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Long-form interviews with writers, thinkers and workers from around the world and across the spectrum of experience.
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Staten Island's Politics of Resentment / Dennis Hogan
25/09/2024 Duração: 02h06minWe 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-hogan Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell
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Gaza Genocide Divides the Organization of American States / Francesca Emanuele
18/09/2024 Duração: 01h16minCenter 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
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A Forceful History of Black Resistance / Kellie Carter Jackson
18/09/2024 Duração: 01h43minKellie 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-press Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell
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Wealthy States Outsource Their Borders to Poorer, Indebted States / Heba Gowayed
11/09/2024 Duração: 01h47minHeba 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-south Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell
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Heat, A History / On Barak
10/09/2024 Duração: 01h40minReturning to This is Hell!, On Barak, author of, "Heat, a History Lessons 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/paper Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell
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Welcome to the New Feudalism / Ben Norton
04/09/2024 Duração: 01h51minBen 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
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Louisiana Is a Testbed for a Fascist State Apparatus / Gabrielle Perry
28/08/2024 Duração: 01h42minGabrielle 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
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Academic Freedom Under Threat at Public Universities / Shilpa Jindia
27/08/2024 Duração: 01h32minShilpa 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-jindia Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell
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Torture Is Systemic in Israel's Prisons / Shai Parnes
21/08/2024 Duração: 01h40minShai 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.pdf Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell
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Why You Should Hate the Ruling Class for Its Obscene Wealth / Rob Larson
20/08/2024 Duração: 01h44minEconomist 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
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Far-Right, Anti-Immigration Riots in the UK / Daniel Trilling
13/08/2024 Duração: 01h44minDaniel 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-worse Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell
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Listener Picks: Peter Thiel's Dream of Capitalism without Democracy / Quinn Slobodian
07/08/2024 Duração: 01h09minHistorian 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/crackupcapitalism Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell
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Listener Picks: What Direction for the French Left? / Jacob Hamburger
06/08/2024 Duração: 56minJournalist 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
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Listener Picks: Palestinian Liberation and Separating Vengeance from Justice / Arielle Angel
05/08/2024 Duração: 01h12minOur 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-other Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell
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Listener Picks: Following the Rules to the Heart of Bureaucracy / David Graeber
31/07/2024 Duração: 01h02minAnthropologist 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
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Listener Picks: Disability Is Everyone's Problem / Laura Mauldin
30/07/2024 Duração: 01h11minChuck 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-mauldin Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
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Listener Picks: Resistence Is Not Enough: On Labor, Strategy, and the Path to Power / Jane McAlevey
29/07/2024 Duração: 01h04minOur 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
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Journalist Who Exposed Cop Gangs Is Being Surveilled and Harassed by Cops / Cerise Castle
24/07/2024 Duração: 01h38minAward-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
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Israel Applies "Human Shield" Charge to Every Inch of Gaza / Neve Gordon
23/07/2024 Duração: 01h26minNeve 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-genocide Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
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Demonizing Opioids Has Unintended Consequences / Ann Neumann
17/07/2024 Duração: 01h28minAnn 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-neumann Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell