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This Is Hell!Cold War on Five Continents / Aflred McCoy
Historian Alfred McCoy joins us to discuss his new book, "Cold War on Five Continents: A Global History of Empire and Espionage" from Haymarket Books. "The…
This Is Hell!How Humanity Needs To Be Rescued From Capitalism / Clara E. Mattei
Clara E. Mattei, a professor of economics at The University of Tulsa. She is the Founding President of FREE—the Forum for Real Economic Emancipation…
This Is Hell!The Assassination That Paved the Way for Trump’s Venezuela Attack / Séamus Malekafzali
Séamus Malekafzali returns to discuss his recent piece at The Nation, "The Assassination That Paved the Way for Trump’s Venezuela Attack: How Trump’s illegal…
This Is Hell!The Adventures Of The Narco-Elite / Maureen Tkacik
Maureen Tkacik makes her debut on This Is Hell! to talk about her new investigative piece for American Prospect, “The Narco Terrorist Elite”, which goes into…
This Is Hell!Coroners Complicit in Obscuring Violent Deaths in State Custody / Terence Keel
Terence Keel returns to discuss his new book from Beacon Press, "The Coroner's Silence: Death Records and the Hidden Victims of Police Violence." "The Moment…
This Is Hell!The Trail Of Sickness Thru Navajo Nation / Sarah Lazare
Sarah Lazare returns to This Is Hell! to talk about her new In These Times piece “They Worked Underground in the Uranium Mines. They've Been Surrounded by…
This Is Hell!The BBC's Gaza Fiasco / Daniel Trilling
Daniel Trilling returns to discuss his new Equator piece, "Inside the BBC’s Gaza Fiasco: How the world’s most trusted media organisation fell apart." Check out…
This Is Hell!A Trillion Dollar War Machine Keeps Americans Poor and at War / William Hartung & Ben Freeman
Quincy Institute scholars William Hartung and Ben Freeman join us to discuss their new book from Bold Type Books, "The Trillion Dollar War Machine: How Runaway…
This Is Hell!American Football's Long, Violent History / Michael Oriard
Professor Emeritus and pro footballer Michael Oriard joins us to discuss his new book from University of North Carolina Press, "Sanctioned Savagery: A History…
This Is Hell!The Downfall Of Liberal Civilization / Richard Seymour
Richard Seymour returns to This Is Hell! to talk about his new book "Disaster Nationalism: The Downfall of Liberal Civilization”, published by Verso Books…
This Is Hell!How the Tax Code Made an American Aristocracy / Ray Madoff
Legal scholar Ray Madoff joins us to discuss her new book from the University of Chicago Press, "The Second Estate: How the Tax Code Made an American…
This Is Hell!How The Prison Industry Dehumanizes And Profits / Bianca Tylek
Bianca Tylek speaks to This Is Hell! about “The Prison Industry: How It Works and Who Profits" that is published by the New Press. Bianca Tylek is one of the…
This Is Hell!Can One Change The World When Elections And Protests Fail? / Sasha Davis
Writer and researcher Sasha Davis speaks to This Is Hell! to talk about his new book “Replace The State: How To Change The World When Elections And Protests…
This Is Hell!Genocide and the Illusion of Western Civilization / Hamid Dabashi
Hamid Dabashi returns to This Is Hell! to discuss his new book from Haymarket Books, "After Savagery: Gaza, Genocide, and the Illusion of Western…
This Is Hell!How Capitalism Breeds Vector-Borne Disease / Brent Z. Kaup & Kelly F. Austin
Brent Z. Kaup and Kelly F. Austin join This Is Hell! to talk about their new book "The Pathogens of Finance: How Capitalism Breeds Vector-Borne Disease"…
This Is Hell!The Great White Hoax / Philip Kadish
Philip Kadish joins us to discuss his new book, "The Great White Hoax: Two Centuries of Selling Racism in America" from The New Press. "The Moment of Truth"…
This Is Hell!The Fascist Attempt To Take Over Yoga / Stewart Home
Stewart Home speaks to This Is Hell! about his new book "Fascist Yoga: Grifters, Occultists, White Supremacists, and the New Order In Wellness”, published by…
This Is Hell!Enshittification / Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow returns to This Is Hell! to discuss his new book from Verso, "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What To Do About It."…
This Is Hell!AI's Environmental Footprint / Ashley Dawson
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"…
This Is Hell!How Western Ignorance Has Been Plundering Africa / Bronwen Everill
Bronwen Everill joins This Is Hell! to talk about her new book "Africonomics: A History of Western Ignorance”, published by The New Press…
This Is Hell!The Global Economy Runs on Extraction / Laleh Khalili
Political Scientist Laleh Khalili joins us to discuss her new book, "Extractive Capitalism: How Commodities and Cronyism Drive the Global Economy" out now from…
This Is Hell!The Destruction of Democracy to Christianize America / Matthew Boedy
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…
This Is Hell!US Big Tech Supports Israeli Settler Colonialism / Omar Zahzah
Omar Zahzah joins us to discuss his new book, "Terms of Servitude: Zionism, Silicon Valley, and Digital/Settler-Colonialism in the Palestinian Liberation…
This Is Hell!The Political Economy of Immigration Detention / Nancy Hiemstra and Deirdre Conlon
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…
This Is Hell!Corporate Science Wants You to Buy the World a Coke / Susan Greenhalgh
