive measure to remove an imminent threat to the United States. Little did Chris and Chuck know at the time just how much water the media would carry for the Bush administration and the imperialists at the Project for the New American Century. Then Jeff regales us with his vision of illuminated dog paws. Finally, a Question from Hell winner is announced.
Historian Robin D. G. Kelley returns to This is Hell! to talk about his essay titled, “Buried History: The Death and Life of Donald S. Kelley” Part of a collection of essays called “After Life: A Collective History of Loss and Redemption in Pandemic America." (Haymarket Books). Robin is a writer and professor of history at UCLA. His most recent book is "Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination" https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/206173/freedom-dreams-by-robin-dg-kelley/
After a multipurpose hangover cure, Center for Economic Policy and Research Senior Economist and longtime friend of the show Dean Baker edifies us with his analysis of the mainstream media's irresponsible reporting on the failure of Silicon Valley Bank along with some remarks on how the financial system might be restructured. On The Past Inside the Present, Seb continues his series on Soviet history and the origins of US-Soviet relations with a discussion of the Great Patriotic War and its significance.You can follow Dean's musings on his Center for Economic Policy and Research blog, Beat the Press: https://cepr.net/blog/dean-bakers-beat-the-press/
Writer, ethnographer, and human-rights activist Michael Gould-Wartofsky is onto talk about his TomDispatch article, "Welcome to the Predator State: Where the Scorpions on the Corner Just Might Kill You," which about the killing of Tyre Nichols by a Memphis police unit called SCORPION. And an all-new Moment of Truth with Jeff Dorchen: This week Jeff wants to conquer the world with a philosophy of radical underachievement.
Tuesday, March 14th 2023, historian Keri Leigh Merritt returns to This is Hell! is co-editor of the collection, "After Life: A Collective History of Loss and Redemption in Pandemic America." This episode also features this week in Rotten History and new responses to the Question from Hell!Keri Leigh was a guest on the show back in 2017 to discuss a book that was selected as one of our listeners favorites of the year, "Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South."Keri Leigh Merritt is a historian, editor and an independent scholar. She earned her B.A. from Emory University and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Georgia. Her first book, Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South (Cambridge University Press, 2017), won both the Bennett Wall Award from the Southern Historical Association, honoring the best book in Southern economic or business history published in the previous two years, as well as the President’s Book Award from the Social Science History Association.Merritt is also co-editor, with Matthew Hild, of Reconsidering Southern Labor History: Race, Class, and Power (University Press of Florida, 2018), which won the 2019 Best Book Award from the UALE (United Association for Labor Education). She is currently working on two book-length projects for trade presses. Merritt also writes for the public, and has had letters and essays published in a variety of outlets. Most recently she released a self-narrated audiobook version of Masterless Men, and launched her history-based YouTube Channel “Merrittocracy.”
After this week's hangover cure leaves us in suspense, British Academy Global Professor Siddharth Kara shares his horrifying research on the exploitation and inhumanity at the heart of the cobalt mining industry in the Congo upon which current rechargeable battery technology relies. Sebastian then brightens the mood with the first of several segments on a subject which the Western public remains ignorant: the history of the Soviet Union. Spoiler: it's not all gulags and show trials, but there were still plenty of those.
We have on Ann Neumann to discuss her new Baffler article: "Hydropower: A dam on the Nile roils democratic relations in the Horn of Africa"Jeff delivers a new Moment of Truth and the Question From Hell Contest freewheels into its cathartic culmination.
Professor Ariane Chebel d'Appollonia joins us in Hell to discuss her book "Violent America: The Dynamics of Identity Politics in a Multiracial Society" This episode also features new responses to the Question from Hell and this week in Rotten History. Dr. Ariane Chebel d'Appollonia is a professor in the School of Public Affairs and Administration (SPAA) at Rutgers University–Newark. She is also a Senior Researcher affiliated with the Center for European Studies and Comparative Politics (Sciences Po Paris). Her research focuses on the politics of immigration and racism, management of diversity, urban/minority policies, anti-discrimination, security issues, xenophobia, extreme-right wing movements, immigrant integration, and European policies. She has taught at universities both in France and in the United States.
Journalist Jasper Craven discusses his Baffler article, "The Sunshine Imperium: The Militarism of Ron DeSantis." Chuck and Will review the latest hangover cure, Siberian (red) ginseng, and fresh responses from this week's Question from Hell. Seb's "The Past Inside the Present" segment edifies and terrifies with a deep dive into the differences between American and Soviet nuclear doctrines.
Today we have on Caroline Chen to discuss her ProPublica series, "Roots of an Outbreak" And the Question From Hell flies right towards its effulgent fulfillment.
Chuck interviews Dan Kolbert, co-author along with Christopher Briley, Michael Maines and Emily Mottram, of, “Pretty Good House: A Guide to Creating Better Homes.” Dan has been a carpenter and contractor in Portland, Maine, for three decades. He has written for various trade publications, including Fine Homebuilding magazine, and for the past 10 years has been moderator of the original Building Science Discussion Group in Portland, Maine, where the Pretty Good House idea originated.You can see Dan’s work at kolbertbuilding.comFollow Dan’s work on Instagram @kolbertbuildingThis episode also features this week in Rotten History, written by Renaldo Migaldi.
Theologian, ordained minister, and anti-poverty activist Liz Theoharis is on to discuss her TomDispatch articles "Poverty Amid Plenty' and "Making it in a Poor World". Liz is Co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival and director of the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights and Social Justice at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. She is the author of, "Always With Us? What Jesus Really Said About the Poor," and, "We Cry Justice: Reading the Bible with the Poor People’s Campaign."https://tomdispatch.com/poverty-amid-plenty/This episode also features this week's Hangover Cure and a Past Inside the Present from Sebastian Wuepper, PhD.
Journalist Kari Lydersen returns to talk about her In These Times article, "The Case for Nationalizing the Railroads."Plus, and all-new Moment of Truth and the Question from Hell reaches it's electrifying terminus.
Journalist Prem Thakker speaks with host Chuck Mertz about his articles in the New Republic about the the hellish Norfolk Southern train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, where residents have been told it is safe to return to the site of an intentional burn of 1.1 million pounds of vinyl chloride, a class 1 carcinogen, despite lack of comprehensive testing and many test results remaining inconclusive. This episode was produced by Lindsey Gorry and features this week in Rotten History written by Renaldo MigaldiPrem Thakker is an associate writer for breaking news at The New Republic. His work has appeared in The American Prospect, Washington Monthly, CNN podcasts, and his newsletter Better World.Find Prem's writing on the East Palestine here: https://newrepublic.com/authors/prem-thakker
Journalist Asawin Suebsaeng discusses his Rolling Stones articles "Twitter Kept Entire 'Database’ of Republican Requests to Censor Posts " and "Trump Plans to Bring Back Firing Squads, Group Executions if He Retakes White House". This episode also features this week's Hangover Cure, new Question from Hell!, and a Past Inside the Present about Jim Crow Laws from historian Sebastion Wuepper.https://www.rollingstone.com/author/asawin-suebsaeng/
We have on Elizabeth Samet, author of, "Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness." Elizabeth is a professor of English at West Point.
Boyce Upholdt returns to This is Hell! to discuss his piece recently published by the New Republic, "The Frightening Cost of Cheap Eggs: Why paying more for eggs could save us from another pandemic". This episode also features this week in Rotten History and new responses to the Question from Hell.Boyce Upholt is an award-winning freelance writer focused on the way we use and imagine the non-human world. He covers, among other subjects, public lands, exploration, biodiversity, foodways, infrastructure, and the cultural history of ”wilderness.” His work has appeared in The Atlantic, National Geographic, the Oxford American, and many other publications, and has been noted in the Best American Science and Nature series. Boyce won the 2019 award for investigative journalism from the James Beard Foundation. He is currently working on a book about the Mississippi River—a history of what’s been done to it and travelogue showing the results.
Dr. Clarence Lusane joins This is Hell! to discuss his series of Tom Dispatch articles, explaining how MAGA fascists found inspiration in suppressing the black vote to storm the US Capitol on Jan. 6th 2021. This episode also features this week's Hangover Cure and a Past Inside the Present from Dr. Sebastian Wuepper. This Week's Question from Hell! If you could spy on anyone or anything in the United States, who or what would it be? https://truthout.org/articles/january-6-report-obscured-the-role-of-racism-in-the-stop-the-steal-movement/https://tomdispatch.com/authors/clarencelusane/Dr. Clarence Lusane is a full Professor, former Chairman of Howard University’s Department of Political Science, and current Director of the International Affairs program. He is an author, activist, scholar, lecturer, and journalist. For more than 40 years, he has written about and been active in national and international human rights, anti-racism politics, Diaspora engagements, U.S. foreign policy, democracy building, and social justice issues such as education, criminal justice, and voting rights. He earned his B.A. from Wayne State University, and both his Masters and Ph.D. from Howard University in Political Science. His most recent book is The Black History of the White House.
We welcome human rights attorney Noura Erakat who wrote the Boston Review article, "Designing the Future in Palestine: Palestinian women and feminist organizations are reimagining what liberation can look like beyond national independence."Noura is Associate Professor at Rutgers University, New Brunswick in the Department of Africana Studies and the Program in Criminal Justice, and author of, "Justice for Some: Law and in the Question of Palestine."
Writer, professor and musician Sheila Liming joins us in Hell! to talk about her recently published book, "Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time". This episode also features a Past inside the Present from Dr. Sebastian Wuepper and new responses to this week's Question from Hell! Which is "When we take over the means of production, what can we produce once in a while as a treat?"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717263/hanging-out-by-sheila-liming/Sheila Liming is an associate professor at Champlain College in Burlington, Vermont, where she teaches classes on literature, media, and writing. She is the author of two books, What a Library Means to a Woman and Office. Sheila also plays the accordion and bagpipes.http://sheilaliming.com/Twitter: @seeshespeak
Agroecologist and epidemiologist Rob Wallace returns to This is Hell! to discuss his new book, "The Fault in our SARS, COVID-19 in the Biden Era". Also featuring this week's Hangover cure and Rotten History.Rob Wallace is an evolutionary epidemiologist with the Agroecology and Rural Economics Research Corps. He is author of Big Farms Make Big Flu and coauthor of Clear-Cutting Disease Control: Capital-Led Deforestation, Public Health Austerity, and Vector-Borne Infection. He has consulted with the Food and Agriculture Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
We have on journalist Katya Schwenk to discuss her Baffler Magazine article, "The Crime Wave That Wasn't." Faithful correspondent Jeff Dorchen explores ways to dissolve world Leadership.And the Question From Hell contest collapses into its barn-burning resolution.
Dr. Lewis Gordon, department head and professor of philosophy at the University of Connecticut, discusses his most recent book titled, The Fear of Black Consciousness. This episode also features this week in Rotten History and new responses to the Question from Hell!Lewis Gordon is a philosopher at the University of Connecticut who works in the areas of Africana philosophy, existentialism, phenomenology, social and political theory, postcolonial thought, theories of race and racism, philosophies of liberation, aesthetics, philosophy of education, and philosophy of religion. He has written particularly extensively on Africana and black existentialism, postcolonial phenomenology, race and racism, and on the works and thought of W. E. B. Du Bois and Frantz Fanon. Find Fear of Black Consciousness at: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374159023/fearofblackconsciousnessManufacturing dissent since 1996: https://thisishell.com/pages/support
Recorded Monday, January 30th 2023, we speak with Rachel Garbus, a writer and editor based in Atlanta. Rachel discusses her writing recently published on Welcome to Hellworld titled, "Stopping Cop City, the murder of Tortuguita, and the trees that got us here".https://www.welcometohellworld.com/stopping-cop-city-the-murder-of-tortuguita-and-the-trees-that-got-us-here/Rachel Garbus is the co-founder of Out Down South, a multimedia history project and podcast celebrating the stories of LGBTQ+ Southerners. She's on Twitter @rachel_garbus
NOW IT CAN BE TOLD: we spin the never-before-aired-on-WNUR-because-it-was-the-start-of-covid interview from 3/25/20 with Max Haiven who had, at that time, just written the ROAR Magazine article, “No return to normal: for a post-pandemic liberation: Today, new forms of solidarity, mutual aid, and common struggle are emerging in the pandemic. How will they shape tomorrow’s struggles for a post-capitalist world?” Also, from behind the paywall we retrieve Chuck's poignant recollection of his long-lived romantic partnership that requires no state sanction. And the Question From Hell contest careens towards its dazzling fulfillment.
We revisit the strange times of the early 2020 Covid-19 pandemic social breakdown with interviews that never before graced the radiowaves of 89.3 WNUR, Northwestern University community radio across Evanston and North Chicago. At the time, we were locked down and out of the broadcasting studio. This interview was originally recorded on March 31st, 2020 with economist Eileen Applebaum about her article, "The U.S. Response to COVID-19: What’s in Federal Legislation and What’s Not, but Still Needed" written with Shawn Fremstad for CEPR. We consider it with 2023 hindsight and review the present week's Question from Hell!The entire past show exists on our website at: https://soundcloud.com/this-is-hell/tih20200331Manufacturing dissent since 1996: https://thisishell.com/pages/support
We play the first of three "lost" interview from the early days of the Pandemic that was never played on the radio. We also present this week's Question from Hell! as well as the Hangover Cure. And then producer Seb has a best-off repeat of a Past inside the Present from last summer, the last he will read live in studio before leaving for greener pastures.
Reporter, public records requester, researcher Julia Rock joins us to discuss her article at The Lever, "How Big Pharma Actually Spends Its Massive Profits: New research shows that pharmaceutical companies have spent more on enriching shareholders than drug research and development over the past decade."
Our host Chuck Mertz postpones his scheduled interview with philosopher Rebecca Gordon due to stomach flu. Lindsey Gorry fills in at the studio by playing back Gordon's interview with This is Hell! in 2016 about the case for prosecuting the Bush administration for post 9/11 war crimes. Also featuring an extra sticky week in Rotten History and new responses to the Question from Hell. Rebecca Gordon teaches at the University of San Francisco. She is the author of Mainstreaming Torture, American Nuremberg: The U.S. Officials Who Should Stand Trial for Post-9/11 War Crimes and is now at work on a new book on the history of torture in the United States. Prior to teaching at USF, Rebecca spent many years as an activist in a variety of movements, including for women's and LGBTQ+ liberation, the Central America and South Africa solidarity movements and for racial justice in the United States.If you would like to contribute to This is Hell! and the manufacture of dissent, you can buy merch, subscribe to Patreon, or donate any amount by following this link: https://thisishell.com/pages/support
Chuck welcomes friend of the show Brian Mier to talk about Brazil's January 6 knockoff event and the differences in how Brazil fights fascism to how the US refuses to. We have this week's Question from Hell!, your weekly Hangover Cure, and producer Sebastian brings a new Past inside the Present segment. In honor of Martin Luther King Day Sebastian talks about slavery in America.
Today we have the return of journalist Christopher Ketcham who co-wrote The Intercept piece, "The Shutdown of “Luxury Emissions” Should Be at the Center of Climate Revolt."
Stefania Maurizi is an investigative journalist currently contributing to the major Italian daily Il Fatto Quotidiano after working for the last 14 years for la Repubblica, consistently rated among the top two Italian newspapers, and for the italian newsmagezine l’Espresso. She has worked with Julian Assange and his organization WikiLeaks since 2009, teaming up with large teams of international media to cover and investigate all WikiLeaks' secret documentsStefania speaks with host Chuck Mertz about her book "Secret Power: WikiLeaks and Its Enemies" recently published by Pluto Press. This episode also features new responses to the Question from Hell and this week in Rotten History. https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745347615/secret-power/https://stefaniamaurizi.it/en-idx.htmlhttps://twitter.com/SMauriziwww.fattoquotidiano.it twitter.com/fattoquotidianwww.repubblica.it twitter.com/repubblica
Filmaker and journalist Esmé von Hoffman talks with Chuck Mertz about her recent article "I Thought it was Safe" published by The Lever. Also featuring a new Past Inside the Present from Sebastian Wuepper and this week's Hangover Cure. Esmé von Hoffman runs Chalk Circle Films and is an award-winning filmmaker who draws on her experience in journalism, theater, and the visual arts to bring a fresh aesthetic to film and television.@esme_von https://esmevonhoffman.com/https://www.levernews.com/i-heard-it-was-safe/?fbclid=IwAR3QLaIppaV_MCFMuLGPl9APw313M1lxM4AAtPckG94DX7rN-pH3ekKYK5Y
We despair with too few replies to this week's needlessly complicated Question from Hell!, reveal big news about the This is Hell! Team, and play the final Best of 2022 interview from January last year with Roberto Lovato talking about the implications of legalizing drugs and criminalizing psychodelics for people that have consumed them for hundreds of years.
Our latest 'Best of 2022' interview is with organizer and author Tracy Rosenthal who wrote The New Republic article, “Inside LA’s Homeless Industrial Complex,” which she argues exists not of some failure of homelessness policy but an example of the system working exactly as intended.
We replay listener-chosen Best of 2022 interview with CD Davidson-Hiers and Jeff Vandermeer on their article "Is Florida Becoming a Failed State?" published October 11th, 2022 by The Nation. Also featuring this week's Hangover Cure and new responses to the Question from Hell!www.thenation.com/article/society/…a-hurricane-ian/CD Davidson-Hiers is a native Floridian who grew up on a 40-acre horse farm in North Florida. Her work has appeared in the Bitter Southerner, Flamingo Magazine, and USA Today. She works for the nonprofit Education Writers Association while also overseeing the Florida Student News Watch, an organization to mentor new journalists. Her work covering the US Covid-19 vaccine rollout received recognition from NPR, The Washington Post, Soledad O’Brien, and other national news outlets.Jeff VanderMeer’s award-winning novel Annihilation is set in the St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge. His environmental advocacy has included helping save cypress swamp in North Florida and sponsoring research into the endangered frosted flatwood salamander. A 35-year resident of Florida, he has previously written about the state for, among others, Current Affairs and The Los Angeles Times.
From October, Brian Mier, editor and contributor to, “Year of Lead: Washington, Wall Street and the New Imperialism in Brazil,” co-editor of Brasilwire, Brazil correspondent for TeleSur English's News Program, From the South, and co-host on Brazil 24/7. Brian was on to discuss his most recent writing at the time, “Media Spins Lula Victory As Defeat,” which was posted just before Lula da Silva won the Brazilian presidential run-off over incumbent Jair Bolsonaro.
We replay a listener chosen favorite interview from 2022 with Dorothy Roberts, an award-winning author and expert on the interplay of gender, race, and class in legal issues concerning reproduction, bioethics, and child welfare. She is a professor of law and sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. Chuck Mertz interviews Roberts about her latest book, TORN APART: How the child welfare system destroys black families—and how abolition can build a safer world.
