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Best of 2023: Solidarity for Palestinian Liberation / Arielle Angel from 2023-12-12T18:13:59
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 t...
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Best of 2023: Secret Power: Wikileaks and its Enemies / Stefania Maurizi from 2023-12-06T19:20:42
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...
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Best of 2023: Big Pharma Rigs the Game / Julia Rock from 2023-12-05T18:40:21
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 L...
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Best of 2023:"Luxury Emissions"Doom Us All / Christopher Ketcham from 2023-12-04T19:42:12
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."Aft...
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US Instrumental in Brazil's"Long Coup"/ Brian Mier from 2023-11-30T19:31:09
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 Perspective...
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Mental Health Stigma Won't Prevent Mass Shootings / Olivia Riggio from 2023-11-28T18:39:45
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 ...
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Inside the Mind of an"Ecoterrorist"/ Christopher Ketcham from 2023-11-27T21:39:37
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 arti...
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The Anti-Trans Panic and the Crusade Against Teachers / Kay Gabriel from 2023-11-21T20:22:43
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 Dorche...
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In Germany, Reflexive Defenses of Israel Suppress Critics / Susan Neiman from 2023-11-20T19:36:26
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 an...
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United Nations Denied Its Role in Haiti's Cholera Epidemic / Pooja Bhatia from 2023-11-14T18:22:09
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 f...
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Pentagon Finds No One at Fault for 2018 Drone Strike that Killed Somali Woman and Child / Nick Turse from 2023-11-13T21:40:02
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-O...
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In Western Media, History Began and Ended on October 7th / Saree Makdisi from 2023-11-09T19:31:10
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 bi...
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The Persistent"Man the Hunter"Myth / Faye Flam from 2023-11-08T20:33:30
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 t...
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Far Right Exploiting Gaza War to Spread Antisemitism and Islamophobia / Shane Burley from 2023-11-07T18:18:22
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 th...
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Staff Picks: The Enduring Siege of Gaza / Norman Finkelstein from 2023-11-02T19:06:53
We had to reschedule today's guest, Nick Turse, whose article on American drone strikes and civilian casualties in Somalia remains to be published. We will let you know when that interview will tak...
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The Global Food System Is a Recipe for Mass Death / George Monbiot from 2023-11-01T20:08:11
George Monbiot returns to This Is Hell! to discuss his recent article,"The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People: The astonishing story of how a movement’s quest for rural simplicity drifted into a fo...
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Blunt Force: 'Precision' Warfare Does Not Exist / Sophia Goodfriend from 2023-10-30T17:23:30
Sophia Goodfriend discusses her Baffler article,"Blunt Force: 'Precision' warfare does not exist,"on the war in #Gaza. Also, 'The Past Inside the Present"with Seb Wüpper on Money.
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Ecuador's Election Could Have Lasting Consequences / Mark Weisbrot from 2023-10-25T19:20:19
Center for Economic and Policy Research's Mark Weisbrot on his article,"Ecuador’s Election Could Have Lasting Consequences,"which was originally posted at Common Dreams: https://www.cepr.net/ecuado...
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We Need an Immediate Ceasefire in Gaza / Phyllis Bennis from 2023-10-24T18:51:28
Institute for Policy Studies' Phyllis Bennis on her recent writing, “As Israel and Gaza erupt, the US must commit to ending the violence — all the violence,” at The Hill and, “Both Israelis and Pal...
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Guantánamo Is Closing...at a Snail's Pace / Karen Greenberg from 2023-10-19T18:26:46
Karen Greenberg, Director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law, joins This is Hell! to discuss her latest article,"Closing Guantánamo?: Yes, at a Snail's Pace...but a Pace,"published i...
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Twitter's Death and Anti-Trans Strategies / Chrissy Stroop from 2023-10-18T17:27:33
openDemocracy's Chrissy Stroop on Twitter's death and what it means for the 2024 presidential election, and anti-trans activists taking a page from the anti-abortion movement's winning playbook. A...
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Palestinian Liberation / Arielle Angel from 2023-10-17T17:11:56
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.'"Check ou...
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Crypto and The Silicon Valley Scam Economy / Hadas Thier from 2023-10-12T18:14:25
Hadas Thier returns to talk about her Jacobin article,"The Rot of the Crypto Economy Goes Deeper Than Sam Bankman-Fried."Check out the article here: https://jacobin.com/2023/08/crypto-economy-sam-b...
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American Agriculture Is About Money, Not Food / Alan Guebert from 2023-10-10T20:15:37
Agricultural journalist Alan Guebert joins This is Hell! to discuss the historical roots, current state, and future of the United States' food production system. Check out Alan's Baffler article,"F...
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Feminism's Promise Is Not a Place Within Capitalism, It's a Place Beyond It / Jessa Crispin from 2023-10-04T20:21:23
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 sup...
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Greatest Hits: Indigenous Feminism + Buying&Selling Feminism / Sarah Manning&Andi Zeisler from 2023-10-03T19:20:14
Journalist Sarah Sunshine Manning discusses the politics of indigenous feminism - both inside today's Women's movement, and as a longer historical force in resistance to settler colonialism and env...
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Greatest Hits: Feminist and Neoliberal Wars on Crime / Aya Gruber and Donna Murch from 2023-10-03T00:25:12
Law scholar Aya Gruber examines the intersection of gender crime and criminal law in the mass incarceration era - and explains how 'tough on crime' policies towards domestic violence expanded the p...
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Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times / Samuel Moyn from 2023-09-29T22:27:58
Samuel Moyn, author of, “Liberalism against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times"Plus, Jeffrey Dorchen with a 'Moment of Truth,' and we're announcing our favorite answer to th...
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Ukrainian Victims of Russian Sexual Violence Seen as Collaborators / Alice Speri from 2023-09-27T10:10:06
The Intercept's Alice Speri joins This Is Hell! to discuss her report on Ukrainian victims of Russian atrocities being seen as collaborators. Then a Moment of Truth from Jeff Dorchen. Check out Al...
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US Pressured Pakistan to Remove Imran Khan / Murtaza Hussain from 2023-09-26T21:55:56
The Intercept's Murtaza Hussain on the Biden administration's role in ousting Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan for not taking sides in the Russia-Ukraine war, followed by another installment of R...
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Robot Police Dogs / Rod McCullom from 2023-09-25T17:51:59
Undark Magazine's Rod McCullom discusses his article,"Robot Police Dogs Are on Patrol, But Who’s Holding the Leash? Numerous cities have acquired dog-like robots for policing. Researchers say the l...
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#SayHerName: Black Women's Stories of Police Violence and Public Silence / Kimberlé Crenshaw from 2023-09-19T19:20:49
Kimberlé Crenshaw joins This is Hell! to discuss her new book, “#SayHerName: Black Women’s Stories of Police Violence and Public Silence” (Haymarket Books). Then, another dose of Rotten History fr...
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New York Socialists Won Big on Climate Change / Liza Featherstone from 2023-09-18T18:00:02
Liza Featherstone on her In These Times article,"New York Socialists Won Big On Climate. How Did It Happen?: We don’t have to settle for neoliberal half-measures."Seb looks inside history's most de...
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Movement Building Involves Discomfort / Kelly Hayes from 2023-09-14T00:20:23
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 ...
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A McKinsey Whisteblower Spills the Beans / Garrison Lovely from 2023-09-12T19:05:37
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 co...
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To Build an Abolitionist Future / Cherise Morris from 2023-09-11T17:26:52
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...
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Undercover with the New Alt-Right / Amanda Moore from 2023-09-06T17:50:58
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...
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The Evisceration of a Public University from 2023-09-05T21:47:15
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 har...
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The Great Reorganization of Sexuality and Gender / Hugh Ryan from 2023-08-30T21:03:41
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 Mome...
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Big Tech's Waste"Solutions"Are a Scam / Matthew King from 2023-08-29T16:40:46
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.'Suppor...
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Bond Villians / Clark Randall from 2023-08-28T17:39:41
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 u...
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The Kingdom of Private Equity / George Scialabba from 2023-08-23T18:05:48
The Baffler's George Scialabba on his latest article,"Kudzu: The kingdom of private equity."Support This is Hell! at https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
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The Rise of Uber and the Fall of the City / Katie J. Wells from 2023-08-21T19:37:09
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 Decl...
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The Rise of a New Left / Raina Lipsitz from 2023-08-15T17:59:33
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...
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Greatest Hits: Revolting Capital: Racism and Radicalism in Washington, DC / Gerald Horne from 2023-08-09T18:45:18
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).
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Greatest Hits: Texas Slavery, Jim Crow, and the Roots of US Fascism / Gerald Horne from 2023-08-08T21:51:42
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. Please show your app...
