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This Is Hell!Listener Picks: What Direction for the French Left? / Jacob Hamburger
Journalist Jacob Hamburger examines the present state and future choices of France's left wing insurgent movement La France Insoumise - rebelling against the…
This Is Hell!Listener Picks: Palestinian Liberation and Separating Vengeance from Justice / Arielle Angel
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…
This Is Hell!Listener Picks: Following the Rules to the Heart of Bureaucracy / David Graeber
Anthropologist David Graeber explores the bureaucratic dimension that rules our lives, takes our money, and stretches between the public and private, the right…
This Is Hell!Listener Picks: Disability Is Everyone's Problem / Laura Mauldin
Chuck interviews sociologist Laura Mauldin on her Baffler piece "Care Tactics: Hacking an Ableist World." An installment of classic "Rotten History" segments…
This Is Hell!Listener Picks: Resistence Is Not Enough: On Labor, Strategy, and the Path to Power / Jane McAlevey
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…
This Is Hell!Journalist Who Exposed Cop Gangs Is Being Surveilled and Harassed by Cops / Cerise Castle
Award-winning investigative journalist and podcaster Cerise Castle returns to discuss her latest article at the Los Angeles Public Press, "How LASD surveilled…
This Is Hell!Israel Applies "Human Shield" Charge to Every Inch of Gaza / Neve Gordon
Neve Gordon on his Jewish Currents article (co-authored with Nicola Perugini), "A Legal Justification for Genocide." "Rotten History" by Renaldo Migaldi…
This Is Hell!Demonizing Opioids Has Unintended Consequences / Ann Neumann
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…
This Is Hell!Everglades Non-Profit Sues Former Scientist for Stealing Trade Secrets / Boyce Upholt
Award-winning investigative journalist Boyce Upholt returns to discuss his article at The New Republic, "An Everglades Scientist on Trial in Ron DeSantis’s…
This Is Hell!"Accomplice Liability" Laws Imprison Victims for Abusers' Actions / Shannon Heffernan
Shannon Heffernan of the Marshall Project discusses her article, "Serving Time for Their Abusers’ Crimes: The Marshall Project found nearly 100 people who were…
This Is Hell!"The Night Won't End" in Gaza / Kavitha Chekuru
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…
This Is Hell!The System Is Built on Insecurity / Astra Taylor
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…
This Is Hell!How Israel Became a Nuclear Power / Emma Claire Foley
Writer and filmmaker Emma Claire Foley on her Jacobin article, "How Israel Became a Nuclear Power." Check out Emma's article here…
This Is Hell!Ideologies of Climate Change / Tad DeLay
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…
This Is Hell!Armed Struggle for Black Liberation in Southern California / Gerald Horne
Historian Gerald Horne returns to the show to discuss his new book, "Armed Struggle?: Panthers & Communists; Black Nationalists and Liberals in Southern…
This Is Hell!Will the Revolution Be Funded? / Zac Chapman & Nairuti Shastry
Zac Chapman and Nairuti Shastry discuss their article at The Forge, "Will the Revolution Be Funded?," which is against big philanthropy and argues for…
This Is Hell!Israel's Complicity in Guatemalan Genocide / Mary Jo McConahay
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…
This Is Hell!White Supremacy Hamstrings Liberal Climate Agenda / Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
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…
This Is Hell!The Pentagon's Anti-Vax Campaign / Chris Bing
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…
This Is Hell!US States and Municipalities Foot the Bill for Israel's War Machine / Lucy Randall & Clark Randall
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…
This Is Hell!"From the River to the Sea" Means Freedom and Equality for All, Not Genocide of Jews / Stephen Zunes
Past guest Stephen Zunes returns to speak with us about his recent Truthout writing including, "Biden Continues to Provide Israel Billions for War Crimes,"…
This Is Hell!Architecture Firms Drive Ever-Larger County Jails / Amanda Abrams
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…
This Is Hell!Insulin Profiteering Kills / Edward Ongweso Jr. & Athena Sofides
Edward Ongweso Jr and Athena Sofides on their Baffler essay, "The Insulin Empire: How profiteers pushed a lifesaving drug out of reach." "Rotten History"…
This Is Hell!Israel's War on Hospitals Includes Imprisoning Doctors / Kavitha Chekuru
Kavitha Chekuru on her Intercept article, "Gaza's Stolen Healers: Hundreds of Palestinian Doctors Disappeared Into Israeli Detention." Check out Kavitha's…
This Is Hell!Ketamine / Dan Piepenbring
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…
This Is Hell!Revolution Will Always Be Illegal Under International Law / Jake Romm & Dylan Saba
Dylan Saba and Jake Romm discuss their n+1 article, "Acts Harmful to the Enemy," on international humanitarian law criminalizing revolution. After the…
This Is Hell!Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition / Silky Shah
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…
This Is Hell!Student Encampments Aren't a Danger to Jews. Crackdowns Are. / Hadas Thier
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…
This Is Hell!Democracy Is Bad for Israel / Murtaza Hussain