Live from Sebastian's living room where he hasn't calibrated his mic correctly, here's the Best of 2022 for Boxing Day with an interview from July 2022 with writer Kate Manne on abortion rights and pregnancy criminalization.
We continue our Best of 2022 series, wherein we revisit the very best interviews of the past year. This week we return to our interview with Gerald Horne, author of, “The Counter-Revolution of 1836: Texas Slavery & JIm Crow and the Roots of U.S. Fascism.” Gerald continues his dynasty of repeated appearances on our year-end best-of round-ups! Moreover, this week's Question From Hell contest reaches its electrifying culmination.
We replay a listener chosen favorite interview from 2022 with Laura Mauldin who is a writer, sociologist, and interdisciplinary scholar based in New York City. The interview was initially recorded August 22, 2022 and discusses Mauldin's article "Care Tactics" published by the Baffler https://thebaffler.com/salvos/care-tactics-mauldin
The Listeners (you) chose this August interview with Heather Berg, Assistant Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at Washington University St. Louis. Dr. Berg talked about her Boston Review article "Freedom, not Benefits: Sex Workers are the Vanguard of Labor. The Left ignores them at its own Peril." We also feature an somewhat new Past inside the Present, present this week's Question from Hell!, and then also give you this week's much needed Hangover Cure.
Michael Hawthorne is on to talk about his investigation into "Forever chemicals: They’re in your drinking water and likely your food. Michael is a Pulitzer-finalist investigative reporter who focuses on the environment and public health for the Chicago Tribune.
Our planned interview is rescheduled for tomorrow. Today we review Rotten History and new answers to the Question from Hell. We play back an interview with Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law, recorded August 5th, 2020. https://thisishell.com/interviews/1214-victoria-law-maya-schenwar
We welcome environmental scholar Leslie Kern to talk about her new book "Gentrification is Inevitable - And other Lies." We also present you this week's (long) Question from Hell!, and have another Icelandic hangover cure. Producer Sebastian has this week's Past Inside the Present, in which he details some of the reasons for Germany's awkward relationship with Israel.
Today's guest had to reschedule, so we replay a past episode, Lindsey has a hellride to work and is called to play back a musical episode featuring artist Wesley WIllis, recovered from the vaults by producer Dan Hill.
Lawyer and activist Flint Taylor returns to the program to discuss his recent article in the Police Misconduct and Civil Rights Law Report "The Wrongful Conviction of Johnnie Lee Savory.Taylor’s work in fighting against police torture in Chicago over the past 29 years has been instrumental in obtaining the conviction and imprisonment of police torture ringleader Jon Burge and the precedent setting decision that upheld the inclusion of former Mayor Richard M. Daley as a co-conspiring defendant in the Tillman civil rights case.
We welcome Associate Professor of Media and Communication Matthew Crain to the show to talk about his Boston Review article "How Capitalism and not a Few Bad Actors Destroyed the Internet." We also present this week's Question from Hell!, have a brand new Hangover Cure, and producer Sebastian talks about how railroad strikes getting cracked down upon by the government is a tradition in this country almost as old as railroads themselves in this week's Past Inside the Present. https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/how-capitalism-not-a-few-bad-actors-destroyed-the-internet/
Mick Dumke is a reporter for ProPublica. His work has focused on politics and government, including investigations of local and federal gun policies, secret police databases and corruption at Chicago City Hall.
Mick is on to discuss his reporting on the growing Chicago Housing Authority scandal. Mick's most recent article on the topic at ProPublica is headlined, "Chicago Officials Withhold Key Financial Information as City Hands Public Housing Land Over to Wealthy Ally of the Mayor.
Chuck Mertz speaks with science writer Spencer Roberts and political economist Jan Dutkiewicz about their New Republic Article, "How the Meat Industry Undermines Effective Climate Policy". https://newrepublic.com/article/168766/meat-industry-lobbying-climate
This week in Rotten History and new responses to the Question from Hell!
Spencer Roberts is a science writer, ecologist, musician, and engineer from Colorado. His writing focuses on corporate greenwashing and science corruption. It is featured in places like Jacobin, Wired, and Current Affairs. @Unpop_Science Jan Dutkiewicz is a Visiting Fellow at Harvard Law School. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science and comes to Harvard after Postdoctoral Fellowships at Johns Hopkins University and with the Swiss National Science Foundation. He is a political economist whose research focuses on large-scale conventional meat production and the emergent world of alternative protein. His work examines how business interests, ethical and environmental debates, and consumer behavior both shape and are shaped by the law, policy, and politics, and how this all influences what Americans eat. @jan_dutkiewicz
Chuck returns to the studio, we have this week's Hangover Cure where Sebastian mispronounces Icelandic names, an all new Question from Hell! for the week, and a brand new installment of The Past inside the Present, talking about the connection between billionaire worship, the Puritans and the history of the prosperity gospel movement. Chuck welcomes historian, writer, and activist Austin McCoy to talk about his Baffler Magazine article "After Floyd - If you can’t rein in the police, you can’t save democracy."
Board Operator Dan selects a Golden Oldie from the This is Hell! vaults while Chuck recuperates from the Creeping Crud.
In this selection, Dr. Monique Morris talks about how racism and sexism collide to criminalize Black girls.
After which, this week's Question From Hell contest culminates thunderously.
Producer Lindsey Gorry replays an interview from 2019 with political scientist Thea Riofrancos while Chuck recovers from Covid-19.
More info on Thea Riofrancos work here: http://www.theariofrancos.com/about
And find her on twitter here: https://twitter.com/triofrancos
Chuck is out sick this week, so the producers run the show in Limbo Mode. Sebastian presents a 2015 interview with South African political economist Patrick Bond, talking about the FIFA bribery scandals of which the now (in 2022) ongoing world cup in Qatar is a fruit.
We speak with political science scholar, Nojang Khatami who is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Justitita Center for Advanced Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt. Beginning in the fall of 2023, he will be Assistant Professor of Political Science at Fordham University. Nojang is on to talk about his Boston Review article, “The Lifeblood of Iranian Democracy: From street demonstrations to song, dance, film, and poetry, women are advancing a long legacy of struggle against authoritarianism in Iran.”
Alec Karakatsanis joins Chuck Mertz to discuss his piece "Warning to Journalists About Elite Academia" published at https://equalityalec.substack.com/ . Alec is the founder and executive director of Civil Rights Corps and Author of Usual Cruelty. New responses to the Question from Hell and this week in Rotten History.
Chuck interviews political scientist Lilliana Mason on her books on partisan violence in the United States. We also introduce this week's Question from Hell!, and the weekly Hangover Cure. Producer Sebastian talks about why it's really better to not use the term "Kristallnacht" to talk about the pogroms against German Jews on November 9, 1938.
Board Operator Dan spins some golden oldies; two classic interviews with John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hitman. Regular shows resume next week!
Lindsey replays an interview with Jenny Odell from May 18th, 2019. Odell is an artist and author of the books How to Do Nothing and the forthcoming, Saving Time. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/672377/saving-time-by-jenny-odell/
We revisit an interview with Michael Parenti from November 2005. Chuck is back next week.
Sudip Bhattacharya talks about his article at HardCrackers.com, "Socialism or Suburbia." Sudip is a doctoral candidate in Political Science at Rutgers University. He is also a writer, organizer, and you can find his other work at outlets like Protean Magazine, CounterPunch and Reappropriate, and the Aerogram.
Correspondent Brian Mier connects with host Chuck Mertz to discuss the upcoming run-off 2022 Brazilian presidential election between Jair Bolsenaro and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Also featuring this week's Rotten History, Chuck has Christmas in October, and Lindsey shares the pear harvest from Oriana's Orchard.
Brian is an editor and contributor to, “Year of Lead: Washington, Wall Street and the New Imperialism in Brazil,” co-editor of Brasilwire, Brazil correspondent for TeleSur English's News Program, From the South, and co-host on Brazil 24/7.
CD Davidson-Hiers and Jeff Vandermeer speak with Chuck about their article "Is Florida Becoming a Failed State?" published October 11th, 2022 by The Nation. This week's Hangover Cure and new Question from Hell.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/florida-hurricane-ian/
CD Davidson-Hiers is a native Floridian who grew up on a 40-acre horse farm in North Florida. Her work has appeared in the Bitter Southerner, Flamingo Magazine, and USA Today. She works for the nonprofit Education Writers Association while also overseeing the Florida Student News Watch, an organization to mentor new journalists. Her work covering the US Covid-19 vaccine rollout received recognition from NPR, The Washington Post, Soledad O’Brien, and other national news outlets.
Jeff VanderMeer’s award-winning novel Annihilation is set in the St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge. His environmental advocacy has included helping save cypress swamp in North Florida and sponsoring research into the endangered frosted flatwood salamander. A 35-year resident of Florida, he has previously written about the state for, among others, Current Affairs and The Los Angeles Times.
We have filmmaker Joe Winston on to discuss his new movie, ‘Punch 9 for Harold Washington, “The story of Harold Washington, elected in 1983 as Chicago's first African-American Mayor, the political battles he fought, and his legacy to Chicago and the nation.”
Los Angeles, California-based freelance journalist Cerise Castle speaks with host Chuck Mertz about her research and reporting published on Knock LA: “A Tradition of Violence,” the first history of deputy gangs inside the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, the largest local law enforcement agency in the United States. The investigation was published as a 15-part reporting series exposing 18 gangs, 19 documented murders (all of whom were people of color), and over $100 million dollars in lawsuits paid for by the people of Los Angeles. The podcast of the same name and subject matter is due October 19th 2022.
https://knock-la.com/tradition-of-violence-lasd-gang-history/
Cerise Castle specializes in arts & culture, civil rights, crime, and human interest stories. She's produced and hosted segments for the Emmy-award winning nightly news program, VICE News Tonight, NPR, and several podcasts. Her reporting and commentary have been featured in publications like Knock LA, the Daily Beast, the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Magazine, and MTV.
We have on Jodi Dean, author of, "Socialist Reconstruction, A Better Future for the United States."
Theologian, ordained minister, and anti-poverty activist Liz Theoharis is on to discuss her TomDispatch article, "No More Sacrifices: Mercy Makes Good Policy." Liz is Co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival and director of the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights and Social Justice at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. She is the author of, "Always With Us? What Jesus Really Said About the Poor," and, "We Cry Justice: Reading the Bible with the Poor People’s Campaign."
Reporter Alex Vuocolo speaks with host Chuck Mertz about his NOEMA Magazine article "The Disappearing Art Of Maintenance" published September 22nd, 2022. This week in Rotten History and new listener responses to the Question from Hell.
Elyas Nawandish is on to talk about his article at The Intercept, “I Watched the Afghan Government Collapse Under the Weight of Its Own Greed: Our leaders failed to give Afghan soldiers the food, tools, and respect they needed to defeat a brutal insurgency.” Elyas is an Afghanistan Observatory Scholar at New America. Since 2014, he has worked with the Kabul-based Etilaat Roz daily newspaper, where he is currently the online chief editor, supervising a team of 20 journalists. Previously, he served as news manager, investigative reporter, and text editor for Etilaat Roz. He has produced around 160 reports and editorials, including 12 major investigations on politics, security, human rights, rule of law, corruption, and abuse of state resources by former Afghan government officials.
We speak with Fatema Ahmad, co-author, along with Azadeh Shahshahani, of a new article at The Progressive, “The Surveillance State Can’t Solve White Supremacy: After the January 6 attack, federal surveillance programs expanded to counter white supremacist violence have made Black and brown communities their main target.” Fatema is executive director of the Muslim Justice League.
Sophie Lewis returns to This Is Hell on Tuesday, October 4th to speak with host Chuck Mertz about her new book, Abolish the Family, out on Verso, October 2022. https://www.versobooks.com/books/4075-abolish-the-family
Sophie Lewis is the author of Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family (Verso, 2019), hailed by Donna Haraway as “the seriously radical cry for full gestational justice that I long for.” Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation (Verso, 2022) is her second book. As a member of the faculty of Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, Sophie teaches courses on feminist, trans and queer politics and philosophy, including family abolitionism, Shulamith Firestone, and Kathi Weeks. With the Out of the Woods writing collective, Lewis contributed to the collection Hope Against Hope: Writings on Ecological Crisis (Common Notions, 2020). With Blind Field Journal, she has helped foster communities of Marxist-feminist cultural criticism. Previously, Dr. Lewis studied English Literature (BA) and Nature, Society and Environmental Policy (MSc) at Oxford University; Politics (MA) at the New School for Social Research; and Geography (PhD) at Manchester University. Her doctoral dissertation, “Cyborg Labor: Exploring Surrogacy as Gestational Work,” sought to reframe the political economy of contract pregnancy for the purposes of an antiwork polymaternalist utopianism. Sophie’s essays and commentaries appear in venues such as n+1, Boston Review, The Nation, The Baffler, Mal, e-flux, the New York Times and London Review of Books; her papers appear in, e.g., Signs, Paragraph, and Feminist Theory. A Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Research on Feminist, Queer and Transgender Studies, Sophie is nevertheless a freelance writer dependent on public speaking and Patreon (patreon.com/reproutopia). Her lectures are archived at lasophielle.org.
It's Chuck's Birthday! Jubilations all around!
We welcome writer, researcher, and oral historian Lyndsie Bourgon to talk about her book "Tree Thieves - Crime and Survival in North America's Woods." We also present your Hangover Cure for this Monday, and have a new Question from Hell! for the week. Also producer Sebastian talks immigration history in another installment of The Past Inside the Present.
Journalist Kari Lydersen is an author and assistant professor of journalism at Northwestern University. She's on to discuss her article at The New Republic, "Can Liberal Evanston, Illinois, Atone for Its Racist Past?"
Hadas Thier returns to This is Hell! to discuss her In These Times Article "A Left Answer to Inflation." Producer Alex returns for one show. We have new answers to this week's Question from Hell!, and This Week in Rotten History.
Chuck talks to cultural anthropologist Andrea Vetter and economic historian Matthias Schmelzer about their new book "The Future is Degrowth - A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism. https://www.versobooks.com/books/3989-the-future-is-degrowth We also have your hangover cure for this Monday, and this week's new Question from Hell!
Investigative journalist Boyce Upholt wrote The New Republic article, "Will the Next Pandemic Start With Chickens?: This spring, a virulent strain of bird flu ripped through U.S. farms. The public hardly noticed. That we could ignore the disease shows just how little we’ve learned about the origin of new viruses."
Host Chuck Mertz speaks with with Geographer Matthew Huber to discuss how individualized focus on the purification of consumer choices divides the working class and depletes energy for collective organizing against the the Capitalist culprits profiting off the extraction of environmental resources. Matthew T. Huber is Professor of Geography in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. His book Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet published May 2022 on Verso. https://www.versobooks.com/books/3973-climate-change-as-class-war
Chuck also discusses the 26th Anniversary Listener Appreciation Party, reads this week in Rotten History, and new responses to the Question from Hell.
Legal scholar Daniel Medwed talks about his book "Barred: Why the Innocent Can't Get Out of Prison." We present your Hangover Cure, talk about the weekend's Listener Appreciation Party, and present this week's Question from Hell!.
Today we have on James Wilt, author of, “Drinking Up the Revolution: How to Smash Big Alcohol and Reclaim Working-Class Joy.” James is a writer and PhD candidate based in Winnipeg, Canada.
James discusses how working class people form their relationship with drugs and alcohol when these are commodified by big business interests as well as the way in which enforcement of norms surrounding drugs and alcohol are often racialized.
Dorothy Roberts is an award-winning author and expert on the interplay of gender, race, and class in legal issues concerning reproduction, bioethics, and child welfare. She is a professor of law and sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. Chuck Mertz interviews Dorothy about her latest book, TORN APART: How the child welfare system destroys black families—and how abolition can build a safer world.
TORN APART available Now at Basic Books https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/dorothy-roberts/torn-apart/9781541675445/
Historian Steve Fraser talks about his Tom Dispatch article "The Trump Supreme Court is Nothing New," about how the Supreme Court has over time been used to kneecap the democrat process in the U.S., and how it's been originally designed to provide that function to uphold the rule of the powerful against the masses. https://tomdispatch.com/the-trump-supreme-court-is-nothing-new/
Steve Fraser talks about his Tom Dispatch article "The Trump Supreme Court is Nothing New." Chuck complains about the hell of a week he's had. Seb presents another Past inside the Present, in which he muses about what 9/11 means in the age of Covid. We reveal this week's Question from Hell! (anniversary edition), and this week's Hangover Cure.
Chuck Mertz talks with Sean O'Leary about his writing for the Ohio River Valley Institute on the impact of the natural gas industry on Appalachian Americans. Also including this week's Hangover Cure, Rotten History, and Introducing this week's Question from Hell. Featuring a first announcement of musical artists performing at This Is Hell's listener appreciation party on September 17th, 2022.
Sean O’Leary is senior researcher of energy and petrochemicals at the ORVI and is a native of Wheeling, WV. He has written about coal, natural gas, and their role in the economies of Appalachia in a book, a newspaper column, and blog titled, “The State of My State”. Previously, Sean served as communications director at the NW Energy Coalition in Seattle, Washington.
Brianna Muir wrote the Sapiens article, "An Archaeology of Personhood and Abortion: Opinions about fetal personhood and abortion have fluctuated enormously throughout history and differ in surprising ways between cultures."
Brianna is a master’s student in biological anthropology at the University of Central Florida. As an emerging bioarchaeologist, she is interested in how integrative approaches can be used to address questions of personhood, identity, and agency in the past. In particular, she investigates how these factors may have shaped and influenced a person’s lived experiences. Muir received her B.A. from the Australian National University in 2019 and has undertaken fieldwork and research in the Philippines, Vanuatu, and Australia.
William Deresiewicz is a writer and former professor of English at Yale University. William discusses his article "Why I Left Academia (Since You're Wondering)" published August 17th 2022 on Quillete.com with host Chuck Mertz. New responses to the Question From Hell and this week in Rotten History
We have on Tarence Ray from the Trillbilly Worker's Party podcast to discuss the devastating effects of recent flooding in Eastern Kentucky and how the government response affected the poor and working class.
The return of economist Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic Policy and Research. Dean is on to discuss his most recent writing, including, “Structuring the Economy to Give Money to the Rich Is Inflationary.”
Penny M. Von Eschen is author of the new book, “Paradoxes of Nostalgia: Cold War Triumphalism and Global Disorder since 1989.” Penny is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of American Studies and Professor of History at the University of Virginia and author of, “Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War,” and “Race against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937–1957.” We speak with Penny about the enduring legacy of the Cold War in international politics.
Sociologist Laura Mauldin talks about her Baffler article "Care Tactics: Hacking an Ableist World," we introduce this week's Question from Hell!, and bring you your Hangover Cure for this Monday. Also, producer Seb gives another history lesson on the Nazis, and the Holocaust - and why we need to remember it.