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Greatest Hits: The Political Economy of Blackness and Boxing / Gerald Horne from 2023-08-07T21:30:47
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 T...
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Greatest Hits: Race, Religion, Capital, and Slavery in the 16th Century Atlantic / Gerald Horne from 2023-08-02T19:55:06
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...
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Greatest Hits: Global White Supremacy and International Apartheid Resistance / Gerald Horne from 2023-08-01T20:28:09
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 oriente...
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Greatest Hits: The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism / Gerald Horne from 2023-07-31T21:11:39
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! int...
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Anti-Putin Russian Militia Has Ties to Neo-Nazi and Anti-Trans Figures / Ben Makuch from 2023-07-26T18:45:09
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 conne...
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The U.S. Could Still Do What's Right for Haiti / Jake Johnson from 2023-07-25T18:10:02
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.” Afterwards, Rotten History explores the Erfurt L...
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The Good Enough Momfluencer: Disavowing maternal fantasies is easier said than done / Sophie Lewis from 2023-07-24T17:35:13
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 ar...
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Breaking Predatory Brazil Narratives from the Imperialist North / Brian Mier from 2023-07-19T18:48:04
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...
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Field Notes from the Frontlines of the Government's War on the Left / Michael Gould-Wartofsky from 2023-07-18T17:58:31
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-Wartofsk...
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Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care / M.E. O’Brien from 2023-07-17T17:58:46
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 P...
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The Hopi Tribe Fights Arizona for Its Right to Water / Umar Farooq from 2023-07-14T18:13:50
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 ...
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Right-Wingers Push Death Penalty Reinstatement / Maya Schenwar from 2023-07-11T21:42:45
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 ca...
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Revolting Capital: Racism&Radicalism in Washington, D.C., 1900-2000 / Gerald Horne from 2023-07-10T18:38:52
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 'P...
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From the Vault: America's Empire is a Liability / Chalmers Johnson from 2023-07-05T18:06:07
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 (...
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From the Vault: Ending Neoliberal Power Creep and Financial Capitalism / Saskia Sassen from 2023-07-04T22:40:36
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...
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From the Vault: How Stupid Are We? / Rick Shenkman from 2023-07-03T23:33:17
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 Igno...
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From the Vault: The Christian Reconstructionists Taking Dominion in America / Jeremy Leaming from 2023-06-29T20:07:52
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 Amer...
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From the Vault: The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio / Derek Turner from 2023-06-28T19:36:09
Chuck is off for the next couple of weeks, you will be stuck with producer Will. This episode features an interview from July 7, 2007 with S. Derek Turner when he discussed what his group, Free Pre...
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The Shame of the Suburbs / Dave Denison from 2023-06-26T19:19:03
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 Ob...
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Unpacking the Myths Fueling the Right's Transphobia / Alex Hinton from 2023-06-21T19:02:21
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 t...
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How to Build the End of the World: In Defense of the Chaotic Protester / Miliaku Nwabueze from 2023-06-20T17:46:30
Miliaku Nwabueze talks with Chuck about her Scaliwag essay,"How to Build the End of the World: In Defense of the Chaotic Protester."
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A Primer on Cop City / Micah Herskind from 2023-06-19T17:56:28
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.” Mica...
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The Long Land War / Jo Guldi from 2023-06-14T17:41:17
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 ada...
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McMansions: American Apocalypse / Kate Wagner from 2023-06-13T18:04:50
McMansion Hell's Kate Wagner returns to discuss her new Baffler article, “Bad Manors: The McMansion as harbinger of the American apocalypse.”
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The Pandemic Isn't Over / Matt Mazewski from 2023-06-12T18:22:04
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 ...
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Our Ailing Bodies under Late Capitalism / Jennifer Lunden from 2023-06-07T18:20:35
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...
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Kissinger's Killing Fields / Nick Turse from 2023-06-06T17:07:58
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 an...
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"The Economy"is Hell: On Overproduction and Crypto / Trevor Jackson from 2023-06-05T16:59:38
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 Pri...
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The Warfare State Compromises our Welfare / Lindsay Koshgarian&Ashik Siddique from 2023-06-02T14:09:49
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 Welfa...
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Why Are We in Ukraine? / Benjamin Schwarz&Christopher Layne from 2023-05-31T19:33:01
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....
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The Christian Roots of Antisemitism and Racism / Magda Teter from 2023-05-24T18:54:21
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://pr...
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J. D. Vance Changes the Subject / Gabriel Winant from 2023-05-17T18:18:50
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/...
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Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy / Claire Provost&Matt Kennard from 2023-05-16T19:54:23
Chuck interviews Claire Provost and Matt Kennard on their book,"Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy."
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Vegetarianism as Surveillance and Punishment in India / Sharanya Deepak from 2023-05-15T17:35:09
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.
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The Pregnancy was the Crisis, Not the Abortion / Charlotte Shane from 2023-05-10T19:28:39
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-...
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Sudan: Making Sense of a Senseless War / Alex de Waal from 2023-05-09T17:25:25
Alex de Waal discusses the war inside Sudan and the impact of internal and external forces on the continued bloodshed.
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Decolonize Conservation / Ashley Dawson from 2023-05-08T17:09:02
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 Su...
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The Green Growth Delusion / Christopher Ketcham from 2023-05-03T18:25:22
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 ener...
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Unmaking Asian Excepionalism / Gauitra Bahadur from 2023-05-02T18:19:08
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 Presen...
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Peter Thiel's Dream of Capitalism without Democracy / Quinn Slobodian from 2023-04-26T19:12
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,"Globali...
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Worst Laid Plans: Foreign Policy Is Politics / Simon Waxman from 2023-04-25T18:50:36
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 W...
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Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream / Alissa Quart from 2023-04-24T17:43:55
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 Re...
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Brandon Johnson Will Have to Beat Capital Strikes in Chicago / Kevin Young from 2023-04-20T19:54:33
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...
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Silicon Valley Vs. Humanity / Malcolm Harris from 2023-04-19T17:26:27
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...
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Big Oil's Counterinsurgency after Standing Rock / Alleen Brown from 2023-04-18T23:03:14
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: Aft...
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Secret Forever Wars and the Obscure Laws That Allow Them / Katherine Yon Ebright from 2023-04-13T18:59:09
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 le...
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Fast Food's Bad Bargain For Black America / Naa Oyo A. Kwate from 2023-04-12T18:31:30
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...
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Living and Reliving the U.S. Invasion of Iraq / Rasha Al Aqeedi from 2023-04-10T17:28:43
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...
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The Lost Pandemic Tapes: Dissent at a Dead End / Malcolm Harris from 2023-04-05T16:46:54
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 Harr...
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Pandemic Tapes: Cuban Healthcare Shames Us / Helen Yaffe from 2023-04-04T17:21:06
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 s...
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On Coerced Labor and Work Without Employment from 2023-04-03T17:16:08
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, employer...
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The Tragic Legacy of the Iraq War / Murtaza Hussain from 2023-03-30T02:37:41
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
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The Lost Cause Against Reconstruction / Kidada Williams from 2023-03-27T18:43:42
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.
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Weapons of Mass Distraction / Chris Toensing from 2023-03-23T18:04:07
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 t...
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Freedom Dreams of Feminism / Robin D. G. Kelley from 2023-03-21T16:47:30
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 C...
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Botching the Coverage of a Bank Run / Dean Baker from 2023-03-20T18:21:23
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 irresp...
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Hyperviolent Supercops Assassinate With Impunity / Michael Gould-Wartofsky from 2023-03-15T17:51:02
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 ...
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Atrophy and the After Life in COVID-19 Infected America / Keri Leigh Merritt from 2023-03-14T16:39:45
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 epi...
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The Blood of the Congo Powers Our Tech / Siddharth Kara from 2023-03-13T18:31:12
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 m...
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Ethiopia's New Dam Tilts the Balance of Power / Ann Neumann from 2023-03-08T19:23:59
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 H...
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Identifying American Violence / Ariane Chebel d'Appollonia from 2023-03-07T18:15:58
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...
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Daddy DeSantis' Sunshine Imperium from 2023-03-06T18:20:18
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 resp...
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Is the Next Pandemic Inevitable? / Caroline Chen from 2023-03-01T18:46:08
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.
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Pretty Good Housing For All / Dan Kolbert from 2023-02-28T17:52
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 cont...
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Poverty Amid Plenty / Liz Theoharis from 2023-02-27T18:01:30
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 Peo...
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Nationalize the Railroads Now / Kari Lyderson from 2023-02-22T18:16:02
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 electr...