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…
This Is Hell!The Rise of the Tradwife / Sarah Bouillete & Astrid Lorange
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…
This Is Hell!We Have Not Had Enough Campus Protest in the US / Erik Baker
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…
This Is Hell!Columbia Professor Corrects Distorted Media Coverage of Campus Protests / Helen Benedict
Continuing our coverage of the campus protests for Palestinian freedom, Columbia Journalism Professor Helen Benedict joins us to discuss her Tom Dispatch…
This Is Hell!Weaponized Safety and Unhinged Police Crackdowns on American Campus Protests / Natasha Lennard
Natasha Lennard on "I’ve Covered Violent Crackdowns on Protests for 15 Years. This Police Overreaction Was Unhinged." Check out Natasha's article here…
This Is Hell!Musk, Greenwald, et al. Campaign Against Brazilian Democracy / Brian Mier
Correspondent Brian Mier on the Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting article, “‘I Knew They Had Fabricated a False Narrative’: An Interview with Estela Aranha on…
This Is Hell!Anti-Palestinian Racism Is Today's Accepted Racism / Jess Ghannam
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!Palestine Speaks for Everyone / Jodi Dean
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…
This Is Hell!Defunding UNRWA: From Containment to Destruction / Laura Robson
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…
This Is Hell!New Robber Barons Prevent Using Tech for the Common Good / Loretta Napoleoni
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"…
This Is Hell!Taking Down Fatphobia / Kate Manne
Kate Manne returns to talk about her book, “Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia.” Check out Kate's book here…
This Is Hell!India-Israel Worker Deal Looks like Indentured Servitude / Michelle Buckley & Paula Chakravartty
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…
This Is Hell!The US South's Elites Have Kept the Region Poor and Underdeveloped / Keri Leigh Merritt
Keri Leigh Merritt returns to discuss her Aeon article, "The southern gap: In the American South, an oligarchy of planters enriched itself through slavery…
This Is Hell!Accenture Is Taking Over Police Reform in LA County / Alec Karakatsanis & Hamid Khan
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…
This Is Hell!The Cloud is Material and Impacts the Environment / Steven Gonzalez Monserrate
MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society's Cloud Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate on his article, "The Cloud Is Material: On the Environmental…
This Is Hell!Judicial Supremacy in the US / Lisa Heinzerling
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…
This Is Hell!Hamas' Journey from Charitable Org to National Liberation Force / Assaf Kfoury
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…
This Is Hell!Lederhosen Nazis, "Dancing Queen," and other Vibes from CPAC 2024 / Gaby Del Valle
Gaby Del Valle on The Baffler Magazine article, “Lost at CPAC: The paranoid style in conservative politics.” "Rotten History" follows the interview. Check out…
This Is Hell!The Shoah After Gaza / Pankaj Mishra
Pankaj Mishra discusses his London Review of Books article, "The Shoah After Gaza." Check out Pankaj's article here…
This Is Hell!On Zionist Feminism / Sophie Lewis
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…
This Is Hell!Facebook, Instagram Censor Peaceful Pro-Palestinian Speech / Deborah Brown & Rasha Younes
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…
This Is Hell!Normalizing Slaughter / Oded Na'aman
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…
This Is Hell!Effective Antifascism Requires Understanding Fascism / Joan Braune
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…
This Is Hell!Can Humanity Survive AI? / Garrison Lovely
Garrison Lovely on his Jacobin article, "Can Humanity Survive AI?: With the development of artificial intelligence racing forward at warp speed, some of the…
This Is Hell!Jesus and John Wayne / Kristin Kobes Du Mez
Historian Kristen du Mez on her bestselling cultural history, "Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation." Check…
This Is Hell!Western Governments, Media Complicit in Genocide / Hamza Ali Shah
Hamza Ali Shah discusses his Jacobin article, “Western Governments Share Responsibility for Israel’s Crimes," and his Declassified UK writing, "‘Beheaded…
This Is Hell!The Erasure of Palestinian Society / Wendy Pearlman
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…
This Is Hell!Hindu Supremacism in India and the United States / Safa Ahmed
Indian American Muslim Council's Safa Ahmed on her Jacobin Magazine article, "The US Hindu Right Is Still Whitewashing the Gujarat Pogrom." "Rotten History"…
This Is Hell!The Fascism of Revisionist Zionism / Rick Perlstein
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…
This Is Hell!The Pentagon's Silicon Valley Problem / Andrew Cockburn
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…
This Is Hell!Nostalgia, Nationalism, and the US Militia Movement / Amy Cooter
Sociologist Amy Cooter joins This Is Hell! to discuss her new book from Routledge, "Nostalgia, Nationalism, and the US Militia Movement." After the interview…
This Is Hell!Guns Fuel US Anti-Immigration Politics / Emine Fidan Elcioglu
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…