Gender and Sexuality studies scholar Heather Berg talks about her Boston Review article "Freedom, Not Benefits Sex workers are labor’s vanguard. The left ignores them at its peril." We have the winning answer to this week's Question from Hell!, and producer Seb introduces his rebranded segment "The Past inside the Present" with the first half of a two-parter on the most fun topic of all: the Holocaust.
https://bostonreview.net/articles/freedom-not-benefits/
Algernon Austin, Director for Race and Economic Jusice at the Center for Economic and Policy research discusses his recent writing including, "Black People Need Better Options than the Morgue or Mass Incarceration," "Black People (And Everyone Else) Should Avoid Crypto," "Only Radical Changes Will Make Rents Affordable," and "Black Children are Disproportionately Harmed by Extremist Gun Rights Policies in the US.
Chuck is back from his vacation! Today he talked to journalist Steven Thrasher about his book "The Viral Underclass The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide." We also have your Hangover Cure, this week in Rotten History, and some of your answers to the Question from Hell!.
Producer Dan introduces two interviews with activist and scholar Norman Finkelstein, talking about the Israeli siege of Gaza. We also crown this week's winning answer to the Question from Hell!.
Producer Lindsey presents a 2020 interview with Labor historian Tamara Fernando on disease and East Indian pearl fisheries, and what those early capitalist labor conditions in relation to diseases can tell us about the still-current moment.
Producer Seb introduces a 2016 interview with postcolonial studies scholar Ashley Dawson on capitalism powered extinction events around the globe. He also has some answers to this week's Question from Hell! and tries (without success) to come up with a valid hangover cure.
Producer Dan introduces two interviews with Kurdish activist Dilar Dirik, talking about the movement for Kurdish liberation and how that movement's politics represent an alternate vision to the neoliberal world order.
Producer Dan plays two interviews from the vault that deal with the U.S. war in Iraq, and the subsequent rise of ISIS in the region.
We welcome investigative journalist Amanda Sperber back to the program to talk about her recent Baffler article "Prelude to a Redeployment - Listening for signs of the Americans in Kismayo, Somalia." After the interview we present a brand new Moment of Truth with Jeff Dorchen, and declare the winning answer to this week's Question from Hell!.
https://thebaffler.com/latest/prelude-to-a-redeployment-sperber
Sociologist Raul Perez talks about his book "The Souls of White Jokes: How Racist Humor Fuels White Supremacy," we have this week in Rotten History, and read more of your answers to this week's Question from Hell!.
We welcome Gerald Horne back to the show to talk about most recent book "The Counter-Revolution of 1836 - Texas Slavery & Jim Crow and the Roots of U.S. Fascism." Stay tuned and learn of this week's whale-snack sized hangover cure, hear this week's Question from Hell!, and learn from Seb's Soapbox about some of the origins of Whiteness.
We welcome legal scholar and lawyer William E. Forbath to the program to talk about his book "The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution." Chuck muses about 26 years of running God's favorite radio program with Jeff Dorchen in this week's Moment of Truth, and we declare the winning answer to this week's Question from Hell!
We welcome law scholars Dre Cummings and Kalvin Graham to talk about their work published in Tulsa Law Review about the relationship between race massacres and capitalism. We also have This Week in Rotten History, and more of your answers to this week's Question from Hell!
We welcome Dean Starkman of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists to talk about the coverage of the Uber Files, detailing the misdealings and corruption that the rideshare giant engages in. Producer Seb Wuepper gets on his soapbox to talk about the old question whether or not the United States is a democracy, we present your hangover cure for this week, and also introduce this week's Question from Hell!
Producer Lindsey introduces a 2015 interview with anthropologist Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Jeff Dorchen delivers another Moment of (Super)Truth on a flashforward seance in the stone age, and we declare the winning answer to this week's Question from Hell!.
Producer Dan Hill presents a 2017 interview with writer and medical sociologist Zoe Samudzi and activist William C. Anderson on their piece "The Anarchism of Blackness" piece in Roar Magazine. Dan also has this week in Rotten History, and reads more of the listeners' answers to this week's Question from Hell!. https://roarmag.org/magazine/black-liberation-anti-fascism/
Producer Seb hijacks the studio for a soapbox-y episode while Chuck recuperates from surgery. Seb gets on his soapbox to question what, if anything, the Nazis can teach us, and plays a 2019 interview on capitalism and forced, migrant labor with writer and housing advocate Richard Hunsinger. We also have an all new Question from Hell! with some replies from the listening audience.
Producer Dan presents an October 2017 interview with Ajamu Nangwaya and Kali Akuno from Cooperation Jackson, talking about retaking democracy for the people and how to build functional, bottom-up cooperation. Jeff Dorchen presents this week's Moment of (SUPER!)Truth, and Dan declares a winning answer to this week's Question from Hell!
Chuck is out, preparing for surgery, so cross your fingers and send good vibes. Inspired by the preceding episode's new interview with Kate Manne, producer Lindsey plays the 2017 interview with her on her book "Down, Girl - The Logic of Misogyny." We also have this week in Rotten History, and Lindsey reads more answers to this week's Question from Hell!
We welcome writer and philosophy scholar at Cornell University, Kate Manne. Kate talks about her Substack article "Criminalizing Pregnant People: A Brief Retrospective." We present this week's Hangover Cure, as well as the newest installment of Seb's Soapbox, where our resident historian producer takes the Turner Thesis to task.
Jon Schwarz talks about his Intercept article "Right-Wing Supreme Court Continues Its “Great Fraud” About the Second Amendment." We also hear from Jeff Dorchen in this week's Moment of Truth about a new UFO conspiracy, and we announce this week's winning answer to the Question from Hell!
We welcome political theorist and legal scholar Zachari Manfredi to talk about his Boston Review article "Radicalizing Human Rights." Then we have more of your answers to this week's Question from Hell!, as well this week's installment of Rotten History.
https://bostonreview.net/articles/radicalizing-human-rights/
Chuck welcomes Spencer Roberts, science writer and contributor to Jacobin Magazine, the Intercept, Wired, and others to the program to talk about his research into the looming extinction of the Mexican grey wolf, a species whose repopuluation efforts are endangered by corrupt government officials, and greedy cattle ranchers. We also have this week's hangover cure, a new Question from Hell!, and producer Seb steps on his soapbox, fighting the misconception that things keep always getting better.
Chuck talks to freelance writer, journalist, and Wire contributor Kamala Thiagarajan about her Wired.com article "India is Not Prepared for the Combination of Heat and Humidity." Jeff Dorchen reveals the Super Truth(R), and we announce this week's winning answer to the Question from Hell!.
Latin Americanist Susan Paulson talks about the necessity of degrowth and how to get the concept across to people who may not have much of an immediate interest in it.
Latin Americanist Susan Paulson returns to the show to talk about her contributions to the collected edition "Degrowth & Strategy" published by Degrowth Vienna. Producer Sebastian steps on his soapbox to talk about how our understanding of past sexuality is likely wrong. Answers to this week's Question from Hell! are read and hilarity ensues.
Chuck welcomes Reece Jones to the show to talk about his book "Nobody Is Protected: How the Border Patrol Became the Most Dangerous Police Force in the United States." We have your weekly Hangover Cure, this week in Rotten History as well as a brand new Question from Hell!
Chuck welcomes back This is Hell! Brazil correspondent and writer for Brazilwire, and Telesur English, Brian Mier to talk about the upcoming elections in Brazil and the possibility of a coup by far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro. Jeff Dorchen basks in the glory of the Jan 6 Insurrection Show, and we declare the winning answer to this week's Question from Hell!
Chuck welcomes historian Donna Murch to talk about her book "Assata Taught Me: State Violence, Mass Incarceration, and the Movement for Black Lives." We have this week in Rotten History, and new answers to this week's Question from Hell!
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1650-assata-taught-me
Independent scholar Laura Basu talks bout her OpenDemocracy article "Attention Deficit Disorder - The Anticapitalist Condition."
Chuck welcomes economics editor and scholar at the University of Utrecht Laura Basu to talk her OpenDemocracy article "Attention Deficit Disorder, the Anticapitalist Condition." We present this week's hangover cure, and producer Seb gets on his soapbox to talk about why hero worship is dangerous in democratic societies.
Chuck is taking a sick day, so Producer Dan plays a 2020 interview with environmental scholar Giorgos Kallis and with Latin Americanist Susan Paulson on their book "The Case for Degrowth."
https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=the-case-for-degrowth--9781509535620
Scholar, writer, professor, and cultural critic Henry Giroux talks to Chuck about his recent Counterpunch magazine article "Targeting Children - Killing Fields in the Age of Mass Shootings." Seb gets on his soapbox for a lesson on why people doing monstrous things should never be denied their humanity.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/05/31/targeting-children-killing-fields-in-the-age-of-mass-shootings/
Adrian Shirk talks to Chuck about her book "Heaven is a Place on Earth: Searching for American Utopia." In a Moment of Truth Jeff Dorchen takes the Party of Manson Family Values to task. A winner of the weekly Question from Hell! is chosen.
Legal scholar Joseph Marguelies talks to Chuck about his Boston Review article "A Path to Neighborhood Power." We have new answers to this week's Question from Hell!, and other shenanigans.
Political scholar Aasim Sajjad Akhtar talks to Chuck about his Catlyst Journal article "Breaking Afghanistan." We also have a new Rotten History, and your weekly Hangover Cure.
https://catalyst-journal.com/2022/03/breaking-afghanistan
Chuck interviews, Dominic Boyer, professor of anthropology at Rice University and Berggruen Institute fellow, who wrote the Noema Magazine article "Why We Have To Give Up On Endless Economic Growth." Jeff Dorchen is doing some deep brooding in a brand new Moment of Truth. A winner is declared for the weekly Question from Hell!
Chuck is back! He welcomes writer, activist, and co-founder of the Los Angeles Tenants Union Tracy Rosenthal, who wrote the New Republic article "Inside L.A.'s Homeless Industrial Complex"
Also: A new Rotten History, and a new Hangover Cure, and a new Question from Hell!
https://newrepublic.com/article/166383/los-angeles-echo-park-homeless-industrial-complex
Producer Sebastian muses on origin and utility of racial categories and introduces a 2019 interview with writer Ben Ehrenreich explains how Enlightenment-era ideas of progress and Western civilization collapsed time and space around the bumbling, destructive European ideology of early capitalism, and why those ideas still mis-guide the bumbling, destructive European ideology of late capitalism on a dying planet.
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/after-the-storm-ehrenreich
Producer Lindsey introduces a 2017 interview with Journalist Sharon Lerner, who reports on the Exxon Mobil refinery polluting the majority-black Charlton-Pollard neighborhood of Beaumont, Texas, and the poisonous, 14 year silence from the EPA after the citizens' civil rights complaint, and connects the mechanisms of environmental racism to a history (and present) of regulatory rollbacks and industry noncompliance in powerless communities across the country.
Producer Dan introduces an interview with African American studies scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor who in her book "Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership" examines the mechanism of racism in the American real estate industry - as post-1968 public policies pushed Black renters and homeowners into a racially stratified, predatory housing market without Civil Rights protection, a predatory inclusion took shape, funneling wealth into private industry and foreclosing the futures of Black families for decades to come.
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469653662/race-for-profit/
Chuck is back live in studio for his first full interview in two months, welcoming back independent journalist and writer Alexander Zaitchik, who wrote the book "Owning the Sun - A People's History of Monopoly Medicine from Aspirin to COVID-19 Vaccines." Chuck and Alexander talk about medical monopolies, the role people like Bill Gates and Joe Biden play in keeping medical patents in place, and why this makes the world sicker and poorer. It is a new week, so we have a new Question from Hell! as well as a new Hangover Cure and an all new Rotten History!
https://www.counterpointpress.com/dd-product/owning-the-sun/
Black Agenda Report's Danny Haiphong examines the lies at the root of the story America tells itself - as the corporate media obscures the reality of social relations at the base of American power, our collective notions of exceptionalism and innocence mask the exploitation that occurs around us everyday, and the exploiting class at the top of American society.
In a brand new Moment of Truth Jeff Dorchen takes the Catholic Fascist United States Supreme Court Justices to court.
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/American-Exceptionalism-and-American-Innocence/Roberto-Sirvent/9781510742369
https://abortionfunds.org/funds/
Writer DaMaris Hill traces a history, and present, of Black women imprisoned in America - under a parallel regime of sexual violence and exploitation in the Jim Crow era and beyond, subject to the edges of a legal and economic system built on repression, risking freedom and safety in the simple acts of navigating daily life in a racist country.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/a-bound-woman-is-a-dangerous-thing-9781635572629/
https://abortionfunds.org/funds/
Producer Dan presents a 2019 interview with organizer Jenny Brown who examines the long history and present politics of the fight for abortions in America, and explains why the left must be clear and honest about abortion - as an unrestricted right, as a social service to be included in national healthcare, and as an unfinished front of the feminist revolution.
https://www.versobooks.com/books/3095-without-apology
https://abortionfunds.org/funds/
Alex plays two interviews with Black Agenda Report founders Bruce Dixon (Jan 2017) and Glen Ford (Dec 2008)
Producer Sebastian presents a June 2020 interview with Writer Connor Woodman on his Verso blog series "The Imperial Boomerang" and in a new segment, Sebastian gets on his soapbox and lectures about the history of abortion rights and the anti-abortion right in the United States.
https://www.versobooks.com/blogs?tag=375
Abortion rights:
https://billmoyers.com/story/history-of-abortion-law-america/ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/sep/08/abortion-us-religious-right-racial-segregation
https://abortionfunds.org/funds/
Writer Jessa Crispin rejects today's mainstreamed, neoliberal feminism, and calls for a return to feminism's radical promise: as a sharp-edged, outsider's social critique, as a challenge to the supremacy of capitalism, and as a path towards a radically reorganized society.
https://www.mhpbooks.com/books/why-i-am-not-a-feminist/
https://abortionfunds.org/funds/
Producer Dan presents a 2018 interview Chuck conducted with the amazing multi talented artist Boots Riley prompted by the release of his movie "Sorry to Bother You."
Also due to the current news surrounding the United States Supreme Court's impending overturning of Roe v. Wade and the coming outlawing of abortions, here is a link to the National Abortion Fund where you can find a local fund to contribute to. https://abortionfunds.org/about/abortion-funds-101/
Writer Asad Haider explains how today's reductive form of identity politics acts as an obstacle to understanding and confronting oppression. FIRST BROADCAST: June 2018.
Political scientist Cedric Johnson examines the collisions of race, class, policing and activism in the wake of George Floyd's murder, and explains why the Democratic Party and capital threaten to co-opt and re-direct the protest movement's energy unless it commits to a politics of redistribution and power for the working class.
https://nonsite.org/the-triumph-of-black-lives-matter-and-neoliberal-redemption/
Anthropologist James Doucet-Battle on sugar, diabetes, racialized science and his book "Sweetness in the Blood: Race, Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes" from University of Minnesota Press.
https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/sweetness-in-the-blood
Dan replays two interviews Chuck did with the late, great David Graeber, the first about his book on bureaucracy "The Utopia of Rules," the second on the book "Bullshit Jobs."
https://www.mhpbooks.com/books/the-utopia-of-rules/
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Bullshit-Jobs/David-Graeber/9781501143335
Alex replays Chuck's Oct 2021 conversation with writer Panashe Chigumadzi on her article "The Cry of Black Worldlessness" for Africa Is A Country.
https://africasacountry.com/2021/10/the-cry-of-black-worldlessness
Writer adrienne maree brown explores the radical, liberatory potential of pleasure - to reclaim the self from the bounds of oppression, to restore our relationships with other people and the planet, and to imagine (and inhabit) the future worlds we hope to win with our activism.
adrienne is author of the book Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good from AK Press.
https://www.akpress.org/pleasure-activism.html
Anthropologist Sarah Ihmoud on the dynamics of colonialist violence and domination against indigenous people in Palestine and across the globe, connecting those struggles across borders, and her article Sheikh Jarrah: The Question Before Us for Jadaliyya.
https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/42757/Sheikh-Jarrah-The-Question-Before-Us
In another This is Limbo! episode, producer Sebastian muses about what drives fascism and presents two interviews, one with Antidote writer Ed Sutton and one with political analyst Natasha Lennard who both mused on these very questions themselves.
Alex replays Chuck's interview with theorist Jodi Dean on her book "Crowds and Party" from Verso Books. [First broadcast January 23 2016]
Sebastian replays Chuck's interview with historian Trevor Griffey on his article "A New Deal for College Teachers and Teaching" written with Mia McIver for the American Association of University Professors website, and in an ALL NEW Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen introduces The Other White Pride: Calcium. [Griffey interview first broadcast May 4, 2021]
https://www.aaup.org/article/new-deal-college-teachers-and-teaching
Dan replays interviews with Gary Brecher (The War Nerd) and Mark Ames. [First broadcast Oct 20 2012 and April 30 2011]
Lindsey replays artist Cassie Thornton explores the revolutionary potential of The Hologram - a peer-to-peer system of care between people as equals in an unequal society. [First broadcast August 4, 2020]
Chuck returns! Plus Producer Alex replays Assistant Public Defender Adofo Minka on prisoner uprisings in St. Louis and across the United States [First broadcast April 29, 2021]
Writer and Activist Hadas Thier talks to Chuck about her Dollars & Sense Article "Cryptocurrency Will Not Liberate Us." Jeff Dorchen sees a phantom. Or was it a famine? Everyone wrestles with how to pronounce "paczki."
http://dollarsandsense.org/archives/2022/0122thier.html
Writer Mary Jane Gibson on her article "Inside California's Cannabis Crisis" for Rolling Stone.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/california-weed-cannabis-crisis-emerald-triangle-1302545/
Immigration lawyer Daniel Melo on his article "The Capitalist Imperative Driving Cruel and Bipartisan US Migration Policies" for Black Agenda Report.
https://blackagendareport.com/capitalist-imperative-driving-cruel-and-bipartisan-us-migration-policies
Writer Os Keyes on their Real Life article "Condition Critical," and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen flags your non-Jewish privilege.
https://reallifemag.com/condition-critical/
Writer Daniel Fernandez on his article "The Classroom and the Cell" for The Baffler.
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-classroom-and-the-cell-fernandez
Sociologist Elijah Anderson on his book "Black in White Space: The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life" from University of Chicago Press.
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo119245209.html
Historian Daniel Immerwahr on his Guardian article "‘A deranged pyroscape’: how fires across the world have grown weirder" and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen bites the handbook that feeds.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/03/a-deranged-pyroscape-how-fires-across-the-world-have-grown-weirder
Historian Hannah Farber on her book "Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding" from the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press.