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Clean Up or Cover Up? ChemTrain Capitalists&Lobbied Lawmakers Say"Trust Our Tests"/ Prem Thakker from 2023-02-21T18:29:11
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 bee...
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Trump 2024 wants to Make Executions Exciting Again? / Asawin Suebsaeng from 2023-02-20T18:17:14
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...
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Remembering the"Good"War / Elizabeth Samet from 2023-02-15T18:35:05
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.
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Big Poultry Breeds Bird Flu and asks Consumers to Pay the Price / Boyce Upholt from 2023-02-14T17:57:09
Boyce Upholt 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"....
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Suppression of the Black Vote Fuels Fascism / Clarence Lusane from 2023-02-13T18:43:28
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. ...
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Revolutionary Palestinian Futures / Noura Erakat from 2023-02-09T18:28:15
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 ca...
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The Revolution will not be Scheduled / Sheila Liming from 2023-02-08T18:27:07
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 ...
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COVID-19, Continued / Rob Wallace from 2023-02-07T19:40:57
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...
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Coplovers Hit Back Against Reforms With Fearmongering / Katya Schwenk from 2023-02-01T18:26:19
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 Quest...
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Fear of Black Consciousness / Lewis Gordon from 2023-01-31T18:15:26
Dr. Lewis Gordon, department head and professor of philosophy at the University of Connecticut, discusses his most recent book titled, Fear of Black Consciousness. This episode also features this w...
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For Tortuguita and the Trees: Stopping Cop City / Rachel Garbus from 2023-01-28T00:00
Recorded Monday, January 30th 2023, we speak with Rachel Garbus, a writer and editor based in Atlanta. Rachel discusses her piece recently published on Welcome to Hell World titled,"Stopping Cop C...
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The Lost Interviews pt. 3 / Max Haiven from 2023-01-25T18:05:28
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, “N...
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The Lost Interviews Pt. 2 / Eileen Applebaum from 2023-01-24T19:17:56
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 acros...
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The Lost Interviews Pt. 1 / Vijay Koinjivadi from 2023-01-23T17:41:14
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 t...
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Big Pharma Rigs the Game and Gouges Away / Julia Rock from 2023-01-18T18:03:55
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 co...
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Limbo: War Crime and Punishment / Rebecca Gordon 2016 from 2023-01-17T18:17:12
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!...
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Brazil's fight against Fascism / Brian Mier from 2023-01-16T19:25:01
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 ...
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The Blind Greed of the Ultra Rich Dooms Us All / Christopher Ketcham from 2023-01-11T18:49:51
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."
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Secret Power: WikiLeaks and its Enemies / Stefania Maurizi from 2023-01-10T18:02:09
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...
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Not All Crypto Bros / Esmé von Hoffman from 2023-01-09T18:19:17
Filmmaker and journalist Esmé von Hoffman talks with Chuck Mertz about her recent article"I Heard it was Safe"published by The Lever. Also featuring a new Past Inside the Present from Sebastian W...
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BEST OF 2022: Gentrified Tripping and Legal Psychedelics / Roberto Lovato from 2023-01-05T18:54:26
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 ...
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Best of 2022: The Homeless Industrial Complex / Tracy Rosenthal from 2023-01-04T17:55:40
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 f...
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BEST of 2022: Florida Will Try to Kill You / CD Davidson-Hiers and Jeff VanderMeer from 2023-01-03T18:38:36
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 fea...
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BEST of 2022: The Election in Brazil / Brian Mier from 2022-12-28T17:54:34
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 N...
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BEST of 2022: Family Policing Protects White Supremacy / Dorothy Roberts from 2022-12-27T19:56:30
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...
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BEST OF 2022: Criminalization of Pregnancy / Kate Manne from 2022-12-26T17:44:51
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...
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BEST OF 2022: The Counter-Revolution of 1836 / Gerald Horne from 2022-12-21T17:56:07
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...
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BEST OF 2022: Disability is Everybody's Problem / Laura Mauldin from 2022-12-20T18:21:50
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 ...
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Best of 2022 Sex Workers are the Vanguard of Labor / Heather Berg from 2022-12-19T18:37:40
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 ar...
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The Super-Rich Spew Toxic Sludge Into Our Water / Michael Hawthorne from 2022-12-14T18:22:09
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 focuse...
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Staff Picks / Maya Schenwar + Victoria Law from 2022-12-13T18:53:32
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 ...
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Who Gentrifies the Gentrifiers? / Leslie Kern from 2022-12-12T19:28:29
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 I...
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Staff Picks: Wesley Willis from 2022-12-08T20:51:55
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 b...
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Monstrous Torture by the Depraved Police / Flint Taylor from 2022-12-07T18:45:44
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 w...
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Death by (Online-)Advertising / Matthew Crain from 2022-12-05T18:40:26
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 p...
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Chicago's Housing Crisis / Mick Dumke from 2022-11-30T20:11:32
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 Chica...
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The Meat Merchants Feeding Climate Catastrophe / Spencer Roberts and Jan Dutkiewicz from 2022-11-29T18:36:42
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://n...
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Policing ourselves out of Democracy / Austin McCoy from 2022-11-28T19:15:08
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 in...
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STAFF PICKS: How Black Girls are Criminalized / Monique Morris from 2022-11-23T17:20:36
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 col...
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STAFF PICKS: Ecosocialism vs Extractivism / Thea Riofrancos 2019 from 2022-11-22T18:59:52
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...
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STAFF PICKS: Corruption Ball - FIFA's Bribery Scandals / Patrick Bond from 2022-11-21T18:29:53
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 sca...
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Democracy in Iran / Nojang Khatami from 2022-11-09T20:15:54
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 w...
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The Elite Academic Experts Propagating the Police State / Alec Karakatsanis from 2022-11-08T18:03:46
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 ...
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The Road to Partisan Violence in America / Lilliana Mason from 2022-11-07T18:59:33
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...
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Staff Picks: John Perkins, 2007-8 from 2022-11-02T16:43:34
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!
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Staff Picks: Jenny Odell, 2019 from 2022-11-01T18:51:25
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/...
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Staff Picks: Michael Parenti, 2005 from 2022-10-31T18:19:53
We revisit an interview with Michael Parenti from November 2005. Chuck is back next week.
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Suburbia's Bad Bargain for American Immigrants / Sudip Bhattacharya from 2022-10-26T19:15:09
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 ...
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Power, Corruption, and Lies in Brazil's Presidential Election / Brian Mier from 2022-10-25T17:23:42
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 thi...
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Florida Will Try To Kill You / CD Davidson-Hiers and Jeff VanderMeer from 2022-10-24T19:15:13
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...
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The Legacy of Harold Washington / Joe Winston from 2022-10-19T19:14:19
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 ...
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A Tradition of Violence: Los Angeles County Sheriff Deputy Gangs / Cerise Castle from 2022-10-18T17:07:08
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...
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Whither the Left? / Jodi Dean from 2022-10-17T19:59:40
We have on Jodi Dean, author of,"Socialist Reconstruction, A Better Future for the United States."
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The War on the Poor / Liz Theoharis from 2022-10-12T19:17:53
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 Ca...
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The Disappearing Art of Maintanence / Alex Vuocolo from 2022-10-11T16:46:49
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...
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Collapse in Afghanistan / Elyas Nawandish from 2022-10-10T18:22:15
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, t...
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The Surveillance State and Muslim America / Fatema Ahmad from 2022-10-05T21:10:15
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 s...
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Abolish the Family / Sophie Lewis from 2022-10-04T16:52:53
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...
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How to Steal a Forest / Lyndsie Bourgon from 2022-10-03T17:43:18
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....
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Reparations In Evanston / Kari Lydersen from 2022-09-28T20:08:04
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 fo...
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The Inflation Gun Aimed At Labor Power's Head / Hadas Thier from 2022-09-27T21:07:50
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!, an...
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To Degrow or Not to Degrow? / Andrea Vetter&Matthias Schmelzer from 2022-09-26T17:24:20
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.versob...
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Epidemiology and the Poultry Industry / Boyce Upholt from 2022-09-21T17:48:11
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 h...
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Carbon Footprints vs. Carbon Bootprints: Climate Change Class War / Matthew Huber from 2022-09-20T17:21:55
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 o...
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Guilty Until Further Notice / Daniel Medwed from 2022-09-19T18:09:46
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 t...
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Big Alcohol vs. Working Class Joy / James Wilt from 2022-09-14T20:28:34
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...
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Family Policing Punishes Poor Families and Protects White Supremacy / Dorothy Roberts from 2022-09-13T17:51:41
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 an...
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SCOTUS v. Democracy / Steve Fraser from 2022-09-12T19:09:11
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., ...
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The Supreme Court - Guardrail against Excessive Democracy / Steve Fraser from 2022-09-12T19:06:49
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 h...
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Naturally Noxious: Misplaced Faith in Appalachian Natural Gas Industry / Sean O'Leary from 2022-09-06T17:23:23
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 Cur...
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The History of Personhood in the Abortion Debate / Brianna Muir from 2022-08-31T19:23:42
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 surprisin...
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Leaving the Ivy League / William Deresiewicz from 2022-08-30T17:49:43
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...
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Flooding in Eastern Kentucky / Tarence Ray from 2022-08-29T18:50:26
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 wor...
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How Bad is Inflation? / Dean Baker from 2022-08-24T19:16:02
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 t...
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Lessons From the Cold War / Penny M. Von Eschen from 2022-08-23T19:22:46
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 Pr...
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Disability is Everybody's Problem / Laura Mauldin from 2022-08-22T17:41:44
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. Als...
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Heather Berg / The Stripper in the Coal Mine: Sex Work and Labor Rights from 2022-08-18T18:31:09
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 winni...
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Jobs Disparity, Mass Incarceration, and Crypto in Black America / Algernon Austin from 2022-08-17T22:06:49
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 Mas...
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Dispatches from the Viral Underclass / Steven Thrasher from 2022-08-16T17:11:19
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 Cur...
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STAFF PICKS: Producing Art and Resistance under Capitalism / Boots Riley from 2022-05-03T16:43:39
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 surr...
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STAFF PICKS: Asad Haider / Beyond identity politics. from 2022-05-02T20:30:32
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.
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STAFF PICKS: Cedric Johnson / Race, Class, and the Policing of Inequality from 2022-04-28T19:10:26
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 ...
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STAFF PICKS: James Doucet Battle / The Biopolitics of Sugar from 2022-04-27T21:37:44
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.upres...
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STAFF PICKS: David Graeber / Bureaucracy and Bullshit Jobs from 2022-04-26T20:53:32
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/...
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STAFF PICKS: Panashe Chigumadzi / Black humanity, Black worldlessness from 2022-04-25T18:10:01
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-blac...
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STAFF PICKS: The Power of Pleasure Activism / Adrienne Maree Brown from 2022-04-21T17:24:31
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...
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STAFF PICKS: Sarah Ihmoud / Sheikh Jarrah and Beyond from 2022-04-20T16:41:54
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 ar...
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STAFF PICKS: Ed Sutton&Natasha Lennard / Fascism - Where it comes from, and how to counter it from 2022-04-19T21:10:55
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 ...
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STAFF PICKS: Jodi Dean / The left and party politics. from 2022-04-18T18:24:38
Alex replays Chuck's interview with theorist Jodi Dean on her book"Crowds and Party"from Verso Books. [First broadcast January 23 2016]
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STAFF PICKS: Trevor Griffey / Financialization and the future of college teaching from 2022-04-14T20:43:35
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 Prof...
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STAFF PICKS: Gary Brecher + Mark Ames / Syria's war + Rich creeps from 2022-04-13T21:13:35
Dan replays interviews with Gary Brecher (The War Nerd) and Mark Ames. [First broadcast Oct 20 2012 and April 30 2011]
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STAFF PICKS: Cassie Thornton / Peer-to-peer feminist care. from 2022-04-12T18:02:05
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...
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STAFF PICKS: Adofo Minka / Prison uprisings and self emancipation. from 2022-04-11T18:23:51
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]
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Cryptocurrency Will Not Liberate Us / Hadas Thier from 2022-03-02T22:56:20
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 pr...
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On cannabis corporatization / Mary Jane Gibson from 2022-03-02T01:16:40
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-triangl...
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Capital's migration policy / Daniel Melo from 2022-03-01T01:10:02
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-imperat...
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Medical AI and automating mental healthcare / Os Keyes from 2022-02-25T01:00:52
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/
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On prison education / Daniel Fernandez from 2022-02-23T19:13:05
Writer Daniel Fernandez on his article"The Classroom and the Cell"for The Baffler. https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-classroom-and-the-cell-fernandez
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Race and space in America / Elijah Anderson from 2022-02-23T00:58:39
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/bo...
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Fire and the modern world / Daniel Immerwahr from 2022-02-10T21:42:14
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...
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Maritime insurers and the US founding / Hannah Farber from 2022-02-08T22:15:02
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 Universi...
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Dirty energy politics in Ohio / Nathanael Johnson from 2022-02-07T21:21:37
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-sc...
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The state, the unhoused and performative productivity / Deyanira Nevárez Martínez from 2022-02-03T20:06:10
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"fo...
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Crop diversity and agricultural crisis / Helen Anne Curry from 2022-02-01T21:02:03
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/endang...
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Neoliberalism and the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally / Catherine McNicol Stock from 2022-01-31T19:26:36
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...
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Vaccine apartheid politics / Kevin Klyman from 2022-01-27T22:39:29
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...
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Protecting rainforest protectors / Ashwin Ravikumar from 2022-01-26T22:21:42
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-troubl...
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When the rich take space / Corey Pein from 2022-01-24T22:42:34
Writer Corey Pein on his article"Dawn of the Space Lords"for The Baffler. https://thebaffler.com/salvos/dawn-of-the-space-lords-pein
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Kazakhstan's Oyan protest movement / Paolo Sorbello from 2022-01-20T20:40:16
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 w...
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Psychedelic inequality / Roberto Lovato from 2022-01-19T19:58:59
Writer Roberto Lovato on his article"The Gentrification of Consciousness"for Alta Journal. https://www.altaonline.com/dispatches/a38326035/psychedelic-drugs-gentrification-roberto-lovato/
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Today's militia movement / Amy Cooter from 2022-01-18T18:10:22
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...
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Carbon dominance / Jeff Nesbit from 2022-01-12T21:45:47
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 ha...
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Student loan debt numbers don't add up / John R. Brooks from 2022-01-11T20:54:22
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/
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Radical hope and apocalyptic cynicism / Henry Giroux from 2022-01-10T21:15:05
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-embrac...
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Climate change's mirror worlds / Aaron Vansintjan from 2022-01-05T21:06:12
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...
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Sanctions are a weapon / Nicholas Mulder from 2022-01-04T21:28:01
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
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Frederick Douglass in Haiti / Peter James Hudson from 2022-01-03T19:31:57
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/
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2021 FAVORITE: Alexander Zaitchik / Bill Gates and vaccine monopolism from 2021-12-31T15:47:03
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.
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2021 FAVORITE: Craig Robertson / The filing cabinet from 2021-12-30T15:20:38
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.
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2021 FAVORITE: Adam Zmith / On poppers and queer utopia from 2021-12-29T14:50:39
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.
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2021 FAVORITE: Ben Ehrenreich / Global suicide from 2021-12-28T15:23:14
April conversation with writer Ben Ehrenreich on his article"We're Hurtling Toward Global Suicide"for The New Republic. Suggested by Joel and Pete.
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2021 FAVORITE: Tanvi Misra / Broader Crises from 2021-12-27T14:20:33
July conversation with writer Tanvi Misra on her article"Broader Crises"for The Baffler. Suggested by Jeff G, David G. and Derek B.
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2021 FAVORITE: James K. Galbraith / Modern Monetary Theory from 2021-12-24T14:20:33
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.
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2021 FAVORITE: Cerise Castle / LA's police gangs from 2021-12-22T16:03:26
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...
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2021 FAVORITE: Mimi Sheller / Island Futures: Caribbean Survival in the Anthropocene from 2021-12-21T15:32:58
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.
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2021 FAVORITE: Chris Tomlinson / Forget the Alamo from 2021-12-21T15:26:30
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 ...
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Why workers quit working / David Dayen from 2021-12-15T20:47:27
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-qui...
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On science and colonialism / Max Liboiron from 2021-12-14T20:35:04
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
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Social control in early 20th century Chicago / Martin Billheimer from 2021-12-14T00:09:26
Writer Martin Billheimer on his book"Mother Chicago: Truant Dreams and Specters Over the Gilded Age"from Feral House. https://feralhouse.com/mother-chicago/
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On school surveillance / Chelsea Barabas from 2021-12-09T20:40:18
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/
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When conservation swallows Black farmland / Tony Briscoe from 2021-12-08T21:13:43
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/conservatio...
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Toxic air and America's sacrifice zones / Ava Kofman from 2021-12-07T20:47:25
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. h...
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Coups and counterrevolutions in Sudan / Magdi el-Gizouli from 2021-12-02T19:56:44
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/counterrevol...
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Growing food and getting free / C.E. from 2021-12-01T22:16:13
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/
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The futilitarian condition / Neil Vallelly from 2021-11-30T20:48:13
Neil Vallelly on his book"Futilitarianism: Neoliberalism and the Production of Uselessness"from MIT Press. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/futilitarianism
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The path of the East African crude oil pipeline / Alex Tumuhimbise + Emily Holden from 2021-11-23T21:49:28
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 a...
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Black and native lives in US history / Kyle T. Mays from 2021-11-23T01:26:51
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
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Wisconsin's BLM under surveillance | Isiah Holmes from 2021-11-16T22:02:57
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-th...
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Death and life in Texas jails / Michael Barajas from 2021-11-15T20:57:55
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/
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Activism, policing and the Chicago city budget / Jasson Perez from 2021-11-10T21:44:14
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 envi...
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Consumption at the end of growth / Ajay Singh Chaudhary from 2021-11-09T22:49:12
Writer Ajay Singh Chaudhary on his article"The Extractive Circuit"for The Baffler. https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-extractive-circuit-singh-chaudhary
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Climate and conflict in Darfur / Jérôme Tubiana from 2021-11-08T20:46:01
Journalist Jérôme Tubiana on his article"Land of Thirst"for The Baffler. https://thebaffler.com/salvos/land-of-thirst-tubiana
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Border walls and the climate crisis / Nick Buxton from 2021-11-03T18:12:22
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
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Inside the Amazon warehouse / Alessandro Delfanti from 2021-11-01T19:27:23
Alessandro Delfanti on his book"The Warehouse: Workers and Robots at Amazon"from Pluto Press. https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745342177/the-warehouse/
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Inflation politics / Rob Larson from 2021-10-27T18:11:27
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...
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On poppers and queer utopia / Adam Zmith from 2021-10-26T20:01:51
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/
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Free people of color in the Antebellum South / Warren Eugene Milteer Jr. from 2021-10-25T18:31:49
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-s...
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Black humanity, Black worldlessness / Panashe Chigumadzi from 2021-10-22T13:35:35
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/...
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On fatigue / Emily K. Abel from 2021-10-19T20:26:02
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/
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Bodily autonomy and abortion justice / Judith Levine from 2021-10-13T17:58:42
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-s...
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On dynastic wealth in America / Chuck Collins from 2021-10-12T19:57:41
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/
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Prison reform, carceral expansion / Kay Whitlock + Nancy A. Heitzeg from 2021-10-11T19:22:29
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/carce...
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Inside the Pandora Papers / Michael Hudson from 2021-10-06T18:28:35
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...
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The state and the autonomous zone / Stellan Vinthagen from 2021-10-05T22:37:11
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-radicali...
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Pandemic food system politics in North Africa / Sylvia Kay + Hamza Hamouchene from 2021-10-04T20:47:17
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.tn...
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The financialized university disaster / Kelly Grotke from 2021-09-23T00:22:52
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://pros...
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Brutality, capitalism, revenge / Max Haiven from 2021-09-21T20:55:14
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-cap...
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Pearls for empire / Molly A. Warsh from 2021-09-20T20:29:53
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/
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Yukon salmon collapse / Zachariah Hughes from 2021-09-15T21:26:50
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-ki...
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Faith and work on the slaughterhouse floor / Kristy Nabhan-Warren from 2021-09-14T20:28:29
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/
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Neoliberal jihad / Suzanne Schneider from 2021-09-13T17:50:15
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
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The politics of disinformation / Joseph Bernstein from 2021-09-08T20:39:30
Journalist Joseph Bernstein on his report"Bad News"for Harper's. https://harpers.org/archive/2021/09/bad-news-selling-the-story-of-disinformation/
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The social movement left and Chile’s new constitution / Bree Busk from 2021-09-08T02:02:45
Bree Busk on her article"Defending the legacy of Chile’s 2019 uprising"for ROAR Magazine. https://roarmag.org/essays/chile-constitutional-convention-loncon/
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What the US government knew about climate change / James Gustave Speth from 2021-09-02T21:48:06
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 ...
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Disability, abolition, emancipation / Keith Rosenthal from 2021-09-01T18:01:14
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-ana...
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Racism, medical inequality and Black health / Anne Pollock from 2021-08-30T18:16:39
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-divi...
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The ends of Roman history / Edward J. Watts from 2021-08-25T22:42:57
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-declin...
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The Taliban returns to power / Martine van Bijlert from 2021-08-24T17:48
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 count...
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Safety and justice after policing / Geo Maher from 2021-08-23T18:40:59
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
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South Africa's ruling party crisis / Niall Reddy from 2021-08-05T21:16:58
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://africas...
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Oaxaca's indigenous insurrection / A. S. Dillingham from 2021-08-04T18:06:31
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
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Protests, police, post-democracy / Paul A. Passavant from 2021-08-03T20:23:40
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-p...
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Toward Roma liberation / Sebijan Fejzula from 2021-08-02T18:45:34
Sebijan Fejzula on her essay"The Roma struggle from protests to political liberation"for ROAR Magazine. https://roarmag.org/essays/roma-protest-political-agenda/
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On Zionist violence / Avi Garelick from 2021-07-29T20:55:52
Writer Avi Garelick on his article"The Violence is the Point"for Hypocrite Reader. http://hypocritereader.com/98/violence-is-the-point
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Tyranny, language and history / Jorge Majfud from 2021-07-28T18:34:26
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...
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The palm oil disaster / Jocelyn C. Zuckerman from 2021-07-27T19:33:25
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
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Maps of a dying planet / Christina Conklin from 2021-07-26T16:38:59
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/boo...
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1368: Haiti and empire / Seth Donnelly from 2021-07-22T20:12:23
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 M...
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1367: Producing Amazon workers / Panos Theodoropoulos from 2021-07-21T16:53:08
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"...
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1366: Individual freedom and collective disaster / Keir Milburn from 2021-07-20T18:04:51
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://novarame...
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1365: Connected in crisis / Tanvi Misra from 2021-07-19T18:50:29
Writer Tanvi Misra on her article"Broader Crises"for The Baffler. https://thebaffler.com/latest/broader-crises-misra
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1365: Vaccine corruption in Brazil / Brian Mier from 2021-07-15T20:26:25
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 knowledg...
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1364: Toward abolitionist agroecology / Maywa Montenegro de Wit from 2021-07-14T18:28:09
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...
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1363: Violence and humanism / Brad Evans from 2021-07-13T18:12:40
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
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1362: Healthcare labor in the deindustrialized US / Gabriel Winant from 2021-07-12T19:15:20
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?i...
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1361: Kentucky opioid war dialectics / Tarence Ray from 2021-07-08T21:02:44
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
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1360: The Alamo, and battles over US history / Chris Tomlinson from 2021-07-07T20:22:07
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/...
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1359: Food sovereignty in Nicaragua / Rohan Rice from 2021-07-06T18:51:07
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-nic...
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1358: Planning a democratic economy / Robin Hahnel from 2021-07-01T20:49:45
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-Econom...
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ARCHIVE: Robin Hahnel on the 2008 financial crisis [2010] from 2021-06-29T15:00:05
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!]
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ARCHIVE: Eyal Weizman + Gregory Levey on Israeli occupation and right-wing movement [2007] from 2021-06-28T14:29:18
Two archive interviews on Israel's occupation of Palestine and growing right-wing political movement with Eyal Weizman and Gregory Levey.
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1357: Tech, labor and the future of the US Postal Service / Brian Justie from 2021-06-24T18:06:37
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/
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1356: US sanctions and vaccine imperialism / Cole Stangler from 2021-06-23T18:06:44
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-vene...
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1355: Gun laws and Black America / Carol Anderson from 2021-06-23T00:02:03
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/
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1354: New governments in Iran and Israel / Juan Cole from 2021-06-22T00:04:44
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 Fundament...
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1353: Social movements and water access in Brazil / Caitlin Schroering from 2021-06-17T21:01:53
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 B...
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1352: Climate action and institutional activism / Madison Condon from 2021-06-16T21:26:18
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...
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1351: The global politics of a Green New Deal / Max Ajl from 2021-06-15T21:04:50
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/
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1350: Nazi profit and post-war capital / Erica X Eisen from 2021-06-10T20:52:22
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://bostonrevie...
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1349: Pandemic update / Rob Wallace from 2021-06-09T22:08:45
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
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1348: Malheur and Standing Rock / Jacqueline Keeler from 2021-06-08T20:46:27
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
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1347: The CIA and surveillance tech / Mara Hvistendahl from 2021-06-07T17:01:56
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...
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1346: Debt and coloniality in Puerto Rico / Rocío Zambrana from 2021-06-04T00:44:46
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.ed...