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…
This Is Hell!On "Squirty Cream" and Other Items from the Mailbag / Chuck Mertz & the World's Best Audience
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…
This Is Hell!The Rich are Falling in Love with Antiracism / Jennifer C. Pan
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…
This Is Hell!The New Racial Regime / Alana Lentin
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…
This Is Hell!The American Dream Taken Over By Private Equity / Megan Greenwell
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…
This Is Hell!The Gaza Genocide in World-Historical Perspective / Gilbert Achcar
Gilbert Achcar joins us to discuss his recent book, "Gaza Catastrophe: The Genocide in World-Historical Perspective" (University of California Press). "This…
This Is Hell!US Sanctions Kill as Many People as Wars / Mark Weisbrot & Francisco Rodriguez
Mark Weisbrot and Francisco Rodríguez join us to discuss their Lancet article, co-authored with Silvio Rendón, "Effects of international sanctions on…
This Is Hell!You're on Your Own: MAHA Dismantles Public Health / Rob Wallace & Rita Valenti
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…
This Is Hell!Climate Justice Through Collective Liberation / Mikaela Loach
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"…
This Is Hell!Building Community to Sustain Liberation in Atlanta / Kamau Franklin
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…
This Is Hell!How the War in Gaza is Becoming the Crime of the Century / Suzy Hansen
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…
This Is Hell!Deep Background on Bukele's Gulags in El Salvador / John Washington
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…
This Is Hell!2020 Flashback: Generalized Precarity and Subversive Pragmatism / Albena Azmanova
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…
This Is Hell!Resisting "Cop City" in America's Most Surveilled, Unequal City / Micah Herskind
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…
This Is Hell!The Right's War on Gender is Also a War on Government / Paisley Currah
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…
This Is Hell!Fake Work / Leigh Claire La Berge
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"…
This Is Hell!Inventing "Invasion" / Molly Redden
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…
This Is Hell!Atlanta's Cop City Brought to You by Southern Capital / Mariah Parker
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"…
This Is Hell!Recognizing AI Hype and How People Can Fight Back / Emily Bender and Alex Hanna
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”…
This Is Hell!Subsidizing Crypto in the Climate Crisis / Candice Bernd
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…
This Is Hell!Overbroad Antisemitism Definitions Discipline the Jewish Diaspora / Lihi Yona & Itamar Mann
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…
This Is Hell!Interracial Labor Solidarity in the United States / Cedric de Leon
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…
This Is Hell!Enemy Feminisms / Sophie Lewis
Sophie Lewis returns to This Is Hell! to discuss her new book, "Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation" from Haymarket Books…
This Is Hell!Marx in America / Andrew Hartman
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…
This Is Hell!Neofeudalism and the New Class Struggle / Jodi Dean
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…
This Is Hell!A New History of the New World / Greg Grandin
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…
This Is Hell!What Paths Remain for Preventing Climate Apocalypse? / Malcolm Harris
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…
This Is Hell!A Genocide Foretold / Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges discusses his new book, "A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine." Check out Chris's book here…
This Is Hell!Copaganda / Alec Karakatsanis
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…
This Is Hell!Neoliberalism Turning To Nature To Defend Inequality / Quinn Slobodian
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…
This Is Hell!Pirate Care / Valeria Graziano and Tomislav Medak
Valeria Graziano, Marcell Mars and Tomislav Medak discuss their book, "Pirate Care: Acts Against the Criminalization of Solidarity." "The Moment of Truth" with…
This Is Hell!How Will History Judge Us After Gaza / Pankaj Mishra
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…
This Is Hell!How School Integration Failed Black Students / Noliwe Rooks
Noliwe Rooks returns to This Is Hell! to discuss her recent book, "Integrated: How American Schools Failed Black Children" from Penguin. "Rotten History" from…
This Is Hell!Covertly Manufacturing Consent for US Imperialism and Militarism in Hollywood / Tanner Mirrlees
Tanner Mirrlees on the new Cost of War paper from the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University entitled, "The Militarization…
This Is Hell!MAGA Rule by the Numbers / Lindsay Koshgarian
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…
This Is Hell!Sustaining a Politics of Extermination and Climate Chaos / Omar El Akkad
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…