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469663630/underwriters-of-the-united-states/
Writer Nathanael Johnson on his report "How a $60 million bribery scandal helped Ohio pass the ‘worst energy policy in the country’" for Grist.
https://grist.org/politics/how-a-60-million-bribery-scandal-helped-ohio-pass-the-worst-energy-policy-in-the-country/
Urban planning scholar Deyanira Nevárez Martínez on her paper "Homelessness in Southern California: Street-Level Encounters with the State and the Structural Violence of Performative Productivity" for Radical Housing Journal, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen takes sides in the Werewolf vs Vampire war.
https://radicalhousingjournal.org/2021/homelessness-in-southern-california/
Historian Helen Anne Curry on her book "Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction" from University of California Press.
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520307698/endangered-maize
Historian Catherine McNicol Stock on her article “Is the rally really worth it?” The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and the Costs of Neoliberalism" for OSU Origins.
https://origins.osu.edu/index.php/read/south-dakota-sturgis-motorcycle-rally-neoliberalism
Kevin Klyman on his article "Vaccine Apartheid Has Reinforced US Empire" for Jacobin, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen continues to try to spread positivity.
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2022/01/vaccine-apartheid-us-empire-diplomacy-china-cold-war
Environmental studies scholar Ashwin Ravikumar on his article "To Save the Rainforests, Provide Healthcare, Education and Services for Those Who Protect Them" for The Trouble.
https://www.the-trouble.com/content/2022/1/17/to-save-the-rainforests-provide-healthcare-education-and-services-for-those-who-protect-them
Writer Corey Pein on his article "Dawn of the Space Lords" for The Baffler.
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/dawn-of-the-space-lords-pein
Journalist Paolo Sorbello on his article "‘Our activism won't stop': The Oyan movement recounts the January protests in Kazakhstan" for Global Voices, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen tangles with all-pervasive networks.
https://globalvoices.org/2022/01/14/our-activism-wont-stop-the-oyan-movement-recounts-the-january-protests-in-kazakhstan/
Writer Roberto Lovato on his article "The Gentrification of Consciousness" for Alta Journal.
https://www.altaonline.com/dispatches/a38326035/psychedelic-drugs-gentrification-roberto-lovato/
Sociologist Amy Cooter on her article "Citizen Militias in the U.S. Are Moving toward More Violent Extremism" for Scientific American.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/citizen-militias-in-the-u-s-are-moving-toward-more-violent-extremism/
Jeff Nesbit on his article "How Big Oil Rigs the System to Keep Winning," co-written with Naomi Oreskes for Covering Climate Now / Gizmodo, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen surrenders to his happy place.
https://gizmodo.com/how-big-oil-rigs-the-system-to-keep-winning-1848180128
Law scholar John R. Brooks on his article "The Big Student Loan Lie" for The American Prospect.
https://prospect.org/education/big-student-loan-lie/
Cultural critic Henry Giroux on his article "Amid Apocalyptic Cynicism, Let’s Embrace Radical Hope in the New Year" for Truthout.
https://truthout.org/articles/amid-apocalyptic-cynicism-lets-embrace-radical-hope-in-the-new-year/
Writer Aaron Vansintjan on his essay "Faith in a frail world" for Uneven Earth, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen's forbidden words for this year are all numbers.
http://unevenearth.org/2021/12/faith-in-a-frail-world/
Historian Nicholas Mulder on his book "The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War" from Yale University Press.
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300259360/economic-weapon
Historian Peter James Hudson on his essay "Frederick Douglass and American Empire in Haiti" for Boston Review.
https://bostonreview.net/articles/frederick-douglass-and-american-empire-in-haiti/
Journalist Alexander Zaitchik on his article "How Bill Gates Impeded Global Access to Covid Vaccines" for The New Republic. Suggested by Rocktaster and David G.
April conversation with Craig Robertson on his book "The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information" from University of Minnesota Press. Suggested by David G. and Braden S.
October interview with writer Adam Zmith on his book "Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures" from Repeater Books. Suggested by Jeff, Braden and David G.
April conversation with writer Ben Ehrenreich on his article "We're Hurtling Toward Global Suicide" for The New Republic. Suggested by Joel and Pete.
July conversation with writer Tanvi Misra on her article "Broader Crises" for The Baffler. Suggested by Jeff G, David G. and Derek B.
April interview with economist James K. Galbraith on his article "Who's Afraid of MMT?" for Project Syndicate. Suggested by listeners Joel G. and Koffie.
April interview with journalist Cerise Castle on her investigative series "A Tradition of Violence: The History of Deputy Gangs in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department" for Knock LA. Suggested by David G and Jeff D.
January interview with sociologist Mimi Sheller on her book "Island Futures: Caribbean Survival in the Anthropocene" from Duke University Press. Suggested by Jenica and Chuck.
July conversation with writer Chris Tomlinson on his book "Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth," co-written with Bryan Burrough and Jason Stanford for Penguin Press. Suggested by Wally, Joel and Mark.
Writer David Dayen on his article "The Great Escape" for The American Prospect, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen picks egg over chicken.
https://prospect.org/labor/great-escape-why-workers-quitting-pandemic-trauma/
Max Liboiron on their article "Decolonizing geoscience requires more than equity and inclusion" for Nature Geoscience.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-021-00861-7
Writer Martin Billheimer on his book "Mother Chicago: Truant Dreams and Specters Over the Gilded Age" from Feral House.
https://feralhouse.com/mother-chicago/
Chelsea Barabas on her article "Hall Monitors" for Real Life, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen rings down the curtain on 2021.
https://reallifemag.com/hall-monitors/
Journalist Tony Briscoe on his ProPublica article "Conservationists See Rare Nature Sanctuaries. Black Farmers See a Legacy Bought Out From Under Them."
https://www.propublica.org/article/conservationists-see-rare-nature-sanctuaries-black-farmers-see-a-legacy-bought-out-from-under-them
Journalist Ava Kofman on the ProPublica report "Poison in the Air," co-written with Lylla Younes, Al Shaw and Lisa Song, with additional reporting by Maya Miller and photography by Kathleen Flynn.
https://www.propublica.org/article/toxmap-poison-in-the-air
Magdi el-Gizouli on his article "Counterrevolution in Sudan" for Spectre Journal, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen has a theory about drunk cave people.
https://spectrejournal.com/counterrevolution-in-sudan/
Farmer c.e. on her article "Farming In the Shadow of the Shadow State" for The New Inquiry.
https://thenewinquiry.com/farming-in-the-shadow-of-the-shadow-state/
Neil Vallelly on his book "Futilitarianism: Neoliberalism and the Production of Uselessness" from MIT Press.
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/futilitarianism
Journalists Alex Tumuhimbise and Emily Holden on the article "No power to stop it’: optimism turns to frustration over east Africa pipeline" for The Guardian, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen asks, "aside from the way things are, what do we really have to complain about?"
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/07/no-power-to-stop-it-optimism-turns-to-frustration-over-east-africa-pipeline
Historian Kyle T. Mays on his book "An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States" from Beacon Press.
http://www.beacon.org/An-Afro-Indigenous-History-of-the-United-States-P1731.aspx
Journalist Isiah Holmes on his article "How Kenosha PD and the FBI received Wisconsin’s BLM protester list" for the Wisconsin Examiner.
https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2021/11/10/how-kenosha-pd-and-the-fbi-received-wisconsins-blm-protester-list/
Writer Michael Barajas on the report "Locked Up and Left to Die," co-written with Sophie Novack for the Texas Observer.
https://www.texasobserver.org/locked-up-and-left-to-die/
Organizer Jasson Perez on the article "Crumbs and Police Funding?: Assessing the New Chicago Budget," co-written with brian bean and Bettina J for Rampant, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen envisions your goals.
https://rampantmag.com/2021/11/crumbs-and-police-funding-assessing-the-new-chicago-budget/
Writer Ajay Singh Chaudhary on his article "The Extractive Circuit" for The Baffler.
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-extractive-circuit-singh-chaudhary
Journalist Jérôme Tubiana on his article "Land of Thirst" for The Baffler.
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/land-of-thirst-tubiana
The Transnational Institute's Nick Buxton on the report "Global Climate Wall" and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen judges a costume contest.
https://www.tni.org/en/publication/global-climate-wall
Alessandro Delfanti on his book "The Warehouse: Workers and Robots at Amazon" from Pluto Press.
https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745342177/the-warehouse/
Economist Rob Larson on his Current Affairs article "How Serious is the Inflation Situation?" and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen decodes a MAGA secret.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/10/how-serious-is-the-inflation-situation
Writer Adam Zmith on his book "Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures" from Repeater Books.
https://repeaterbooks.com/product/deep-sniff-a-history-of-poppers-and-queer-futures/
Historian Warren Eugene Milteer Jr. on his book "Beyond Slavery's Shadow: Free People of Color in the South" from University of North Carolina Press.
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469664392/beyond-slaverys-shadow/
Writer Panashe Chigumadzi on her article "The Cry of Black Worldlessness" for Africa Is A Country, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen looks back at some predictions.
https://africasacountry.com/2021/10/the-cry-of-black-worldlessness
Historian Emily K. Abel on her book "Sick and Tired: An Intimate History of Fatigue" from University of North Carolina Press.
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469663340/sick-and-tired/
Judith Levine on her article "Abortion is a Public Good" for Boston Review, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen agrees that the Big Coin should drop.
https://bostonreview.net/law-justice-gender-sexuality/judith-levine-abortion-public-good
Chuck Collins on the IPS report "Silver spoon oligarchs: How America’s 50 Largest Inherited-Wealth Dynasties Accelerate Inequality."
https://ips-dc.org/report-americas-wealth-dynasties-2021/
Kay Whitlock and Nancy A. Heitzeg on their book "Carceral Con: The Deceptive Terrain of Criminal Justice Reform" from University of California Press.
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520343474/carceral-con
Journalist Michael Hudson on the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists's massive Pandora Papers investigation, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen identifies a heinous example of "Missing White Woman Syndrome Derangement Syndrome."
https://www.icij.org/investigations/pandora-papers/
Sociologist Stellan Vinthagen on his article "The ZAD: between utopian radicalism and negotiated pragmatism," co-written with Fareen Parvez for ROAR Magazine.
https://roarmag.org/essays/zad-radicalism-pragmatism/
Sylvia Kay and Hamza Hamouchene on the report "Towards a Just Recovery from the Covid-19 Crisis: The urgent struggle for food sovereignty in North Africa" for Transnational Institute.
https://www.tni.org/en/publication/towards-a-just-recovery-from-the-covid-19-crisis
Kelly Grotke on her article "The Failure of Financialized Higher Ed" for The American Prospect, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen must look back on a piece of theater he never saw.
https://prospect.org/education/failure-of-financialized-higher-ed/
Writer Max Haiven on his book "Revenge Capitalism: The Ghosts of Empire, the Demons of Capital, & the Settling of Unpayable Debts" from Pluto Press.
http://www.plutobooks.com/9780745340562/revenge-capitalism/
Historian Molly A. Warsh on her book "American Baroque: Pearls and the Nature of Empire, 1492-1700" from UNC Press.
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469666259/american-baroque/
Journalist Zachariah Hughes on his three-part series "The Last Wild Kings: A World Without Salmon?" for Anchorage Daily News and the Pulitzer Center.
https://pulitzercenter.org/projects/last-wild-kings-world-without-salmon
Kristy Nabhan-Warren on her book "Meatpacking America: How Migration, Work, and Faith Unite and Divide the Heartland" from UNC Press.
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469663494/meatpacking-america/
Historian Suzanne Schneider on her book "The Apocalypse and the End of History: Modern Jihad and the Crisis of Liberalism" from Verso Books.
https://www.versobooks.com/authors/2565-suzanne-schneider
Journalist Joseph Bernstein on his report "Bad News" for Harper's.
https://harpers.org/archive/2021/09/bad-news-selling-the-story-of-disinformation/
Bree Busk on her article "Defending the legacy of Chile’s 2019 uprising" for ROAR Magazine.
https://roarmag.org/essays/chile-constitutional-convention-loncon/
James Gustave Speth on his book "They Knew: The US Federal Government's Fifty-Year Role in Causing the Climate Crisis" from MIT Press, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen gets to the power-bottom of Ripley.
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/they-knew
Writer Keith Rosenthal on his article "Carceral Histories of Disability:An Abolitionist Analysis" for Spectre Journal.
https://spectrejournal.com/carceral-histories-of-disability-an-abolitionist-analysis/
Global health scholar Anne Pollock on her book "Sickening: Anti-Black Racism and Health Disparities in the United States" from The University of Minnesota Press.
https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/sickening
Historian Edward J. Watts on his book "The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea" from Oxford University Press.
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-eternal-decline-and-fall-of-rome-9780190076719?cc=us⟨=en&
Writer and researcher Martine van Bijlert on her articles "The Taleban leadership converges on Kabul as remnants of the republic reposition themselves" and "Afghanistan Has a New Government: The country wonders what the new normal will look like" for The Afghanistan Analysts Network.
https://www.afghanistan-analysts.org/en/reports/war-and-peace/the-taleban-leadership-converges-on-kabul-as-the-remnants-of-the-republic-try-to-reposition-themselves/
https://www.afghanistan-analysts.org/en/reports/war-and-peace/afghanistan-has-a-new-government-the-country-wonders-what-the-new-normal-will-look-like/
Writer Geo Maher on his book "A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete" from Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/books/3783-a-world-without-police
Writer Niall Reddy on his article "A terrifying vision of South Africa’s future" for Africa Is A Country, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen seeks relief in our nation's capital.
https://africasacountry.com/2021/08/a-terrifying-vision-of-south-africas-future
Historian A.S. Dillingham on his book "Oaxaca Resurgent: Indigeneity, Development, and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Mexico" from Stanford University Press.
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=29754
Political scientist Paul A. Passavant on his book "Policing Protest: The Post-Democratic State and the Figure of Black Insurrection" from Duke University Press.
https://www.dukeupress.edu/policing-protest
Sebijan Fejzula on her essay "The Roma struggle from protests to political liberation" for ROAR Magazine.
https://roarmag.org/essays/roma-protest-political-agenda/
Writer Avi Garelick on his article "The Violence is the Point" for Hypocrite Reader.
http://hypocritereader.com/98/violence-is-the-point
International studies scholar Jorge Majfud on his article "Cuba and the US: The Difference Between Dictatorship and Tyranny" for Common Dreams.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/07/20/cuba-and-us-difference-between-dictatorship-and-tyranny
Journalist Jocelyn C. Zuckerman on her book "Planet Palm: How Palm Oil Ended Up in Everything—and Endangered the World" from The New Press.
https://thenewpress.com/books/planet-palm
Artist Christina Conklin on her new book "The Atlas of Disappearing Places: Our Coasts and Oceans in the Climate Crisis," co-written with Marina Psaros for The New Press.
https://thenewpress.com/books/atlas-of-disappearing-places
Haiti Action Committee's Seth Donnelly on Haitian politics and US / Western imperialism, and his article "The Assassination of Jovenel Moise: What Next for Haiti?" for Black Agenda Report, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen gives an avowed centrist a lesson in radical socialist leisurism
https://blackagendareport.com/assassination-jovenel-moise-what-next-haiti
Writer Panos Theodoropoulos on neoliberal worker identity, building a social commons to challenge capital's grasp, and his article "Rituals of submission: Amazon’s creation of the neoliberal worker" for ROAR Magazine.
https://roarmag.org/essays/amazon-neoliberal-worker/
Writer Keir Milburn on conceptions of freedom in an unequal society, pandemic lockdowns and the climate crises to come, and his article "‘Freedom Day’ Won’t Set Us Free" for Novara.
https://novaramedia.com/2021/07/19/freedom-day-wont-set-us-free/
Writer Tanvi Misra on her article "Broader Crises" for The Baffler.
https://thebaffler.com/latest/broader-crises-misra
São Paulo correspondent Brian Mier on his Brasilwire article "Covid 19 Scandal: Brazilian Military Threatens Senate" and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen tries to tame taboos with internet knowledge.
https://www.brasilwire.com/covid-19-scandal-brazilian-military-threatens-senate/
Political ecologist Maywa Montenegro de Wit on her book "Abolitionist Agroecology, Food Sovereignty and Pandemic Prevention" from Daraja Press and Monthly Review.
https://darajapress.com/publication/abolitionist-agroecology-food-sovereignty-and-pandemic-prevention
Writer Brad Evans on his book "Ecce Humanitas: Beholding the Pain of Humanity" from Columbia University Press.
http://cup.columbia.edu/book/ecce-humanitas/9780231184632
Historian Gabriel Winant on his book "The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America" from Harvard University Press.
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674238091
Writer Tarence Ray on his Baffler article "United in Rage" and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen eats from the poison tree.
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/united-in-rage-ray
Writer Chris Tomlinson on his book "Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth," co-written with Bryan Burrough and Jason Stanford for Penguin Press.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/623832/forget-the-alamo-by-bryan-burrough-chris-tomlinson-and-jason-stanford/
Writer Rohan Rice on his article "Hunger and food production in Nicaragua: how do we feed the people?" for People's Dispatch.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2021/06/27/hunger-and-food-production-in-nicaragua-how-do-we-feed-the-people/
Economist Robin Hahnel on his book "Democratic Economic Planning" from Routledge, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen tries to pull magic out of a hat.
https://www.routledge.com/Democratic-Economic-Planning/Hahnel/p/book/9781032003320
Economist Robin Hahnel on the roots of the 2008 financial crisis, and reactions from the political establishment.
[We had Robin scheduled for today but Chuck got sick - rescheduling don't worry!]
Two archive interviews on Israel's occupation of Palestine and growing right-wing political movement with Eyal Weizman and Gregory Levey.
Writer Brian Justie on his article "The Nonmachinables" for Logic Magazine, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen's coming for dinner.
https://logicmag.io/distribution/the-nonmachinables/
Journalist Cole Stangler on his article "U.S. Sanctions on Cuba and Venezuela Hamper the Global Fight Against Covid-19" for The Intercept.
https://theintercept.com/2021/06/18/covid-vaccine-cuba-venezuela-sanctions/
Historian Carol Anderson on her book "The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America" from Bloomsbury.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-second-9781635574258/
Historian Juan Cole on his articles "What does the election of hard liner Raisi in Iran mean for Mideast Flashpoints?" and "Israel’s New Secular Government: Lieberman Crows that he Sidelined Fundamentalist Ultra-Orthodox and, read his lips: “No new taxes”" for Informed Comment.
https://www.juancole.com/author/jcedit
Sociologist Caitlin Schroering on her article "Inside the struggle for water sovereignty in Brazil" for ROAR Magazine, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen inspects the foundation of The House of Bad Opinions.
https://roarmag.org/essays/brazil-mab-water-sovereignty/
Law scholar Madison Condon on her Boston Review article "Climate Change’s New Ally: Big Finance" for Boston Review.
http://bostonreview.net/science-nature/madison-condon-climate-change%E2%80%99s-new-ally-big-finance
Sociologist Max Ajl on his new book "A People’s Green New Deal" from Pluto Press.
http://www.plutobooks.com/9780745341750/a-peoples-green-new-deal/
Writer Erica X Eisen on her article "The Other Nuremberg Trials, Seventy-Five Years On" for Boston Review, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen takes us to the depths of glory.
https://bostonreview.net/class-inequality-law-justice/erica-x-eisen-other-nuremberg-trials-seventy-five-years
Evolutionary epidemiologist Rob Wallace on pandemic politics, vaccines, variants, mask laws and the end - or middle - of COVID-19.
Read Rob's writing at https://www.patreon.com/robwallace
Writer Jacqueline Keeler on her book "Standing Rock, the Bundy Movement, and the American Story of Sacred Lands" from Torrey House Press.
https://www.torreyhouse.org/standoff
Journalist Mara Hvistendahl on her article "Oracle Boasted That Its Software Was Used Against U.S. Protesters. Then It Took the Tech to China." for The Intercept.
https://theintercept.com/2021/05/25/oracle-social-media-surveillance-protests-endeca/
Philosopher Rocío Zambrana on her book "Colonial Debts: The Case of Puerto Rico" from Duke University Press, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen publicly shames himself.
https://www.dukeupress.edu/colonial-debts
Literary theorist Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht on his book "Crowds: The Stadium as a Ritual of Intensity" from Stanford University Press.
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=33653
Anthropologist Sarah Ihmoud on her article "Sheikh Jarrah: The Question Before Us" for Jadaliyya, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen goes über-Hollywood.
https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/42757/Sheikh-Jarrah-The-Question-Before-Us
Sociologist Spencer Headworth on his book "Policing Welfare: Punitive Adversarialism in Public Assistance" from University of Chicago Press.
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo88749892.html
Media studies scholar Craig Robertson on his book "The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information" from University of Minnesota Press.
https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-filing-cabinet
Attorney Mark P. Fancher on his article "The USA – Immoral, Illegal, Irredeemable, and Irrelevant to Global Africa’s Liberation Struggle" for Black Agenda Report.
https://blackagendareport.com/usa-immoral-illegal-irredeemable-and-irrelevantto-global-africas-liberation-struggle
Writer Daniela Ochoa-Bravo on her article "When Climate Disaster and Mass Incarceration Collide" for In These Times, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen goes back to disputed territory.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/climate-disaster-mass-incarceration-prison-florida-environment
Religious studies scholar Rebecca C. Bartel on her book "Card-Carrying Christians: Debt and the Making of Free Market Spirituality in Colombia" from University of California Press.
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520380028/card-carrying-christians
Janina Hirth + Markus Rhein on their article "Algorithmic assembly lines: Digitalization and resistance in the retail sector" for The Transnational Institute.
https://longreads.tni.org/algorithmic-assembly-lines-digitalization-and-resistance-in-the-retail-sector
Urban planning scholar Alejandra Marín Buitrago on her article "Colombia on the Brink" for Counterpunch.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/05/07/colombia-on-the-brink/
Writer Rona Lorimer on her article "Pity the Poor Police: New Laws to Back the Blue" via The Brooklyn Rail, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen reviews a record, as a last request.
https://brooklynrail.org/2021/05/field-notes/Pity-the-Poor-Police-New-Laws-to-Back-the-Blue
Historian Matthew D. Lassiter on his multimedia exhibit "Detroit Under Fire: Police Violence, Crime Politics, and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Civil Rights Era" and article "Police and the License to Kill" for Boston Review.
https://policing.umhistorylabs.lsa.umich.edu/s/detroitunderfire/page/home
https://bostonreview.net/race/matthew-d-lassiter-police-and-license-kill
Sayandeb Chowdhury and Rajendran Narayanan on their article "A made-in-India shock doctrine, with a little help from Latin America" for Monthly Review.
https://mronline.org/2021/04/27/a-made-in-india-shock-doctrine-with-a-little-help-from-latin-america/
Africana studies scholar Yannick Giovanni Marshall on his op-ed "Totalitarianism at 38th and Chicago: A Minnesotan lie" for Al Jazeera English, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen gives a Baby Talk.
https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/opinions/2021/4/21/totalitarianism-at-38th-and-chicago-a-minnesotan-lie
Historian Trevor Griffey on his article "A New Deal for College Teachers and Teaching" written with Mia McIver for the American Association of University Professors website.
https://www.aaup.org/article/new-deal-college-teachers-and-teaching
Writer Robert P. Baird on his article "The Invention of Whiteness: A Long History of a Dangerous Idea" for The Guardian.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/apr/20/the-invention-of-whiteness-long-history-dangerous-idea
Assistant Public Defender Adofo Minka on his article "Spirit of Self-Emancipation Continues to Rise at the St. Louis City Justice Center" for Black Agenda Report, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen processes his reaction to the greatest cosmic blunder.
https://blackagendareport.com/index.php/spirit-self-emancipation-continues-rise-st-louis-city-justice-center
Writer Vincent Bevins on his book "The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World" from PublicAffairs.
https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/vincent-bevins/the-jakarta-method/9781541724013/
Anthropologist James Doucet-Battle on sugar, diabetes, racialized science and his book "Sweetness in the Blood: Race, Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes" from University of Minnesota Press.
https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/sweetness-in-the-blood
Economist James K. Galbraith on modern monetary theory, public spending and possibility of post-neoliberal policy, and his article "Who's Afraid of MMT?" for Project Syndicate.
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/why-central-bankers-fear-modern-monetary-theory-by-james-k-galbraith-2020-12
Writer Ketan Joshi on his article "Bitcoin is a mouth hungry for fossil fuels" and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen wants to help you design your own dementia.
https://ketanjoshi.co/2021/03/11/bitcoin-is-a-mouth-hungry-for-fossil-fuels/
Journalist Seamus McGraw on his new book "From a Taller Tower: The Rise of the American Mass Shooter" from University of Texas Press.
https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/mcgraw-from-a-taller-tower
Political theorist Adrian Kreutz on the UK's proposed anti-protest “Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill," and his article "What good is a right to toothless protest?" for ROAR Magazine.
https://roarmag.org/essays/uk-crime-police-protest-bill/
Journalist Alexander Zaitchik on his article "How Bill Gates Impeded Global Access to Covid Vaccines" for The New Republic, and in a Moment of Truth Jeff Dorchen foils another dictatorship before it can start.
https://newrepublic.com/article/162000/bill-gates-impeded-global-access-covid-vaccines
Political scientist Laleh Khalili on her article "Apocalyptic Infrastructures" for Noēma Magazine.
https://www.noemamag.com/apocalyptic-infrastructures/
Historian Kevin Waite on his book "West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire" from UNC Press.
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469663197/west-of-slavery/
Writer Giulio D'Errico on police violence, the state and expanding rifts in Greek society, and his article "Resisting Greece’s rapid descent into authoritarianism" co-authored with Giovanni Marenda for ROAR Magazine.
https://roarmag.org/essays/greece-lockdown-koufontinas-protests/
Journalist Cerise Castle on her investigative series "A Tradition of Violence: The History of Deputy Gangs in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department" for Knock LA, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen reflects on how Godzilla and King Kong massacre our fear of massacres.
https://knock-la.com/tradition-of-violence-lasd-gang-history/
Disease ecologist Luis Fernando Chaves on his dispatch "Scientists say land use drives new pandemics. But what if 'land' isn’t what they think it is?" for Pandemic Research For The People.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12cW-PkPU9Z5TtoEMqKuhPnUGsmOLVp16/view
Public policy scholar Anna Artyushina on her article "The EU is launching a market for personal data. Here’s what that means for privacy" for MIT Technology Review.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/11/1006555/eu-data-trust-trusts-project-privacy-policy-opinion/
Writer Rich Woodall on the financialization of music catalogues and his article "Mass Hipgnosis" for The Baffler.
https://thebaffler.com/latest/mass-hipgnosis-woodall
Writer Ben Ehrenreich on his article "We're Hurtling Toward Global Suicide" for The New Republic.
https://newrepublic.com/article/161575/climate-change-effects-hurtling-toward-global-suicide
Writer Curt Guyette on his article "The Fight for Affordable Water" for ACLU Michigan.
https://www.aclumich.org/en/news/fight-affordable-water
Historian Andrew Bacevich on his article "On Shedding an Obsolete Past: Biden Defers to the Blob" for TomDispatch.
https://tomdispatch.com/on-shedding-an-obsolete-past/
Urbanist Davarian L. Baldwin on the dynamics between urban universities and the communities outside their walls, and his book "In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities" from Bold Type Books.
https://www.boldtypebooks.com/titles/davarian-l-baldwin/in-the-shadow-of-the-ivory-tower/9781568588919/
Writer Max Zirngast on his article "Turkey Is Trying to Ban the Socialist, Pro-Kurdish HDP" co-written with Alp Kayserilioğlu and Güney Işıkara via Jacobin.
https://jacobinmag.com/2021/03/turkey-erdogan-hdp-peoples-democratic-party-pro-kurdish-socialism
Jonathan Ellis and brian bean on confronting US violence at home and abroad, and their article "Rebuilding the Anti-Imperialist Movement in a New Era" for Rampant.
https://rampantmag.com/2021/03/rebuilding-the-anti-imperialist-movement-in-a-new-era/
Urban policy and planning scholar Karina Moreno on her article "Joe Biden’s Immigration Reform Doesn’t Do Enough to Help Migrant Workers" for Jacobin.
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/03/joe-biden-immigration-reform-us-citizenship-act
Live from São Paulo, journalist Brian Mier reports on Lula da Silva's legal victory, pandemic politics and antidemocracy in Brazil.
From 2017: Writer Cindy Milstein explains how death and grief connect us to the collective nature of the human experience, revealing the potential for solidarity and compassion in the face of capitalism's commodification of the self, and showing us a new way of living together, right now, while we still have the time.
Peace activist Kathy Kelly on the realities of war and sanctions for Iraq's people, the state of the anti-war movement and her article "Remembering the First Gulf War" for The Progressive, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen visits the Playground of Blood.
https://progressive.org/dispatches/remembering-first-gulf-war-kelly-210302
Sociologist Ruth Milkman on the dynamics of immigration law and low-wage work, and her new book "Immigrant Labor and the New Precariat" for Polity Books.
https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Immigrant+Labor+and+the+New+Precariat-p-9780745692012
Organizer Mariame Kaba on state violence, the possibilities of police and prison abolition, and her book "We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice" from Haymarket Books.
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1664-we-do-this-til-we-free-us
Writer Ray Levy Uyeda on her article "A Bleak Future for Water" for The Baffler, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen hears the quiet part loud.
https://thebaffler.com/latest/a-bleak-future-for-water-levy-uyeda
Journalist Nick Bowlin on public land management under the Trump administration, and his article "The Land Was Ours" for The Drift.
https://www.thedriftmag.com/public-lands/
Historian Raquel Varela on a century of capital, worker struggle and left movements across Europe, and her book "A People's History of Europe From World War I to Today" from Pluto Press.
https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745341347/a-peoples-history-of-europe/
Ohio River Valley Institute's Sean O'Leary on the economic impact of natural gas extraction across Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio, and his report “Appalachia’s Natural Gas Counties: Contributing more to the U.S. economy and getting less in return”
https://ohiorivervalleyinstitute.org/new-report-natural-gas-county-economies-suffered-as-production-boomed
Two conversations with American Indian Movement leader Vernon Bellecourt from the archives. Really love these interviews. Chuck is laid up with back problems, please send prayers and/or muscle relaxers.
Writer Erald Kolasi on his article "The Ecological State" for Monthly Review and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen celebrates Fat History Month.
Cira Pascual Marquina and Chris Gilbert on the dynamics of Venezuelan society, struggles on the communal path towards socialism and their book "Venezuela, the Present as Struggle: Voices from the Bolivarian Revolution" via Monthly Review.
https://monthlyreview.org/product/venezuela_the_present_as_struggle/
Historian Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni on colonialism's legacy of dehumanization, the exclusionary nation-state and his article "Black Citizenship and the Problem of 'Coloniality'" for Black Agenda Report's Black Citizenship Forum.
https://blackagendareport.com/black-citizenship-forum-black-citizenship-and-problem-coloniality
Journalists Alleen Brown and Akela Lacy on their report "State Legislatures Make “Unprecedented” Push on Anti-Protest Bills" for The Intercept, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen empathizes with savages and samurai.
Historian Elizabeth Catte on Virginia's forced sterilization campaign in the mid-20th century, the intersection of race, medicine and social control, and her book "Pure America: Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia" from Belt Publishing.
https://beltpublishing.com/products/pure-america
Writer Keller Easterling on new ways of seeing the world and its possibilities, and her book "Medium Design: Knowing How to Work on the World" from Verso Books.
https://www.versobooks.com/books/3245-medium-design
Cultural theorist Lynn Parramore on the deep social effects of economic precarity, and her article "Epidemic of Despair Could Haunt America Long After COVID" at the Institute for New Economic Thinking.
https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/epidemic-of-despair-could-haunt-america-long-after-covid
Write Elliot Sperber on his essay "Four crises, one crisis (or the health of the people)" for Monthly Review, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen sees the up side of the down side of success.
https://mronline.org/2021/01/26/four-crises-one-crisis-or-the-health-of-the-people/
Peter Bloom and Carl Rhodes on their article "Beware Corporate ‘Democracy Washing’: Twitter, Trump, and the Danger of Privatizing the Fight Against Fascism" for Common Dreams.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/01/23/beware-corporate-democracy-washing-twitter-trump-and-danger-privatizing-fight
Julian Brave NoiseCat on his article "Apocalypse Then and Now" for Columbia Journalism Review, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen watches the detectives.
https://www.cjr.org/special_report/apocalypse-then-and-now.php
Journalist Anna Clark on her article "The Unfinished Business of Flint's Water Crisis" for ProPublica.
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-unfinished-business-of-flints-water-crisis
Journalist Brian Mier on his documentary "Dismantling Brazil: Bolsonaro's Neoliberal Agenda" via redfish.
https://youtu.be/_ToGVJ3Zk2I
Attorneys Flint Taylor and Jeff Haas on their report "New Documents Suggest J. Edgar Hoover Was Involved in Fred Hampton’s Murder" for Truthout.
https://truthout.org/articles/new-documents-suggest-j-edgar-hoover-was-involved-in-fred-hamptons-murder/
Writer Robert Cavooris on his article "We Need a Popular Antifascist Movement" for Partisan, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen admits to digestive relief.
https://partisanmag.com/we-need-a-popular-antifascist-movement/
Law scholar Rose Parfitt on her article "Mob Constitutionalism: The Riot in the Rights" for Critical Legal Thinking.
https://criticallegalthinking.com/2021/01/12/mob-constitutionalism-the-riot-in-the-rights/
William Callison and Quinn Slobodian on their article "Coronapolitics from the Reichstag to the Capitol" for Boston Review.
https://bostonreview.net/politics/william-callison-quinn-slobodian-coronapolitics-reichstag-capitol
Anthropologist Ida Susser on her FocaalBlog article "Covid, police brutality and race: are ongoing French mobilizations breaking through the class boundaries?" and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen revisits the US military’s violations of the hospitality code.
http://www.focaalblog.com/2020/12/03/ida-susser-covid-police-brutality-and-race-are-ongoing-french-mobilizations-breaking-through-the-class-boundaries/
Historian Marcia Chatelain on the economic and social dynamics of fast food corporations and Black American life, and her book "Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America" from Liveright.
https://wwnorton.com/books/9781631493942
Social ecologist Andreas Malm on the failures of environmental pacifism, the urgent need to destroy capital's carbon infrastructure, and his book "How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire" from Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/books/3665-how-to-blow-up-a-pipeline
Lawyer and farmer activist Avik Saha on the planned corporate takeover of Indian agriculture.
Sociologist Peter Ikeler on the link between mass opioid death and deindustrialization in the US, and his paper "Labor relations and the overdose crisis in the United States"
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/16066359.2020.1793962?journalCode=iart20
Sociologist Mimi Sheller on the politics of movement and refuge under climate change, and her book "Island Futures: Caribbean Survival in the Anthropocene" from Duke University Press.
https://www.dukeupress.edu/island-futures
Historian Gerald Horne on the intertwined histories of boxing and Black men in America, and his book “The Bittersweet Science: Racism, Racketeering and the Political Economy of Boxing” from International Publishers.
https://www.intpubnyc.com/product/the-bittersweet-science-racism-racketeering-an-the-political-economy-of-boxing/
Your bitter, blind, broke, gap-toothed radio host Chuck Mertz shares four stories of crossing the US-Canada border on/with drugs sometime in the early 1980s.
Unlocked from the Patreon podcast. Merry Christmas everybody.
Chuck explains what he learned about farmer strikes in India from a cancelled interview, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen tells how he'll win the war.
Historian Lucy Delap on her new book "Feminisms: A Global History" from University of Chicago Press.
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/F/bo71583482.html
Sociologist Bram Büscher on his new book "The Truth about Nature: Environmentalism in the Era of Post-truth Politics and Platform Capitalism" from University of California Press.
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520371453/the-truth-about-nature
Journalist Amanda Sperber on her report "Uber made big promises in Kenya. Drivers say it's ruined their lives." for NBC News / 100 Reporters / Journalists for Transparency, and in a Moment of Truth Jeff Dorchen juggles delusions about democracy.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/uber-made-big-promises-kenya-drivers-say-it-s-ruined-n1247964
Journalist Federico Fuentes reports on Venezuela's recent parliamentary elections and his article "Why Venezuela’s National Assembly elections matter" for Green Left.
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/why-venezuelas-national-assembly-elections-matter
Historian Frank M. Snowden on his book " Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present" via Yale University Press.
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300192216/epidemics-and-society
Architect Shivani Shedde on poverty and population control in Indira Gandhi-era India, and her article "Housing the Poor for a Healthy Planet and Healthy Nation" for e-flux.
https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/sick-architecture/345269/housing-the-poor-for-a-healthy-planet-and-healthy-nation/
Writer Rebecca McCarthy on her Baffler article "Deep Sea Rush," and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen swats the zeitgeist zombies.
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/deep-sea-rush-mccarthy
Ward Anseeuw on the International Land Coalition report "Uneven Ground: Land inequalities at the heart of unequal societies.
"https://www.landcoalition.org/en/uneven-ground/report-and-papers/
TeleSur English's Brian Mier reports on far-right losses, and gains for both the left and center-right in Brazil's 2020 municipal elections.
Our Man in San Juan, Dave Buchen reports on a statehood vote in Puerto Rico, mid-pandemic and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen and his anesthesiologist give a stern warning.
Philosopher Teppo Eskelinen on "The Revival of Political Imagination: Utopia as Methodology" from Zed Books.
https://www.zedbooks.net/shop/book/the-revival-of-political-imagination/
Researcher Duncan Tarr on the report "First 90 Days of Prisoner Resistance to COVID-19: Report on Events, Data, and Trends" from Perilous.
https://perilouschronicle.com/2020/11/12/covid-prisoner-resistance-first-90-days-full-report/
Writer Ann Neumann on her Baffler article "Drugs for the People," and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen stands on a principle.
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/drugs-for-the-people-neumann
Jack Schneider and Jennifer Berkshire on their book "A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door: The Dismantling of Public Education and the Future of School" from The New Press.
https://thenewpress.com/books/wolf-schoolhouse-door
Geographer Alastair Bonnett on his book "Elsewhere: A Journey into Our Age of Islands" from University of Chicago Press.
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/E/bo45051804.html
Journalist Brian Hioe on his article "Pan-Democrat Legislators Resign En Masse from Hong Kong Legislative Council" for New Bloom Mag:
https://newbloommag.net/2020/11/12/pan-dem-resign-hk/
Polish politician Zofia Malisz on the abortion rights struggle in Poland and the statement letter "Our Bodies, Our Lives, Our Country, the World," and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen leans on survivor bias.
https://progressive.international/wire/2020-10-30-razem-our-bodies-our-lives-our-country-the-world/en
Anthropologist Anna L. Tsing on "Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene" a digital project from Stanford University Press.
http://feralatlas.org/
Giorgos Kallis and Susan Paulson on their book "The Case for Degrowth," co-written with Giacomo D'Alisa and Federico Demaria for Polity.
https://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509535620
Mohamed Abdou on his essay "Let Empire collapse: why we need a decolonial revolution" for ROAR Magazine.
https://roarmag.org/essays/let-empire-collapse-why-we-need-a-decolonial-revolution/
Writer Hadas Thier on her book "A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics" from Haymarket Books.
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1481-a-people-s-guide-to-capitalism
Political theorist Ruth Kinna on anarchism in thought and action, and her new book "The Government of No One: The Theory and Practice of Anarchism" from Penguin UK.
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/300/300055/the-government-of-no-one/9780141984667.html
Conflict researcher Mohammed al-Jumaily on US military actions in Yemen, tracking civilian death and his report "Eroding Transparency: US counterterrorism actions in Yemen under President Donald Trump" for Airwars.
https://airwars.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Eroding-Transparency-Trump-in-Yemen.-Airwars-October-2020.pdf
Live from Santiago, Bree Busk on her article "Chileans mobilize in advance of a historic plebiscite" for ROAR Magazine, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen takes another stab at the advertising culture.
https://roarmag.org/essays/chile-constitutional-referendum/
Anthropologist Bret Gustafson on his new book "Bolivia in the Age of Gas" from Duke University Press.
https://www.dukeupress.edu/bolivia-in-the-age-of-gas
Urban policy specialist Diana Lind on her new book "Brave New Home: Our Future in Smarter, Simpler, Happier Housing" from Bold Type Books.
https://www.boldtypebooks.com/titles/diana-lind/brave-new-home/9781541742642/
Journalist Emma Roller on her article "How Wisconsin Became a Bastion of White Supremacy" for The New Republic.
https://newrepublic.com/article/159524/wisconsin-became-bastion-white-supremacy
Lawyer and geographer Danielle Purifoy on her reports "Knock on Wood: How Europe's wood pellet appetite fuels environmental racism in the South" and "As the wood pellet industry grows across the South, Enviva targets Alabama and Mississippi for future expansion " for Scalawag, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen concludes his spiel on class consciousness.
https://scalawagmagazine.org/2020/10/wood-pellet-environmental-racism-part-one/
https://scalawagmagazine.org/2020/10/wood-pellet-environmental-racism-part-two/
Writer Xiaowei Wang on their book "Blockchain Chicken Farm And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside" from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374538668
Evolutionary epidemiologist Rob Wallace on his new book "Dead Epidemiologists: On the Origins of COVID-19" from Monthly Review Press.
https://monthlyreview.org/product/dead-epidemiologists-on-the-origins-of-covid-19/
Journalist Gloria Dickie on her report "The Arctic is in a death spiral. How much longer will it exist?" for The Guardian.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2020/oct/13/arctic-ice-melting-climate-change-global-warming
Political science scholar Theresa Enright on her Society & Space essay "Commotion" and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen hammers the history of class-consciousness into shape.
https://www.societyandspace.org/articles/commotion
The Debt Collective's Thomas Gokey on their new book "Can't Pay, Won't Pay: The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition" via Haymarket Books.
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1520-can-t-pay-won-t-pay
Writer Thomas Frank on his book "The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism" from Metropolitan Books.
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250220110
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists chief reporter Ben Hallman on global bank fraud and the massive #FinCENFiles investigation.
https://www.icij.org/investigations/fincen-files/
Economists Fadhel Kaboub and Ndongo Samba Sylla on their open letter "Africa’s Pandemic Response Calls for Reclaiming Economic and Monetary Sovereignty," and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen looks at the spectrum from white to pale to transparent to invisible.
https://mes-africa.org/
Journalist Daniel Trilling on his article "How rescuing drowning migrants became a crime" for The Guardian.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/sep/22/how-rescuing-drowning-migrants-became-a-crime-iuventa-salvini-italy
Legal scholar Rory Van Loo on antitrust law, the politics of monopoly-busting and his paper "In Defense of Breakups: Administering a 'Radical' Remedy."
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3646630#
Sociologist William I. Robinson on his new book "The Global Police State" from Pluto Press.
https://www.plutobooks.com/9781786806666/the-global-police-state/
Global Justice Now director Nick Dearden on his book "Trade Secrets: The truth about the US trade deal and how we can stop it" and his article "We must defeat the US trade deal" for openDemocracy.
https://tradesecrets.globaljustice.org.uk/
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/we-must-defeat-us-trade-deal/
Historian Fabian Scheidler on his book "The End of the Megamachine: A Brief History of a Failing Civilization" via Zero Books.
https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/end-megamachine-brief-history-failing-civilization#synopsis
Political analyst Maged Mandour on his articles "The capitalist roots of Egyptian authoritarianism: demystifying a state" for openDemocracy and "Sisi’s War on the Poor" for Sada Journal.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/north-africa-west-asia/capitalist-roots-egyptian-authoritarianism-demystifying-state/
https://carnegieendowment.org/sada/82772
Suzanne Dhaliwal + Lindsey Bacigal on indigenous pipeline resistance, territorial reoccupation and their article "All Eyes on Wet’suwet’en" for Red Pepper.
https://www.redpepper.org.uk/all-eyes-on-wetsuweten/
Journalist Abrahm Lustgarten on his report "Climate Change Will Force a New American Migration" for ProPublica.
https://www.propublica.org/article/climate-change-will-force-a-new-american-migration
Researcher Christian Sorensen on his book "Understanding the War Industry" from Clarity Press.
https://www.claritypress.com/product/understanding-the-war-industry/
Kate Clark on her report "War in Afghanistan in 2020: Just as much violence, but no one wants to talk about it" for Afghanistan Analysts Network
https://www.afghanistan-analysts.org/en/reports/war-and-peace/war-in-afghanistan-in-2020-just-as-much-violence-but-no-one-wants-to-talk-about-it/
Sylvia Cifuentes on her article "Territory, Autonomy and Rights: Indigenous Politics and COVID-19 in the Amazon Basin" for Society and Space, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen waits for just the right moment.
https://www.societyandspace.org/articles/territory-autonomy-and-rights
Geographer Deborah Potts on her new book "Broken Cities: Inside the Global Housing Crisis" from ZED Books.
https://www.zedbooks.net/shop/book/broken-cities/
Robert Vitalis on his book "Oilcraft: The Myths of Scarcity and Security That Haunt U.S. Energy Policy" from Stanford University Press.
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=28252
Helena Paul on her article "Looking beyond the pandemic: Agroecology, and the need to rethink our food system" for Radical Ecological Democracy.
https://www.radicalecologicaldemocracy.org/looking-beyond-the-pandemic-agroecology-and-the-need-to-rethink-our-food-system/
Philosopher Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò on his article "Climate Apartheid Is the Coming Police Violence Crisis" for Dissent, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen asks "what color is your smoke?"
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/climate-apartheid-is-the-coming-police-violence-crisis
Author and activist Carolijn Terwindt on her new book "When Protest Becomes Crime: Politics and Law in Liberal Democracies" from Pluto Press.
https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745340043/when-protest-becomes-crime/
Historian Annelien de Dijn on modern conceptions of freedom, the state, antidemocracy and her book "Freedom: An Unruly History" from Harvard Press.
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674988330
Former FBI special agent Michael German on his report "Hidden in Plain Sight: Racism, White Supremacy, and Far-Right Militancy in Law Enforcement" for The Brennan Center.
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/hidden-plain-sight-racism-white-supremacy-and-far-right-militancy-law
Anthropologist David Graeber's three interviews on This Is Hell!, talking about fun, bureaucracy and bullshit jobs. RIP David.
The Transnational Institute's Niamh Ni Bhriain on the crises of capital and Covid-19 under the global external border regime, and her article "The deadly politics of colonial borders under COVID-19" for ROAR.
https://roarmag.org/essays/colonial-borders-covid-19/
Anthropologist Wade Davis on his article "The Unraveling of America" for Rolling Stone, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen is ready for action... later.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/covid-19-end-of-american-era-wade-davis-1038206
Historian Rick Perlstein on modern American conservatism's realignment around Ronald Reagan, and his new book "Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980" from Simon & Schuster.
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Reaganland/Rick-Perlstein/9781476793054
Historian Edward Onaci on his book "Free the Land: The Republic of New Afrika and the Pursuit of a Black Nation-State" from UNC Press.
Chuck vacation monologue Christian Parenti on police and prisons in the US [13:00] Andreas Toupedakis on quitting nuclear weapons work [48:14] Joyce Horman remembers the 1973 Chilean coup d'etat [1:13:23] Manuel Calahan from Accion Zapatista [1:45:18] Christopher Hitchens on the lies of Bill Clinton [2:22:21] Vernon Bellecourt from the American Indian Network [3:07:35] Jon Sinclair from the MC5 [incomplete 3:48:00]
Inequality.org's Sarah Anderson on the political and economic crises hitting the US Postal Service, and her recent article "USPS Needs Financial Aid to Continue Providing Essential Services" for Inequality.org, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen publishes the Rotten Egg Manifesto.
Historian David Broder on the right's multi-decade rise to power in Italian politics and his book "First They Took Rome: How the Populist Right Conquered Italy" from Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/books/2974-first-they-took-rome
Organizers Andi W. and Promise Li on the Hong Kong protest movement, the case for solidarity from the transnational left, and their article "Left on an Island" for Tempest.
https://www.tempestmag.org/2020/08/solidarity-with-hong-kong/
Writer William Shoki on evictions, police violence and neoliberal hegemony in South Africa, and his recent articles "The existing order of things" and "The class character of police violence" for Africa Is A Country. Plus in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen hauls sixteen tons.
https://africasacountry.com/2020/07/the-existing-order-of-things
https://africasacountry.com/2020/06/the-class-character-of-police-violence
Journalists Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law on the ways prison reforms expand state surveillance and punishment, and their new book "Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms" from The New Press.
https://thenewpress.com/books/prison-by-any-other-name
Artist Cassie Thornton on imagining and practicing new forms of health and social care, and her book "The Hologram: Feminist, Peer-to-Peer Health for a Post-Pandemic Future" from Pluto Books.
https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745343327/the-hologram/
CEPR policy analyst and former Ecuadorian cabinet member Guillaume Long on lawfare, expulsion and neoliberal, antidemocratic politics in Ecuador.
Writer Tamara Fernando on pandemic labor on the 19th century Indian coast and her article "Death at the Pearl Fishery" for Hypocrite Reader. Plus in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen auditions new horsemen for the apocalypse.
http://hypocritereader.com/95/tamara-fernando-mannar-pearls-cholera
Writer Ashley Dawson on decarbonizing the global energy system, collectivizing renewables, and his book "People's Power: Reclaiming the Energy Commons" from OR Books.
- Use the promocode THISISHELL15 and get 15% off the book at OR's site, plus a free download of Ashley's book "Extinction: A Radical History."
https://www.orbooks.com/catalog/peoples-power/
Live from São Paulo, Brian Mier on the work of his friend Michael Brooks, and COVID19 politics in Brazil.
Political scientist Alexander Kolokotronis on police abolition, participatory budgeting and his article "What To Do Once We’ve Defunded The Police" for Current Affairs.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/07/what-to-do-once-weve-defunded-the-police
Writer Ben Ehrenreich on the value of life and time before the collapse, and his book "Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time" via Counterpoint Press, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen wants to sell you another improved fascism.
https://www.counterpointpress.com/dd-product/desert-notebooks/
Writer Brendan O'Connor on opening the pandemic economy, the accelerationist right and his article "The Accelerating Gyre" for The Baffler.
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-accelerating-gyre-oconnor
Historian Gerald Horne on his book "The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century" from Monthly Review.
https://monthlyreview.org/product/the-dawning-of-the-apocalypse/
Julian Brave NoiseCat on Indian law and land rights after McGirt v. Oklahoma, and his article "The McGirt Case Is a Historic Win for Tribes" for The Atlantic.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/mcgirt-case-historic-win-tribes/614071/
Investigative journalist Greg Palast on mass voter theft operations ahead of the 2020 US elections, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen clicks on #Goyaway.
Writer Marquis Bey on new visions of anarchy and Blackness in this world and the next, and their book "Anarcho-Blackness: Notes Toward a Black Anarchism" from AK Press.
https://www.akpress.org/anarcho-blackness.html
Criminologist Brendan McQuade on mass surveillance, population control and his article "The 'Camden Model' Is Not a Model. It’s an Obstacle to Real Change" for Jacobin.
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/07/camden-new-jersey-police-reform-surveillance
Attorney Flint Taylor on his op-ed "Police Unions Are Racist Power Brokers in Opposition to Movement for Black Lives" for Truthout and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen wants us to plan for what happens after the future.
https://truthout.org/articles/police-unions-are-racist-power-brokers-in-opposition-to-movement-for-black-lives/
Anthropologist Kregg Hetherington on the politics of soy monocropping in neoliberal Paraguay, and his book "The Government of Beans: Regulating Life in the Age of Monocrops" from Duke University Press.
https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-government-of-beans
Geographer Eugene McCann on the politics of public and counterpublic space, and his article "Spaces of publicness and the world after the Coronavirus crisis" for Society and Space.
https://www.societyandspace.org/articles/spaces-of-publicness
Kai Heron and Jodi Dean on progressive climate denialism, the danger of apolitical climate movements and their essay "Revolution or Ruin" for e-flux.
https://www.e-flux.com/journal/110/335242/revolution-or-ruin/
Writer Richard Seymour on his article "The nationalist unconscious" for Red Pepper, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen wonders who put the pomp in Pompeo.
https://www.redpepper.org.uk/the-nationalist-unconscious/
Law scholars Kate Levine and Joanna Schwartz on the role of prosecutors in the brutality of the American legal system, and their article "Hold Prosecutors Accountable, Too" for Boston Review.
https://bostonreview.net/law-justice/kate-levine-joanna-schwartz-hold-prosecutors-accountable-too
Historian Jennifer L. Holland on the success of the pro-life movement within conservative politics, and her book "Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movement" from University of California Press.
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520295872/tiny-you
Kate Shea Baird on Barcelona En Comú and municipal politics under COVID-19 quarantine, and her article "Lessons from the pandemic for the municipalists in Spain" for ROAR Magazine.
https://roarmag.org/essays/lessons-from-the-pandemic-for-the-municipalists-in-spain/
Writer Connor Woodman on his Verso blog series "The Imperial Boomerang" and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen wonders if we can pretend our way to justice.
Historian Adam Goodman on his new book "The Deportation Machine: America's Long History of Expelling Immigrants" from Princeton University Press.
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691182155/the-deportation-machine
Legal scholar Aya Gruber on crimes against women, mass incarceration and her book "The Feminist War on Crime: The Unexpected Role of Women's Liberation in Mass Incarceration" from University of California Press.
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520304512/the-feminist-war-on-crime
Sociologist Musa al-Gharbi on the politics of police violence, and his article "Brutal Force" for The Baffler.
https://thebaffler.com/latest/brutal-force-al-gharbi
Organizers Max Rameau and Netfa Freeman on today's uprisings, fighting the violence of dispossession and their article "Community Control Vs. Defunding the Police: A Critical Analysis" for Black Agenda Report.
https://www.blackagendareport.com/community-control-vs-defunding-police-critical-analysis
Writers Richard Hunsinger and Nathan Eisenberg on the unfolding crises of global capitalism and their essay "Mask Off: Crisis & Struggle in the Pandemic" from Cosmonaut.
https://cosmonaut.blog/2020/06/08/mask-off-crisis-struggle-in-the-pandemic/
Writer Eugene McCarraher on capitalism's grip on the modern world and all its subjects, and his book "The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity" from Harvard University Press.
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674984615
Historian Cedric Johnson on police violence, antiracist activism, class politics and his article "The Triumph of Black Lives Matter and Neoliberal Redemption" for Nonsite.
https://nonsite.org/editorial/the-triumph-of-black-lives-matter-and-neoliberal-redemption
Writer Ajay Singh Chaudhary on the diverging politics of climate change and his Baffler article "We're Not in This Together," and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen explores fear and human nature.
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/were-not-in-this-together-chaudhary
Historian Paul M. Renfro on the child abduction panics of the 70s and 80s, America's political and social response, and his book "Stranger Danger: Family Values, Childhood, and the American Carceral State" from Oxford University Press.
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/stranger-danger-9780190913984?cc=us⟨=en&#
Africana studies scholar Yannick Giovanni Marshall on radical uprisings against the police and colonialism, the power of Black radicalism and his op-ed "Black liberal, your time is up" for Al Jazeera English.
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/black-liberal-time-george-floyd-200601155933648.html
Writer William C. Anderson on the real theft in capitalist society and the uprisings against it, and his article "Forget 'Looting.' Capitalism Is the Real Robbery" for Truthout. And in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen attends the Get Real Shabbat.
https://truthout.org/articles/forget-looting-capitalism-is-the-real-robbery/
Sociologist Sarah Beth Kaufman on the social and legal mechanisms of capital punishment, and her book "American Roulette: The Social Logic of Death Penalty Sentencing Trials."