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1345: The meaning of crowds / Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht from 2021-06-02T18:43
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
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1344: Colonial violence in Sheikh Jarrah / Sarah Ihmoud from 2021-05-28T00:09:57
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/...
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1343: Public assistance, state surveillance / Spencer Headworth from 2021-05-26T21:32:37
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/bo887...
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1342: A history of the filing cabinet / Craig Robertson from 2021-05-25T21:05:58
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-filin...
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1341: Toward global African liberation / Mark P. Fancher from 2021-05-24T18:17:39
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-i...
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1340: Climate crisis for the incarcerated / Daniela Ochoa-Bravo from 2021-05-20T20:20:17
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://i...
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1339: Debt and evangelical capitalism in Colombia / Rebecca C. Bartel from 2021-05-19T23:52:11
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.ucpre...
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1338: Retail labor under digitalization / Janina Hirth + Markus Rhein from 2021-05-18T17:07:55
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-a...
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1337: Colombia rises up / Alejandra Marín Buitrago from 2021-05-17T20:13:19
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/
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1336: Protest laws and police power in France / Rona Lorimer from 2021-05-14T01:01:22
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://brookl...
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1335: Uprisings and repression in Detroit / Matthew D. Lassiter from 2021-05-12T20:28:34
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 L...
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ARCHIVE: Mike Gray on the early days of the drug war. from 2021-05-12T01:30:41
From 1999: Writer and documentary filmmaker Mike Gray on the roots of the US drug war.
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1334: Crisis authoritarianism in India / Sayandeb Chowdhury + Rajendran Narayanan from 2021-05-10T18:32:18
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-indi...
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1333: Lies at the heart of the colony / Yannick Giovanni Marshall from 2021-05-06T21:27:35
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 Tal...
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1332: Financialization and the future of college teaching / Trevor Griffey from 2021-05-04T21:53:37
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/art...
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1331: The idea of whiteness / Robert P. Baird from 2021-05-03T17:17:51
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...
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1330: Prison uprisings and self-emancipation / Adofo Minka from 2021-04-29T17:56:17
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 Dorc...
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1329: Anti-communism and planetary Americanization / Vincent Bevins from 2021-04-28T17:10:03
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/ti...
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1328: Race, consumption and the politics of sugar / James Doucet-Battle from 2021-04-27T18:39:22
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.upres...
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1327: What do we do with MMT? / James K. Galbraith from 2021-04-26T18:51:46
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-s...
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1326: Paying for Bitcoin with carbon / Ketan Joshi from 2021-04-22T22:44
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/bit...
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1325: Mass shooter society / Seamus McGraw from 2021-04-21T20:16:33
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
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1324: The UK's protest crackdown / Adrian Kreutz from 2021-04-19T18:19:12
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:/...
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1323: Bill Gates and monopoly medicine / Alexander Zaitchik from 2021-04-15T20:42:51
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 ...
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1322: Infrastructure, mobilization, survival / Laleh Khalili from 2021-04-15T00:23:47
Political scientist Laleh Khalili on her article"Apocalyptic Infrastructures"for Noēma Magazine. https://www.noemamag.com/apocalyptic-infrastructures/
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1321: Slavery's westward reach / Kevin Waite from 2021-04-13T17:03:39
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/
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1320: The authoritarian grip on Greece / Guilio D'Errico from 2021-04-12T20:37:04
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 ...
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1319: LA's police gangs / Cerise Castle from 2021-04-09T00:17:18
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...
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1318: Pandemics and land use / Luis Fernando Chaves from 2021-04-07T20:51:57
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://...
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1317: Personal data, public trusts / Anna Artyushina from 2021-04-06T17:47:11
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/...
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1316: Music's future on repeat / Rich Woodall from 2021-04-05T18:26:35
Writer Rich Woodall on the financialization of music catalogues and his article"Mass Hipgnosis"for The Baffler. https://thebaffler.com/latest/mass-hipgnosis-woodall
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1315: Growth, carbon, death / Ben Ehrenreich from 2021-04-02T00:11:35
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
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1314: Water and democracy in Detroit / Curt Guyette from 2021-03-31T21:45:56
Writer Curt Guyette on his article"The Fight for Affordable Water"for ACLU Michigan. https://www.aclumich.org/en/news/fight-affordable-water
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1313: Biden and the imperial past / Andrew Bacevich from 2021-03-30T21:31:36
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/
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1312: When universities swallow cities / Davarian L. Baldwin from 2021-03-29T21:51:31
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 C...
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1311: Turkey's fascist alliance / Max Zirngast from 2021-03-25T20:57:34
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-erd...
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1310: Ending endless war / Jonathan Ellis + brian bean from 2021-03-24T23:08:20
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/reb...
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1309: Immigration under Biden / Karina Moreno from 2021-03-23T23:16:26
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-im...
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1308: Lula, lawfare and antidemocracy in Brazil / Brian Mier from 2021-03-22T17:05:03
Live from São Paulo, journalist Brian Mier reports on Lula da Silva's legal victory, pandemic politics and antidemocracy in Brazil.
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ARCHIVE: Cindy Milstein on the revolutionary potential of death and grief. from 2021-03-15T14:32:53
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 capit...
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1307: Thirty years of war against Iraq / Kathy Kelly from 2021-03-11T21:54:53
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 ...
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1306: The business of immigrant labor / Ruth Milkman from 2021-03-10T23:11:41
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+...
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1305: The abolitionist horizon / Mariame Kaba from 2021-03-09T19:46:21
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 ...
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1304: The future price of water / Ray Levy Uyeda from 2021-03-04T23:21:01
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-wa...
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1303: The politics of public land / Nick Bowlin from 2021-03-03T22:20:34
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/
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1302: The struggle for Europe / Raquel Varela from 2021-03-02T19:41:07
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...
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1301: Fracking Appalachia / Sean O'Leary from 2021-03-01T19:15:58
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: Contribut...
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BONUS: Vernon Bellecourt Dec 1999 + Sept 2000 from 2021-02-22T15:34:13
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 rela...
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1300: Ecology, energy and the state / Erald Kolasi from 2021-02-18T21:32:40
Writer Erald Kolasi on his article"The Ecological State"for Monthly Review and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen celebrates Fat History Month.
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1299: Chavismo and the people / Cira Pascual Marquina + Chris Gilbert from 2021-02-17T19:57:03
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 Bo...
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1298: Coloniality and Black citizenship / Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni from 2021-02-15T19:29:54
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 Repo...
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1297: The coming anti-protest laws / Alleen Brown + Akela Lacy from 2021-02-12T19:04:46
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 ...
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1296: The long shadow of eugenics / Elizabeth Catte from 2021-02-10T19:10:26
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 Mak...
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1295: Experiments in medium design / Keller Easterling from 2021-02-09T20:42:14
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...
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1294: All the other epidemics / Lynn Parramore from 2021-02-08T19:15:58
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 Thinkin...
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1293: Crisis, law and the health of the people / Elliot Sperber from 2021-02-04T23:41:14
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. htt...
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1292: Corporate platforms, corporate censorship / Peter Bloom + Carl Rhodes from 2021-02-01T19:22:15
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.commondre...
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1291: Native stories, establishment journalism / Julian Brave NoiseCat from 2021-01-28T19:11:33
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/apoca...
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1290: Five years of poison for Flint / Anna Clark from 2021-01-27T22:13:38
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
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1289: How Bolsonaro sold off Brazil / Brian Mier from 2021-01-26T22:11:50
Journalist Brian Mier on his documentary"Dismantling Brazil: Bolsonaro's Neoliberal Agenda"via redfish. https://youtu.be/_ToGVJ3Zk2I
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1288: The FBI's role in the assassination of Fred Hampton / Flint Taylor + Jeff Haas from 2021-01-25T20:02
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...
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1287: Fascism and liberal democracy / Robert Cavooris from 2021-01-21T22:05:28
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-popu...
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1286: Violence, expansion and the rule of law / Rose Parfitt from 2021-01-20T20:46:24
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-th...
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1285: Crisis diagonalism / William Callison + Quinn Slobodian from 2021-01-19T20:11:14
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-coronap...
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1284: Police violence, protest and working class convergence / Ida Susser from 2021-01-14T23:09:19
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 ...
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1283: McDonald's in Black America / Marcia Chatelain from 2021-01-13T22:11:01
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:...
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1282: Escalating the climate fight / Andreas Malm from 2021-01-12T20:01
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 W...
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1281: India's farm law disaster / Avik Saha from 2021-01-11T18:44:12
Lawyer and farmer activist Avik Saha on the planned corporate takeover of Indian agriculture.
