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This Is Hell!Global Warming in India / Kamala Thiagarajan
Chuck talks to freelance writer, journalist, and Wire contributor Kamala Thiagarajan about her Wired.com article "India is Not Prepared for the Combination of…
This Is Hell!Strategic Degrowth / Susan Paulson
Latin Americanist Susan Paulson returns to the show to talk about her contributions to the collected edition "Degrowth & Strategy" published by Degrowth…
This Is Hell!The Borderline Police State / Reece Jones
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…
This Is Hell!Brazil Election Troubles / Brian Mier
Chuck welcomes back This is Hell! Brazil correspondent and writer for Brazilwire, and Telesur English, Brian Mier to talk about the upcoming elections in…
This Is Hell!Black Lives, Black Radicalism, and State Violence / Donna Murch
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 Is Hell!Attention Deficit Disorder vs. Capitalism
Independent scholar Laura Basu talks bout her OpenDemocracy article "Attention Deficit Disorder - The Anticapitalist Condition."
This Is Hell!Attention Deficit Capitalism
Chuck welcomes economics editor and scholar at the University of Utrecht Laura Basu to talk her OpenDemocracy article "Attention Deficit Disorder, the…
This Is Hell!Great Replacement World Tour / Pranay Somayajula
Chuck welcomes writer and journalist Pranay Somayajula to the show to talk about his Jacobin article "From Buffalo to India, the Right’s Demographic Paranoia…
This Is Hell!TIH20220607KallisPaulson
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…
This Is Hell!The War Against Children / Henry Giroux
Scholar, writer, professor, and cultural critic Henry Giroux talks to Chuck about his recent Counterpunch magazine article "Targeting Children - Killing Fields…
This Is Hell!Searching for American Utopia / Adrian Shirk
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…
This Is Hell!Power to the Neighborhoods / Joseph Marguelies
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…
This Is Hell!How Afghanistan was Broken / Aasim Sajjad Akhtar
Political scholar Aasim Sajjad Akhtar talks to Chuck about his Catlyst Journal article "Breaking Afghanistan." We also have a new Rotten History, and your…
This Is Hell!The Folly of Endless Growth / Dominic Boyer
Chuck interviews, Dominic Boyer, professor of anthropology at Rice University and Berggruen Institute fellow, who wrote the Noema Magazine article "Why We Have…
This Is Hell!The Homeless Industrial Complex / Tracy Rosenthal
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…
This Is Hell!Staff Picks: Myth of Whitness and Western Civilization / Ben Ehrenreich
Producer Sebastian muses on origin and utility of racial categories and introduces a 2019 interview with writer Ben Ehrenreich explains how Enlightenment-era…
This Is Hell!STAFF PICKS: Environmental Racism and Government Negligence
Producer Lindsey introduces a 2017 interview with Journalist Sharon Lerner, who reports on the Exxon Mobil refinery polluting the majority-black…
This Is Hell!Staff Picks: Real Estate Racism and Black Homeownership / Keeanga - Yamahtta Taylor
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…
This Is Hell!Medical Monopolies and Patents in the Age of Covid 19 / Alexander Zaitchik
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…
This Is Hell!Staff Picks: American Exceptionalism and Fascism / Danny Haiphong
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…
This Is Hell!Staff Picks: Love Poems to Black Women Prisoners in the United States / Damaris B. Hill
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…
This Is Hell!Staff Picks: The Fight for Abortions / Jenny Brown
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…
This Is Hell!STAFF PICKS: The Black Agenda Report / Bruce Dixon + Glen Ford
Alex plays two interviews with Black Agenda Report founders Bruce Dixon (Jan 2017) and Glen Ford (Dec 2008)
This Is Hell!Staff Picks: Connor Woodman / The Imperial Boomerang
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…
This Is Hell!STAFF PICKS: Feminism Beyond Capitalism / Jessa Crispin
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…
This Is Hell!STAFF PICKS: Producing Art and Resistance under Capitalism / Boots Riley
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…
This Is Hell!STAFF PICKS: Asad Haider / Beyond identity politics.
Writer Asad Haider explains how today's reductive form of identity politics acts as an obstacle to understanding and confronting oppression. FIRST BROADCAST…
This Is Hell!STAFF PICKS: Cedric Johnson / Race, Class, and the Policing of Inequality
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…
This Is Hell!STAFF PICKS: James Doucet Battle / The Biopolitics of Sugar
Anthropologist James Doucet-Battle on sugar, diabetes, racialized science and his book "Sweetness in the Blood: Race, Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes" from…
This Is Hell!STAFF PICKS: David Graeber / Bureaucracy and Bullshit Jobs
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…
This Is Hell!STAFF PICKS: Panashe Chigumadzi / Black humanity, Black worldlessness
Alex replays Chuck's Oct 2021 conversation with writer Panashe Chigumadzi on her article "The Cry of Black Worldlessness" for Africa Is A Country…
This Is Hell!STAFF PICKS: The Power of Pleasure Activism / Adrienne Maree Brown
Writer adrienne maree brown explores the radical, liberatory potential of pleasure - to reclaim the self from the bounds of oppression, to restore our…
This Is Hell!STAFF PICKS: Sarah Ihmoud / Sheikh Jarrah and Beyond
Anthropologist Sarah Ihmoud on the dynamics of colonialist violence and domination against indigenous people in Palestine and across the globe, connecting…
This Is Hell!STAFF PICKS: Ed Sutton & Natasha Lennard / Fascism - Where it comes from, and how to counter it
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…
This Is Hell!STAFF PICKS: Jodi Dean / The left and party politics.
Alex replays Chuck's interview with theorist Jodi Dean on her book "Crowds and Party" from Verso Books. [First broadcast January 23 2016]
This Is Hell!STAFF PICKS: Trevor Griffey / Financialization and the future of college teaching
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…
This Is Hell!STAFF PICKS: Gary Brecher + Mark Ames / Syria's war + Rich creeps
Dan replays interviews with Gary Brecher (The War Nerd) and Mark Ames. [First broadcast Oct 20 2012 and April 30 2011]
This Is Hell!STAFF PICKS: Cassie Thornton / Peer-to-peer feminist care.
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…
This Is Hell!STAFF PICKS: Adofo Minka / Prison uprisings and self emancipation.
Chuck returns! Plus Producer Alex replays Assistant Public Defender Adofo Minka on prisoner uprisings in St. Louis and across the United States [First…
This Is Hell!Cryptocurrency Will Not Liberate Us / Hadas Thier
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…