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520344396/american-roulette
Cultural critic Henry Giroux on the violence wielded by capital and the state, the uprisings across the country, and his article "Racial Domestic Terrorism and the Legacy of State Violence" for Counterpunch.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/06/01/racial-domestic-terrorism-and-the-legacy-of-state-violence/
Theorist Ariella Aïsha Azoulay on imperial violence in the past and present, unlearning history and her book "Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism" from @VersoBooks.
https://www.versobooks.com/books/3079-potential-history
Sociologists Julius Alexander McGee and Patrick Trent Greiner on neoliberal energy markets and the new realities of climate change.
Julius and Patrick wrote the article "How Long Can Neoliberalism Withstand Climate Crisis?" for Monthly Review.
https://monthlyreview.org/2020/04/01/how-long-can-neoliberalism-withstand-climate-crisis/
The Hopleaf's Michael Roper on the present and future of restaurants under COVID19, and his article "How the Pandemic Wreaked Havoc With One of Chicago’s Most Venerable Beer Bars" for Eater Chicago. And in a Moment of Truth, opportunity knocks and Jeff Dorchen answers.
https://chicago.eater.com/2020/5/6/21243329/hopleaf-bar-owner-michael-roper-coronavirus-challenges-andersonville
International politics scholar Laleh Khalili on the role of ports in the circulation of profit and power in global capitalism, and her new book "Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula" from Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/books/3172-sinews-of-war-and-trade
Anthropologist Alex Blanchette on the domination of the industrialized pork industry, and his book "Porkopolis: American Animality, Standardized Life, and the Factory Farm" from Duke University Press.
https://www.dukeupress.edu/porkopolis
Writer Pavlos Roufos on Europe's managed, externalized migration crisis, and his article "A Disaster Foretold" for The Brooklyn Rail.
https://brooklynrail.org/2020/05/field-notes/A-Disaster-Foretold
Live from Santiago, journalist Lucas Koerner reports on a failed coup attempt in Venezuela involving US mercenaries, and his article "Venezuela: Two US Citizens Captured in Botched Coup Attempt" for Venezuelanalysis.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/14864
Sociologist Erin Hatton on the rise of coerced labor in the United States, and her book "Coerced: Work Under Threat of Punishment" from University of California Press.
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520305410/coerced
Matt Peterson and Maria Herron of Woodbine on building networks of solidarity and aid under quarantine in New York City.
https://www.woodbine.nyc/
Live from Mexico City, Laura Carlsen reports on Coronavirus politics in Mexico, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen concludes his 4 part series on a TV doctor's turn to the snake oil.
Historian Ibram X. Kendi on the racial pandemic within the larger US Coronavirus outbreak, and his article "Stop Blaming Black People for Dying of the Coronavirus" for The Atlantic.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/race-and-blame/609946/
Sociologist Dilar Dirik on the fate of the Rojavan revolution, building power together for all people, and her chapter "Only with you, this broom will fly: Rojava, Magic, and Sweeping Away the State Inside of Us" in the collection "Deciding for Ourselves" from AK Press.
Writer Vijay Kolinjivadi on the global Coronavirus pandemic as ecological disaster and his article "This pandemic IS ecological breakdown: different tempo, same song" for Uneven Earth.
http://unevenearth.org/2020/04/this-pandemic-is-ecological-breakdown-different-tempo-same-song/
PLUS: Chuck on who is all in this together, and the week in Rotten History...
Live from Taipei, New Bloom editor Brian Hioe on COVID-19 politics in Taiwan, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen follows a TV doctor's trail of snake oil.
Iranian studies scholar Hamid Dabashi on the failures of the nation-state as a frame for political power, and his new book "The Emperor is Naked: On the Inevitable Demise of the Nation-State" from Zed Books.
https://www.zedbooks.net/shop/book/the-emperor-is-naked/
Writer Cindy Milstein on self-determination and community organization under (and after) COVID-19 lockdown, and her new book "Deciding For Ourselves: The Promise of Direct Democracy" from AK Press.
https://www.akpress.org/deciding-for-ourselves.html
Live from São Paulo, Brian Mier reports on COVID-19 and authoritarian clown politics in Brazil, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen continues his fictional expose of a man who betrayed his calling in exchange for fame and fortune.
Writer Malcolm Harris on life in the wake of capitalism's global triumph, the state of dissent since Occupy, and his book "Shit Is Fucked Up And Bullshit: History Since the End of History" from Melville House.
https://www.mhpbooks.com/books/shit-is-fucked-up-and-bullshit/
Cosmonaut's Remi Debs Bruno and Medway Baker on COVID-19 and capitalism in crisis, why the future might finally be up for grabs, and their essay "The End of the End of History: COVID-19 and 21st Century Fascism."
https://cosmonaut.blog/2020/03/26/the-end-of-the-end-of-history-covid-19-and-21st-century-fascism/
Writer Danny Haiphong on what the left can learn about power and politics from the failures of the Bernie Sanders presidential campaigns.
Danny wrote the article "Bernie Sanders’ Exit from the Race Is Not Betrayal, It’s a Reality-Check" for the American Herald Tribune.
https://ahtribune.com/us/2020-election/4060-bernie-sanders-exit-reality-check.html
Seoul correspondent Marc Flury reports on Covid-19 policies in South Korea, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen follows a certain TV doctor's career from Caring Professional to Right-leaning Snake Oil Salesman [Part 1 of 4]
Rob Wallace and Alex Liebman on the ways the Coronavirus pandemic exposes the crises of capitalism in nature and society. Rob and Alex wrote the essay "Covid-19 and the Circuits of Capital" with Luis Fernando Chaves and Rodrick Wallace for Monthly Review.
https://monthlyreview.org/2020/04/01/covid-19-and-circuits-of-capital/
Historian Helen Yaffe on the characteristics of Cuba's longterm socialist revolution, and her new book "We Are Cuba! How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet World" from Yale University Press.
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300230031/we-are-cuba
Budapest correspondent Todd Williams reports on authoritarian politics and the Coronavirus in Hungary, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen considers existence and other disposable items.
Historian Andrew Liu on the geopolitics of Coronavirus blame, the pandemic's spread across the global market, and his n+1 article "Chinese Virus,' World Market."
https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/chinese-virus-world-market/
Economist Eileen Appelbaum on the US legislative response to the Coronavirus, and her article "The U.S. Response to COVID-19: What’s in Federal Legislation and What’s Not, but Still Needed" written with Shawn Fremstad for CEPR.
https://cepr.net/the-u-s-response-to-covid-19-whats-in-federal-legislation-and-whats-not-but-still-needed/
Writer Breanne Fahs explores the power of the feminist manifesto - as radical act of anger and imagination, and revolutionary document of social change.
Breanne is editor of "Burn It Down! Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution" from Verso: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3151-burn-it-down
PLUS: Chuck can't go back to whatever normal was, and this week in Rotten History...
Our Man in San Juan, Dave Buchen reports from colonial lockdown in Puerto Rico and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen imagines his way out of this mess.
Writer Max Haiven on the world mid-crisis, the struggle to come, and his essay "No return to normal: for a post-pandemic liberation" for ROAR Magazine.
https://roarmag.org/essays/no-return-to-normal-for-a-post-pandemic-liberation/
Economist Josh Gans on the global and national mobilization against the Covid-19 pandemic, how societies must transform to save lives, and his policy brief "A War Footing: Surfing the Curve" for EconFIP.
https://econfip.org/policy-brief/a-war-footing-surfing-the-curve
Evolutionary biologist Rob Wallace on the linked global crises of Covid-19 and capitalism, waking up to the fight for our lives, and his article "Notes on a novel coronavirus" for Monthly Review.
https://mronline.org/2020/01/29/notes-on-a-novel-coronavirus/
PLUS: Chuck on survival capitalism and this week in Rotten History...
Political scientist Yekaterina Oziashvili on the antidemocratic structure of American society and her article “The U.S. Constitution and the Myth of Liberal Democracy” for Left Voice, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen ranks the Austrian nobility.
https://www.leftvoice.org/the-u-s-constitution-and-the-myth-of-liberal-democracy
Historian On Barak on British energy imperialism in the Middle East, the carbon infrastructure of the modern world, and his book "Powering Empire: How Coal Made the Middle East and Sparked Global Carbonization" from University of California Press.
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520310728/powering-empire
CRASS co-founder Penny Rimbaud on anarchy in the UK music scene, the politics of punk music, and why the love is the fundamental condition of anarchism.
Mareile Pfannebecker and J. A. Smith on capitalism's domination over our time, the rise of malemployment, and their book "Work, Want, Work: Labour and Desire at the End of Capitalism" from Zed Books.
https://www.zedbooks.net/shop/book/work-want-work/
PLUS: Chuck on locking ourselves away, and this week in Rotten History...
Writers Shiri Pasternak and Hayden King on dispossession of indigenous land and power, and their paper "Land Back" for the Yellowhead Institute. Plus in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen tells the tale of a whale.
https://redpaper.yellowheadinstitute.org/
Jacobin writer Branko Marcetic on Joe Biden's five decade career of rightwing politics within the Democratic party, what a Biden / Trump election means for America, and his new book "Yesterday's Man: The Case Against Joe Biden" from Verso and Jacobin.
https://www.jacobinmag.com/store/product/67
Writer Nicole Aschoff on the ways smartphones have transformed our relationship with capital and ourselves, and her new book “The Smartphone Society: Technology, Power, and Resistance in the New Gilded Age” from Beacon Press.
http://www.beacon.org/The-Smartphone-Society-P1551.aspx
PLUS: Chuck isn’t going anywhere soon, and the Question From Hell!
Scientist Abby Kinchy on the politics of science in institutions and society, and her book “Scientist by the People: Participation, Power, and the Politics of Environmental Knowledge" co-written with Aya H Kimura for Rutgers University Press.
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/science-by-the-people/9780813595078
PLUS: Chuck on who chose Biden, and this week in Rotten History.
Writer Austin Bryniarski on waste and inequality in the American food system, and his article "The war on food waste is a waste of time" for The Outline, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen wins one for the Rosas.
Media studies scholar Elana Levine on gender and politics through mass media, and her book "Her Stories: Daytime Soap Opera and US Television History" from Duke University Press.
https://www.dukeupress.edu/her-stories
Economist Rob Larson on tech’s platform capitalism, network effect monopolization and his book “Bit Tyrants: The Political Economy of Silicon Valley” from Haymarket Books.
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1381-bit-tyrants
PLUS: Chuck talks about what won't get talked about in primary coverage, and this week's Question From Hell!
Writer Asad Haider on seeing radical possibilities beyond the depoliticized frame, building a revolutionary movement beyond the limits of the Sanders campaign, and his essay “On Depoliticization” for Viewpoint.
https://www.viewpointmag.com/2019/12/16/on-depoliticization/
PLUS: Chuck gambles on Biden 2020, and this week in Rotten History…
IT For Change deputy director Nandini Chami on her article "Data governance and the new frontiers of resistance" written with Anita Gurumurthy for ROAR / Transnational Institute, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen defends the obvious.
https://roarmag.org/essays/intelligent-corporation-platform-capitalism/
Historian Touré Reed on Trump and Sanders, what's been removed from politics by neoliberalism, the politics of race and class and his book "Toward Freedom: The Case Against Race Reductionism" from Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/books/3166-toward-freedom
Writer Shuja Haider on the anti-Democratic politics of the Democratic Party primaries, and his article “The world’s biggest threat to democracy is the Democratic Party” for The Outline.
https://theoutline.com/post/8721/democratic-debaste-superdelegates-dnc-convention
Plus: Listener Feedback and the Question from Hell!
Economist Paul Cockshott on his book "How the World Works: The Story of Human Labor from Prehistory to the Modern Day" from Monthly Review Press.
https://monthlyreview.org/product/how-the-world-works/
PLUS: Chuck gets trolled by CNN, and this week in Rotten History...
Black Agenda Report columnist and senior editor Margaret Kimberley on the history of anti-Black politics from the American executive, and her book "Prejudential: Black American and the Presidents," and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen punctures the balloons and hands and feet of the faithful.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/612534/prejudential-by-margaret-kimberley/
Sociologist John Bellamy Foster on the modern divide between humanity and nature and his book “The Robbery of Nature: Capitalism and the Ecological Rift” from Monthly Review.
https://monthlyreview.org/product/the-robbery-of-nature/
Writer and critic Kate Wagner on the aesthetics of post-industrial decline, and her Baffler article “Staring at Hell” .
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/staring-at-hell-wagner
PLUS: Listener Feedback, and this week’s Question From Hell.
Writer Mikkel Krause Frantzen on his book "Going Nowhere, Slow: The Aesthetics and Politics of Depression" from Zero Books.
https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/going-nowhere-slow
Plus: Chuck doesn't travel well, and this week in Rotten History...
Journalist Colin Kinniburgh on his article "Can Extinction Rebellion Survive?" for Dissent / In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen dissects a human millipede.
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/can-extinction-rebellion-survive
Anthropologist Marc Edelman on his article "How Capitalism Underdeveloped Rural America" for Jacobin.
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/01/capitalism-underdeveloped-rural-america-trump-white-working-class
Bram Büscher and Robert Fletcher on their book "The Conservation Revolution: Radical Ideas for Saving Nature Beyond the Anthropocene" from Verso Books.
https://www.versobooks.com/books/3149-the-conservation-revolution
PLUS: Chuck visits the mall, and this week in Rotten History...
Writer and researcher Samuel Woolley on his book "The Reality Game: How the Next Wave of Technology Will Break the Truth" from PublicAffairs, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen vets the DNC's savior.
https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/samuel-woolley/the-reality-game/9781541768253/
International studies scholar Humberto Beck on the Dissent article "Year One of AMLO’s Mexico."
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/year-one-of-amlos-mexico
Sociologist Josh Seim on the work of paramedics under neoliberal precarity and his book "Bandage, Sort, and Hustle: Ambulance Crews on the Front Lines of Urban Suffering" from University of California Press.
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520300231/bandage-sort-and-hustle
Political economist Martín Arboleda on the globalized system of resource extraction and economic imperialism, and his book "Planetary Mine: Territories of Extraction under Late Capitalism"
https://www.versobooks.com/books/3078-planetary-mine
PLUS: Chuck falls off the Trump Unity Bridge, and this week in Rotten History...
Architect Stephanie Carlisle on the building industry's role producing climate change, and her article "I’ve been polluting the planet for years. I’m not an oil exec—I’m an architect" for Fast Company.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90435650/these-are-the-last-years-of-design-as-we-know-it
PLUS: In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen beholds the elder gods of American politics.
Civil Society and Community Studies scholar Jennifer Gaddis on the politics of school lunch programs in America, and her book “The Labor of Lunch Why We Need Real Food and Real Jobs in American Public Schools” from University of California Press.
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520300033/the-labor-of-lunch#about-author
Journalist Peter Ward on capitalism’s push to space, the future of exploitation, accumulation and the rest of us on planet Earth, and his book “The Consequential Frontier: Challenging the Privatization of Space” from Melville House.
https://www.mhpbooks.com/books/the-consequential-frontier/
PLUS: Chuck watches a newscast collapse time.
Historian Vincent Brown on the geopolitics of the transatlantic slave trade and its resistance movements, seeing our history (and our present) beyond borders, and his book “Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War” from Harvard University Press.
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674737570
PLUS: Chuck reads the news you didn’t, and this week in Rotten History.
Sociologist Kari Marie Norgaard on her book "Salmon and Acorns Feed Our People: Colonialism, Nature, and Social Action" from Rutgers University Press. PLUS: In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen stops breathing in 2020.
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/salmon-and-acorns-feed-our-people/9780813584195
Intercept journalist Sharon Lerner on the right's gutting of toxic chemical regulations and her article "The War on the War on Cancer"
https://theintercept.com/2020/01/12/cancer-trump-administration-epa-carcinogens-regulations/
Journalist Kim Baca reports on the work of a Native American coalition to build tribal food sovereignty. [Rebroadcast Interview] / PLUS: Chuck beefs with a Central Illinois letter to the editor writer, and this week in Rotten History.
Sociologist Adaner Usmani on his paper "The Economic Origins of Mass Incarceration" for Catalyst Journal.
https://catalyst-journal.com/vol3/no3/the-economic-origins-of-mass-incarceration
PLUS: Chuck can't get high after not talking about his show.
Historian Maria Ryan explores the rise of irregular warfare in the 21st century, and her book “Full Spectrum Dominance: Irregular Warfare and the War on Terror” from Stanford University Press.
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=27429
PLUS: Chuck wonders who the Clintons were triangulating with on immigration.
Journalist Daniel Denvir on the rise of anti-immigrant politics on the right and center, and his book "All-American Nativism: How the Bipartisan War on Immigrants Explains Politics as We Know It" from Verso Books.
https://www.versobooks.com/books/2858-all-american-nativism
PLUS: Chuck visits the future, and this week in Rotten History.
Writer Alex Niven on the non-state of British politics, the promise of regional devolution, and his book “New Model Island: How to Build a Radical Culture Beyond the Idea of England” from Repeater Books.
https://repeaterbooks.com/product/new-model-island-how-to-build-a-radical-culture-beyond-the-idea-of-england/
PLUS: Listener Feedback
Anthropologist Maggie Dickinson on food assistance, poverty and her book Feeding the Crisis Care and Abandonment in America's Food Safety Net from University of California Press.
PLUS: Chuck flips through the NRA’s official magazine before turning the gun on himself, and Question From Hell.
Theorist Albena Azmanova explores the new realities of precarity capitalism, the failures of class struggle and her book "Capitalism on Edge: How Fighting Precarity Can Achieve Radical Change Without Crisis or Utopia" from Columbia University Press.
http://cup.columbia.edu/book/capitalism-on-edge/9780231195379
PLUS: Chuck passes on legal weed and the week in Rotten History.
Sociologist Brendan McQuade on his book "Pacifying the Homeland: Intelligence Fusion and Mass Supervision" and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen attends the theater of trauma.
Writer Matt Seaton on his New York Review Daily piece "The Strange Death of Social-Democratic England" / Designer Mike Monteiro on his book "Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It"
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/12/12/the-strange-death-of-social-democratic-england/
https://www.ruinedby.design/
Writer Jacob Hamburger on the French general strike, Macron, the Yellow Vests and his New York Times opinion piece "Fury in France."
Plus: Everything Chuck learned this year, and This Week in Rotten History...
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/10/opinion/france-strike-macron.html
Anthropologist Maya Mikdashi on her Jadaliyya report "Beyond the Lebanese Constitution: A Primer" / In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen defends profit.
PLUS: Chuck's favorite books of 2019.
https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/40318
Artist Pen Donovan on her book "School is Stupid: Notes from the Classroom." / Sociologist Nicole Aschoff on her Jacobin article "Against Self-Driving Cars."
PLUS: Chuck's favorite books of 2019.
Sociologist Daniel Aldana Cohen explores the possibility of a people's energy program under a Green New Deal. Daniel is co-author of "A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal" from Verso.
PLUS: Chuck's favorite books of 2019 and This Week in Rotten History...