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1280: Opioid deaths and deindustrialization / Peter Ikeler from 2021-01-07T17:54:12
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....
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1279: Mobility and climate disaster / Mimi Sheller from 2021-01-06T23:17:48
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.du...
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1278: Boxing and Blackness / Gerald Horne from 2021-01-05T19:26:04
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 Interna...
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Four border stories from Chuck's youth on drugs. from 2020-12-25T13:40:35
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. Mer...
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1277: Ad hoc, end of year. from 2020-12-17T22:10:19
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.
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1276: Global feminisms / Lucy Delap from 2020-12-16T17:48:53
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
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1275: Telling the truth about nature / Bram Büscher from 2020-12-15T19:00:26
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...
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1274: Uber's wreckage in Kenya / Amanda Sperber from 2020-12-10T19:37:37
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 J...
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1273: Venezuela parliamentary election report / Federico Fuentes from 2020-12-09T17:52:56
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/co...
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1272: The past and future of epidemics / Frank Snowden from 2020-12-08T21:42:39
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
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1271: Population control in 1970s India / Shivani Shedde from 2020-12-07T19:37:10
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/a...
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1270: The future of seafloor extraction / Rebecca McCarthy from 2020-12-03T21:49:03
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
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1269: Land inequality, social inequality / Ward Anseeuw from 2020-12-02T22:00:07
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/
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1268: Brazil municipal election report / Brian Mier from 2020-11-30T20:30:13
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.
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1267: Statehood and pandemic in Puerto Rico / Dave Buchen from 2020-11-25T22:58:12
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.
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1266: On utopia / Teppo Eskelinen from 2020-11-24T22:00:02
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/
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1265: Prisoner resistance at the start of COVID-19 / Duncan Tarr from 2020-11-23T20:56:59
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-res...
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1264: Breaks in the drug supply chain / Ann Neumann from 2020-11-19T18:11:54
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
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1263: The end of public school / Jack Schneider + Jennifer Berkshire from 2020-11-18T19:16:28
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/w...
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1262: On islands / Alastair Bonnett from 2020-11-17T17:56:57
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
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1261: Pro-democracy politics in Hong Kong / Brian Hioe from 2020-11-16T19:01:14
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/
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1260: The abortion struggle in Poland / Zofia Malisz from 2020-11-12T22:16:26
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 surv...
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1259: Mapping the Anthropocene / Anna L. Tsing from 2020-11-11T19:08:12
Anthropologist Anna L. Tsing on"Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene"a digital project from Stanford University Press. http://feralatlas.org/
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1258: Toward degrowth / Giorgos Kallis + Susan Paulson from 2020-11-10T19:01:09
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
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1257: Let it all fall / Mohamed Abdou from 2020-11-09T19:25:55
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/
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1256: A Marxist lens on capitalism's crisis / Hadas Thier from 2020-11-04T21:38:45
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
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1255: Anarchy for the people / Ruth Kinna from 2020-11-03T18:57:38
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/3...
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1254: Trump's war in Yemen / Mohammed al-Jumaily from 2020-11-02T18:15:16
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 Tru...
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1253: Constitutional struggle in Chile / Bree Busk from 2020-10-29T20:50:23
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 cu...
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1252: Natural gas politics in Bolivia / Bret Gustafson from 2020-10-28T18:17:10
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
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1251: Rethinking the home / Diana Lind from 2020-10-27T18:13:51
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-...
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1250: Wisconsin and the politics of White supremacy / Emma Roller from 2020-10-26T18:00:38
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
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1249: Greenwashing environmental racism / Danielle Purifoy from 2020-10-22T17:31:31
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...
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1248: Tech chained to capital / Xiaowei Wang from 2020-10-21T17:51:14
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
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1247: The COVID-19 horizon / Rob Wallace from 2020-10-20T17:35:36
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-or...
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1246: Arctic death spiral / Gloria Dickie from 2020-10-19T16:58:13
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-m...
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1245: A transit in common / Theresa Enright from 2020-10-15T19:38:54
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.societyands...
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1244: Toward mass debt resistance / Thomas Gokey from 2020-10-14T16:51:22
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-...
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1243: On populism and anti-populism / Thomas Frank from 2020-10-13T20:38:34
Writer Thomas Frank on his book"The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism"from Metropolitan Books. https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250220110
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1242: Global banks, global money laundering / Ben Hallman from 2020-10-12T18:13:13
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/
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1241: Toward African economic sovereignty / Fadhel Kaboub + Ndongo Samba Sylla from 2020-10-08T17:05:06
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 ...
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1240: Migrant rescue and backlash / Daniel Trilling from 2020-10-07T21:09:52
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...
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1239: Breaking up monopolies / Rory Van Loo from 2020-10-06T19:09:08
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?abstrac...
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1238: Global capitalism, global police state / William I. Robinson from 2020-10-01T20:44:59
Sociologist William I. Robinson on his new book"The Global Police State"from Pluto Press. https://www.plutobooks.com/9781786806666/the-global-police-state/
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1237: Against the US-UK trade deal / Nick Dearden from 2020-09-30T16:41:15
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. htt...
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1236: System Crash / Fabian Scheidler from 2020-09-29T18:23:20
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...
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1235: Egypt's war on the poor / Maged Mandour from 2020-09-28T17:12:24
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....
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1234: Wet’suwet’en land, Wet’suwet’en law / Suzanne Dhaliwal + Lindsey Bacigal from 2020-09-24T17:34:50
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-w...
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1233: The coming climate migration / Abrahm Lustgarten from 2020-09-23T21:57:44
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
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1232: On the war industry / Christian Sorensen from 2020-09-22T16:51:10
Researcher Christian Sorensen on his book"Understanding the War Industry"from Clarity Press. https://www.claritypress.com/product/understanding-the-war-industry/
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1231: Peace and death in Afghanistan / Kate Clark from 2020-09-21T17:41:44
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-a...
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1230: Indigenous autonomy, pandemic politics / Sylvia Cifuentes from 2020-09-17T20:55:35
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...
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1229: The housing crisis is global / Deborah Potts from 2020-09-16T19:53:22
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/
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1228: The geopolitics of oil / Robert Vitalis from 2020-09-15T18:01:55
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
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1227: Toward agroecology / Helena Paul from 2020-09-14T16:49:28
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-be...
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1226: Policing the coming crisis / Olufemi O. Taiwo from 2020-09-11T16:51:56
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.di...
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1225: Prosecuting protesters / Carolijn Terwindt from 2020-09-09T17:24:30
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-be...
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1224: What we mean by freedom / Annelien de Dijn from 2020-09-08T18:31:55
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=97806...
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1223: The far right inside law enforcement / Michael German from 2020-09-03T21:08:09
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.o...
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David Graeber on This Is Hell! from 2020-09-03T17:06:31
Anthropologist David Graeber's three interviews on This Is Hell!, talking about fun, bureaucracy and bullshit jobs. RIP David.
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1222: Policing the externalized border / Niamh Ni Bhriain from 2020-08-31T18:27:56
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"...
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1221: Collective collapse / Wade Davis from 2020-08-27T17:23:55
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/pol...
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1220: From Carter to Reagan / Rick Perlstein from 2020-08-26T18:50:08
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.simonandsc...
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1219: Toward New Afrika / Edward Onaci from 2020-08-25T19:44:51
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.
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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:...
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1218: On the US postal crisis / Sarah Anderson from 2020-08-13T23:10:49
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 Ineq...
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1217: How the right took Italy / David Broder from 2020-08-12T17:50:14
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.co...
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1216: Between Hong Kong, China and the US left / Andi W + Promise Li from 2020-08-10T17:52:53
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.o...
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1215: Beneath South Africa's ruling class / William Shoki from 2020-08-06T20:26:02
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 Afric...
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1214: Prison reform, carceral expansion / Maya Schenwar + Victoria Law from 2020-08-05T17:36:19
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 Refo...
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1213: Peer-to-peer feminist care / Cassie Thornton from 2020-08-04T20:45:43
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...
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1212: The exile of Rafael Correa / Guillaume Long from 2020-08-03T18:05:16
CEPR policy analyst and former Ecuadorian cabinet member Guillaume Long on lawfare, expulsion and neoliberal, antidemocratic politics in Ecuador.
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1211: Work and death on the colonial pearl fishery / Tamara Fernando from 2020-07-30T18:03:29
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 hors...
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1210: Towards a global energy commons / Ashley Dawson from 2020-07-29T18:23:30
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 THISISHELL1...
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1209: Remembering Michael Brooks + Brazil update / Brian Mier from 2020-07-28T18:04:03
Live from São Paulo, Brian Mier on the work of his friend Michael Brooks, and COVID19 politics in Brazil.