Student and Plateforme d'Enquêtes Militantes member Effix on the Yellow Vest movement today and tomorrow, and his group's text "Back to the Future: The Yellow Vests Movement and the Riddle of Organization."
PLUS: In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen tries on money-colored glasses.
https://www.viewpointmag.com/2019/11/15/back-to-the-future/
Writer Anne Nelson on the Council for National Policy's influence in government and conservative culture, and her book "Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right."
Writer Charles King on his book "Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century."
PLUS: Chuck is tired of seeing / not seeing his family, and This Week in Rotten History...
Historian David J. Silverman on the realities behind America's Thanksgiving myth and his book "This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving."
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/this-land-is-their-land-9781632869265/
Eli Meyerhoff on education radicalism, the capitalist university and his book "Beyond Education: Radical Studying for Another World" from University of Minnesota Press.
PLUS: Chuck can't wait to be miserable on Thanksgiving, and This Week in Rotten History...
Former CIA case officer Jeffrey Sterling on his book "Unwanted Spy: The Persecution of an American Whistleblower" from Bold Type Books.
https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jeffrey-sterling/unwanted-spy/9781568585581/
Journalist Jacquelyn Kovarik on her article "Bolivia’s Anti-Indigenous Backlash Is Growing" for The Nation.
https://www.thenation.com/article/bolivia-morales-whipala/
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on her book "Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership" / Franny Nudelman on her book "Fighting Sleep: The War for the Mind and the US Military"
Live from Caracas, journalist Lucas Koerner on his FAIR articles "Media Conceal Chile’s State Criminality, Delegitimize Bolivian Democracy" and "Whitewashing Neoliberal Repression in Chile and Ecuador."
https://fair.org/home/media-conceal-chiles-state-criminality-delegitimize-bolivian-democracy/
https://fair.org/home/whitewashing-neoliberal-repression-in-chile-and-ecuador/
Writer Liza Featherstone on her New Republic article "Moving Beyond Misogyny: Why do they hate us?" / Theorist Wendy Brown on her book "In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West" from Columbia University Press. / Brasilwire editor Brian Mier on the release of Brazilian political prisoner Lula da Silva.
Writer Curtis White on his book "Living in a World that Can’t Be Fixed: Reimagining Counterculture Today" / Sociologist Intan Suwandi on her book "Value Chains: The New Economic Imperialism."
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/611300/living-in-a-world-that-cant-be-fixed-by-curtis-white/9781612198088/
https://monthlyreview.org/product/value-chains/
Anthropologist Jason Pine on the industrial alchemy of meth in late capitalist America.
https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-alchemy-of-meth
PLUS: Chuck gets anti-capitalist ASMR tingles and the week in Rotten History.
Live from Santiago, organizer Bree Busk reports on Chile’s civil uprising against neoliberal authoritarian rule.
https://roarmag.org/essays/chileans-stand-fearless-in-the-face-of-repression/
PLUS: Jeff Dorchen examines some momentous events through the lens of The Great Emancipator, Mark Zuckerberg, and Question From Hell.
Social scientist Christine Scott-Hayward on the deep social cost of a money bail system.
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520298316/punishing-poverty
PLUS: Chuck explains what This Is Hell! actually is.
Journalist Luke O'Neil on his book "Welcome to Hell World: Dispatches from the American Dystopia" and Chuck explains what the show isn't.
Journalist Max Zirngast and his Jacobin article "Turkey’s War in Syria Is a War for Fascism."
https://jacobinmag.com/2019/10/turkey-syria-war-fascism-rojava-erdogan-isis-kurds
Plus: Chuck thanks Donald Trump for raising awareness about racism / Question From Hell
Religious studies scholar Tad Delay on the psychology and anti-politics of evangelicals, and his book “Against: What Does the White Evangelical Want?”
https://wipfandstock.com/against.html
PLUS: Chuck asks to speak to a manager.
Sociologist Miguel Martinez on urban democracy, a right to the city and his book "Squatters in the Capitalist City" from Routledge.
https://www.routledge.com/Squatters-in-the-Capitalist-City-Housing-Justice-and-Urban-Politics/Martinez/p/book/9781138856950
PLUS: Chuck watches Greta Thunberg, sitting alone / This week in Rotten History.
Writer Henrik Olav Mathiesen on his Dark Mountain Project essay "Cowboy Nation: Norway's Wild West fantasy" / Jeff Dorchen listens to a podcast about the Joker movie.
Andrea Boyles on Black community organizing five years after Ferguson. / Jenny Brown on the long fight for abortion access.
Journalist Madeleine Schwartz on her New York Review of Books article "Inside the Deportation Courts."
Political scientist Corey Robin on his book "The Enigma of Clarence Thomas" from Metropolitan Books.
Anthropologist Andrea Ballestero examines the future of water - as right and/or commodity / Writer Thomas Adams explores a history of corruption in United Auto Workers leadership / In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen notes the limits of Jewish exceptionalism
Benjamin Adles Wurgaft on the future of meat on planet Earth / Adam Kotsko on the evangelical mind under endtimes capitalism / Andrew Kennis on violence and fear in El Paso
Anthropologist Amelia Moore on tourism and climate collapse in The Bahamas. Amelia is author of "Destination Anthropocene: Science and Tourism in The Bahamas" from University of California Press.
Political theorist Jodi Dean on comrades, allies and political belonging. Jodi is author of the new book "Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging" from Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/books/3060-comrade
Policy researcher Kevin Cashman on his article "US Sanctions Are Designed to Kill" for Jacobin.
https://jacobinmag.com/2019/09/us-iran-sanctions-donald-trump-iran-deal-oil-banks
PLUS: Chuck on climate change and American exceptionalism.
No recycling the plastic disaster [19:35] / On protest violence [1:09:54] / The constitution, the right and power [2:07:09] / The dust up [3:20:53]
What's next in Hong Kong? [21:44] / Torture and the time bomb [1:07:05] / This generation of leftists [2:07:36] / On urban trauma [3:08:49] / For those we lost at sea [3:49:54]
On capital's holocaust [21:20] / The online spiral [1:11:57] / Healthcare and Black labor [2:10:30] / What the Green New Deal means [3:14:54] / Spiders [3:50:08]
Your bitter, blind, broke, gap-toothed radio host is back from his annual summer vacation, spent waist-deep in torn lottery tickets, car fumes and ceaseless exploitation and cruelty.
A history of the Bering Strait [19:36] / The limits of free speech [1:10:27] / A second chance for fascists [1:53:00] / Toward anti-racism [2:13:11] / The NYT's anti-Sanders campaign [3:04:08] / The Amazon up in smoke [3:36:14]
Recent interviews on visions of feminism.
Writer Jessa Crispin rejects today's mainstreamed, neoliberal feminism [13:22] / Laura Carlsen reports on the “First International Gathering of Politics, Art, Sport, and Culture for Women in Struggle” in Zapatista territory [57:29] / Historian Ashley D. Farmer examines the radical work of women in the Black Power movement [1:19:44] / Organizer Bree Busk explores the rise of a multisectoral, transversal feminist movement in Chile. [1:51:05] / Theorist Sophie Lewis explores the radical horizon of gestational politics [2:34:42] / Writer Zillah Eisenstein explains why the mounting crises we face cannot be reformed individually, but fought collectively. [3:14:55]
Your bitter, blind, broke, gap-toothed radio host Chuck Mertz talks about what he learned from going on another podcast last week.
Puerto Rico in the middle of something [23:50] / Urban-digital exclusion [1:07:14] / Omnicide [2:04:35] / A new understanding of global capitalism [2:58:32] / The Twittering and the Dread [3:51:59]
Hong Kong's protest wave [23:37] / Portugal's Carnation revolution [1:04:58] / In defense of public land [2:05:39] / On fugitive Blackness [3:10:15] / Stork tips [3:55:33]
Capital's heat engine [26:47] / The authoritarian horizon [1:11:30] / Imperialism and apartheid [2:06:30] / Buying Lincoln Park [3:08:24] / Thanks advisory conservatives [3:52:25]
Surrogacy radicalism [21:10] / Logic and the left [1:08:29] / Mobile home housing crisis [2:04:32] / The teachers' revolt [3:07:24] / The Astrocrats! [3:51:10]
Disinfo war on Venezuela [20:20] / Return to the politics of Stonewall [1:05:15] / Toward Chav solidarity [2:06:36] / The last 40 years of climate suicide[3:10:09] / Debate enthusiasm [3:55:16]
The promise of reparations [21:39] / Okinawan women and US occupation [1:11:48] / Towards a feminist, abolitionist socialism [2:13:47] / Torture in a US prison [3:02:30] / Limit break [3:46:32]
Highlight interviews from the first half of 2019. Featuring Marco Roth, Richard Seymour, adrienne maree brown, Barnaby Raine and Marshall Auerback.
Flood politics in the Midwest [22:10] / Rape and culture [1:0955] / How place makes race [2:12:55] / A strike education in Brazil [3:14:13] / Interview with a monster [3:45:55]
Recent interviews on America's Drug War.
Johann Hari on the first days of the war on drugs [1:05] / Lisa McGirr on Prohibition and state power [46:30] / Suzanna Reiss on empire and pharmaceutical dominance [1:23:05] / Sam Quinones on opiate distribution networks [2:06:45] / Donna Murch on racial capital, opioids and enforcement [2:51:20] / Jeff Dorchen on his supply of pills [3:40:36]
Against the EU [20:51] / Democracy when? [1:12:38] / Capital and the border [2:03:19] / Psychedelics past and future [3:04:48] / RIP Danny Thompson [3:46:26]
Capitalism and the 737 [19:59] / The road to socialism in America [1:05:55] / Why and how to do nothing [1:59:58] / The devil in the Green New Deal [3:02:56] / Nostalgia Time Again [3:28:45]
The future of infinite war [19:22] / Class in Black politics [1:08:52] / Whiteness in a box [1:56:57] / An empire of fake news [2:11:49] / Beef and the industrial food complex [3:03:24]
Ecosocialism or extractivism [18:54] / The new global borderlands [1:05:13] / Race, tech and the census [2:04:15] / The Biden problem [3:09:17] / Faults in our deflection [3:48:52]
The imperial hand in Brazil's coup [19:30] / The rise of Puerto Rico's punitive governance [1:07:23] / The racial line between drug war and opioid crisis [2:10:09] / Private equity pillages grocery stores [3:11:30] / Interkvetchionalism [3:50:55]
Erdogan and Erdogan's opposition [20:52] / Towards radical reparations [1:01:35] / Four years of US war in Yemen [1:58:20] / Rural America is a real place [2:44:41] / Infinite promise [3:31:59]
Poverty as ideology [20:52] / Mapping pipeline resistance [1:04:15] / US Christians funding Europe's far right [1:33:19] / Feminism for the 99% [2:02:19] / In Erdoğan’s grip [3:04:23] / The Crack in the Façade [3:46:26]
The politics of Jewphobia [19:42] / Black resistance to White supremacy [1:10:50] / A life fighting police violence [1:58:32] / Two paths to decarceration [3:12:27] / Purim is a weapon [3:51:21]
Venezuela and the global left [20:31] / Global debt supremacy [1:09:10] / Tribal border wall resistance [2:02:52] / With the Youth Climate Strike [2:35:44] / Chile's transversal feminism [3:06:02] / The economy of lies [3:52:49]
The radical potential of pleasure [22:43] / Deschooling as abolitionist practice [1:04:50] / The ends of the border wall [1:57:39] / US socialists and President Bernie [3:07:11] / The window and the view [3:45:53]
Violence in 21st century life [23:06] / Black abolitionists and the politics of violence [1:06:52] / Walmart and the planned economy [2:09:03] / Corporate cuisine in the 20th century [3:04:15] / In praise of snitches [3:47:59]
Journalist Miles Kampf-Lassin reports on the progressive wave that broke big in Chicago's 2019 elections - backed by the work of social movements and local activists, left candidates campaigning on working class policies challenged the power of neoliberal machine politics, maybe pointing towards a strategy for building electoral power for the people.
Miles wrote the In These Times cover story Chicago's Political Revolution.
Extremely early This Is Hell! interviews and clips.
First This Is Hell! opening [00:00] First Moment of Truth [01:23] Chuck on Princess Diana [09:44] April Oliver on being fired by CNN [23:34] Moment of Truth - Peoria [54:21] Gary Webb on CIA / crack [59:01] Ryan du Val on the Sistine dorm [1:34:18] Count Zero on Cult of the Dead Cow [1:48:41] Moment of Truth - Clinton's impeachment [2:17:15] Bob the gambler on gambling [2:23:35] Liz Palmer on Brat Magazine [2:39:40] Alex Heard on end times subculture [2:58:28] Moment of Truth - End of the century [3:32:08]
Drones over Somalia [20:27] / Gutting the IRS [1:03:40] / What is Democracy? [2:05:28] / Building dockworker solidarity [3:14:12] / Leftover vengeance [3:50:13]
Sri Lanka's political crisis [21:24] / Pay for the future with public money [1:04:36] / Steven Pinker doesn't understand global poverty [1:37:43] / A Brexit tour of British politics [2:07:50] / On the incarceration of Black woman in America [3:13:04] / Dinosaur fuel [3:54:00]
Liberalism and the New Atheists [23:39] / Colony, collapse in San Juan [1:04:16] / Yellow Vests still on [1:39:11] / Progress and other myths [2:07:37] / Human sex and robots [3:05:51] / Up on the farm [3:43:50]
Recent interviews about Russia.
Larry King on privatization and mortality after communism. [1:14] Andrew Cockburn on the political uses of a new Red Scare. [28:49] Peter Pomerantsev on watching Vladimir Putin's television. [1:05:28] Sean Guillory on hard times facing the Russian left. [1:47:20] Tony Wood on Putin's hand in post-Soviet Russian politics. [2:39:43] China Mieville on what Russia 1917 can teach the pre-revolutionary world. [3:25:06]
Climate realism, now [18:24] / On Hungary's slave law [1:04:07] / Meet the White Press [1:38:38] / The politics of sex work [2:10:06] / Rebellion or extinction [3:10:27]
Recent highlight interviews on capitalism.
Geoff Mann and Joel Wainwright explore the possible political and economic futures of a planet under rapid climate change. [1:08] Writer Maximillian Alvarez explores the sanctity of waste and ownership in the digital age. [50:36] Policy researcher Stacy Mitchell examines the rise and risk of Amazon's ascendant monopoly. [1:37:40] Writer Adam Kotsko explains why we are all trapped in the moral logic of neoliberalism. [2:15:05] Writer Pavlos Roufos dives deep into eight years of managed disaster for the Greek people under Europe's austerity regime. [2:56:25] In a moment of truth, Jeff Dorchen bites the invisible hand that feeds. [3:50:27]
Recent highlight interviews on capitalism.
Corey Pein examines work, death and disruption in the digital economy. [01:19] Julie Wilson views life within, and beyond, the neoliberal frame. [47:38] Nomi Prins explains how central banks became a global superpower. [1:32:46] Pavo Jarvensivu and Terre Vaden explore near future economics of a world in climate crisis. [2:19:14] Helena Norberg-Hodge looks towards localization, worldwide. [2:57:47] Jeff Dorchen imagines a world that can no longer afford itself [3:44:13]
The new language of capitalism [18:55] / Jacobin's Brazil problem [1:03:37] / Trump is not a fascist [1:35:54] / Russia without Putin [2:07:05] / 2018 in craft beer [3:06:09] / Strong [3:43:31]
Yellow Vests revolt [21:12] / When we talk about rape [1:07:14] / The human toll of American wars [2:03:52] / The Pistachio Wars [2:35:23] / Why we kill ourselves [3:11:58] / Full [3:48:20]
Solidarity beyond borders [20:30] / Beware suburban fascists [1:01:56] / Co-ops won't bridge the racial wealth gap [1:35:44] / Between Black thought and White ears [2:06:06] / Debate is stupid, don't change my mind [3:09:00] / 101 Welbutrins [3:47:48]
Between cops and White supremacists [20:31] / Reclaiming the Black past [1:03:44] / A history of America First [2:05:38] / Africa in the radical imagination [3:00:29] / What we became [3:51:00]
Producer Alex picks his favorite interviews of 2018, featuring: Roy Scranton, Radha D'Souza, Tithi Bhattacharya, Asad Haider, C. Riley Snorton and Max Haiven.
Voting is not "harm reduction" [23:33] / No future for Greece [1:04:46] / Cuba, capital and the 21st century [2:06:36] / Blame capitalism, not humanity [3:02:37] / On Some Bats of the Red Forest [3:41:39] / The Congressional ideology gap [3:58:53]
Writer Brendan O'Connor profiles the Proud, White face of ruling class violence in America [7:39] / Writer Malaika Jabali explores politics in a Black, Midwestern city abandoned by the Democratic Party. [35:50]
Live from Mexico City, correspondent Laura Carlsen reports on Trump, AMLO and the ends of NAFTA. / Journalist Rachel M. Cohen examines a 50 year shift - in people and politics - between cities and suburbs.
Eleanor Penny on Steve Bannon's European Dream [5:44] / Aaron Timms on a liberal order running out the clock. [36:45]
Detroit's housing chaos [25:29] / The new voter suppression [1:05:09] / The case for anti-authoritarianism [2:10:04] / Childcare under capitalism [3:06:36] / On microgenerations [3:49:45]
Interviews exploring the causes and effects of the 2008 financial crisis, featuring: Jeff Faux, Ann Pettifor, James Steele, Kai Wright, Robin Hanel and Michael Hudson.
Biophysical economist Paavo Järvensivu and philosopher Tere Vadén explore the near future of a world in capital and climate crisis. [16:52]
What's next for Brazil's left? [20:14] / Art under capitalism [1:06:27] / The Chapo style in American politics [2:03:40] / Black radicalism for the 21st century [3:08:24] / Some thoughts on racial thinking [3:45:08]
Recent interviews on neoliberal politics, global capitalism and the right's rise to power.
Recent interviews on capitalism, technology and systems of control - handpicked by Producer Leo.
A leftist voice lesson [22:14] / Towards ecosocialism [1:12:19] / A black+trans history [2:05:36] / Against loiter lawfare [3:08:22] / Not to be of use [3:45:35]
New life in the Anthropocene [28:32] / When Black athletes stand up [1:08:17] / How violence solves inequality [2:09:27] / The triumph of surveillance tech [3:10:02] / Goodbye Schnepp [3:51:59]
The death of media [21:24] / The poisoning of Flint [1:11:13] / Living on a dying planet [2:07:34] / Green revolution in Rojava [3:01:45] / Degenerates against fascism [3:43:03]
New populism in France [23:14] / America's Black pioneers [1:07:19] / How we built the wall [2:07:48] / Tech's fake resistance [3:11:39] / Space enough and time [3:53:13]