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1208: The post-police budget / Alexander Kolokotronis from 2020-07-27T18:43:41
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....
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1207: Time at the end of time / Ben Ehrenreich from 2020-07-23T17:47:41
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...
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1206: The reactionary coalition / Brendan O'Connor from 2020-07-22T22:05:36
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
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1205: Slavery, race and capital in the sixteenth century / Gerald Horne from 2020-07-21T19:01:51
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. http...
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1204: Tribal jurisdiction after McGirt / Julian Brave NoiseCat from 2020-07-20T18:51:20
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/archi...
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1203: Stealing 2020 / Greg Palast from 2020-07-16T20:00:47
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.
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1202: Toward Black anarchism / Marquis Bey from 2020-07-15T18:14:59
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/anarc...
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1201: The future of liberal policing / Brendan McQuade from 2020-07-13T18:06:34
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/2020/0...
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1200: The work of police unions / Flint Taylor from 2020-07-09T20:11:32
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 hap...
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1199: The agripolitics of soy / Kregg Hetherington from 2020-07-08T19:02:51
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 Pres...
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1198: Public space, post-pandemic / Eugene McCann from 2020-07-07T17:06:21
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.socie...
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1197: Toward revolutionary climate politics / Kai Heron + Jodi Dean from 2020-07-06T18:37:16
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/revolu...
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1196: Nationalist pathology / Richard Seymour from 2020-07-02T20:06:22
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-nation...
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1195: Prosecutors, too / Kate Levine + Joanna Schwartz from 2020-07-01T19:13:56
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:...
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1194: Anti-abortion politics / Jennifer L. Holland from 2020-06-30T18:58:09
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 Califor...
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1193: Pandemic municipalism / Kate Shea Baird from 2020-06-29T19:02:47
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....
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1192: The imperial boomerang / Connor Woodman from 2020-06-25T18:01:35
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.
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1191: Expulsion politics / Adam Goodman from 2020-06-24T18:07:15
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/97806911...
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1190: The feminist war on crime / Aya Gruber from 2020-06-23T19:43:40
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 Calif...
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1189: On police violence / Musa al-Gharbi from 2020-06-22T19:13:54
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
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1188: Power over police / Max Rameau + Netfa Freeman from 2020-06-18T18:12:54
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 Agen...
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1187: Capitalism and collapse / Richard Hunsinger + Nathan Eisenberg from 2020-06-17T19:07:42
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...
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1186: Capitalist enchantment / Eugene McCarraher from 2020-06-16T18:14:59
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 Univers...
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1185: Class and Black Lives Matter / Cedric Johnson from 2020-06-15T18:13:09
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/editor...
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1184: Climate fracture / Ajay Singh Chaudhary from 2020-06-11T19:53:18
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. h...
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1183: Children, strangers and the carceral state / Paul M. Renfro from 2020-06-10T18:19:39
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...
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1182: No time for Black liberals / Yannick Giovanni Marshall from 2020-06-09T17:24:38
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...
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1181: Structural robbery, mass resistance / William C. Anderson from 2020-06-04T19:36:39
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 Tr...
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1180: Death penalty logic / Sarah Beth Kaufman from 2020-06-03T18:30:11
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...
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1179: On state terror / Henry Giroux from 2020-06-02T19:13:03
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 Count...
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1178: Unlearning Imperialism / Ariella Aïsha Azoulay from 2020-06-01T19:15:36
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/...
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1177: Neoliberalism, energy and climate crisis. from 2020-05-18T18:38:16
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 ...
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1176: Bars, mid-pandemic. from 2020-05-14T17:56:19
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. ...
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1175: Ports at the center of global capitalism. from 2020-05-13T19:58:58
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 t...
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1174: Pork on the frontier of capitalism. from 2020-05-12T18:24:27
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...
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1173: Europe's managed migration disaster. from 2020-05-11T19:11:38
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
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1172: Another coup attempt in Venezuela. from 2020-05-07T19:45:27
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 ...
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1171: On coerced labor. from 2020-05-06T18:41:29
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/9...
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1170: DIY disaster relief in NYC. from 2020-05-04T18:03:59
Matt Peterson and Maria Herron of Woodbine on building networks of solidarity and aid under quarantine in New York City. https://www.woodbine.nyc/
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1069: Mexico, mid-pandemic. from 2020-04-30T20:18:56
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.
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1168: COVID-19 in Black America. from 2020-04-29T20:57:37
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.thea...
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1067: Defending life and liberation in Rojava. from 2020-04-28T18:12:30
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...
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1166: COVID-19 and ecological crisis. from 2020-04-27T18:18:35
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://uneven...
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1165: Taiwan, mid-pandemic. from 2020-04-23T20:50:02
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.
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1164: What's wrong with the nation state? from 2020-04-22T17:54:11
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 Ze...
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1163: Deciding on a new world, together. from 2020-04-20T18:16:10
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. ...
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1162: Brazil, mid-pandemic. from 2020-04-17T00:57:44
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 calli...
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1161: Dissent at a dead end. from 2020-04-15T19:41:58
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 Melvi...
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1160: Class struggle after COVID-19. from 2020-04-14T18:27:48
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 Cen...
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1159: Learning from the Sanders loss. from 2020-04-13T17:49:40
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...
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1158: South Korea, mid-pandemic. from 2020-04-09T18:23:11
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 Sna...
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1157: COVID-19 and the capitalist world. from 2020-04-07T18:10:28
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...
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1156: The Cuban Revolution endures. from 2020-04-06T18:09:32
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 Univers...
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1155: Hungary, mid-pandemic. from 2020-04-02T18:08:28
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.
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1154: The global virus. from 2020-04-01T18:25:26
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/o...
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1153: Who gets what in the US Coronavirus bills. from 2020-03-31T18:27:46
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 w...
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1152: The power of the feminist manifesto. from 2020-03-30T18:12:25
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! Feminis...
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1151: Puerto Rico, mid-pandemic. from 2020-03-26T20:10:02
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.
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1150: The fight when Spring comes. from 2020-03-25T19:21:07
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...
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1149: Beyond the Coronavirus curve. from 2020-03-24T17:33:01
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 Econ...
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1148: Coronavirus, capitalism and the world we face now. from 2020-03-23T18:47:14
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. ht...
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1147: Antidemocracy by design. from 2020-03-19T16:42:39
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 Mome...
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1146: The empire runs on coal. from 2020-03-18T16:45:40
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 Ca...
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ARCHIVE: Penny Rimbaud / Punk, politics and art / 2001 from 2020-03-17T17:45:33
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.
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1145: Life under work. from 2020-03-16T17:48:19
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....
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1144: Toward Indigenous jurisdiction. from 2020-03-12T18:24:09
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...
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1143: The case against Joe Biden. from 2020-03-11T18:37:59
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...
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1142: Smartphones and society. from 2020-03-10T16:18:09
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 Gi...
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1141: Toward citizen science. from 2020-03-09T16:15:49
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 wit...
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1140: The politics of food waste. from 2020-03-05T18:48:06
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 o...
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Episode 1139: Soap operas and the stories we tell. from 2020-03-04T20:07:16
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.dukeupr...
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1138: Under Silicon Valley. from 2020-03-03T17:13:38
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.haymarketboo...
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1137: Depoliticization and the revolutionary idea. from 2020-03-02T17:15:19
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” f...
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1136: Platform capitalism and quantum supremacy. from 2020-02-27T18:50:39
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 T...
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1135: Class and race politics in the neoliberal era. from 2020-02-26T17:17:19
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 Ve...
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1134: Democrats against Democracy. from 2020-02-25T17:17:16
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://th...
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1133: The histories of production. from 2020-02-25T12:06:30
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-work...
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1132: American presidents against Black Americans. from 2020-02-20T18:19:12
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,"a...
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1131: Capitalism and ecological theft. from 2020-02-19T17:15:51
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...
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1130: Ruin porn in a ruined world. from 2020-02-18T17:16:56
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-wagnerPLUS: Listener Feedback...
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1129: Depression at the end of time. from 2020-02-17T18:31:12
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...
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1128: Extinction Rebellion's apolitics. from 2020-02-13T19:20:40
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/ca...
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1127: Rural America under capitalism. from 2020-02-12T17:13:33
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-c...
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1126: Conservation and the Capitalocene. from 2020-02-11T17:17:32
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-cons...
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1125: Misinformation technology. from 2020-02-06T21:04:35
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 sav...
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1124: AMLO's first year. from 2020-02-05T20:26:12
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
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1123: Ambulance work under late capitalism. from 2020-02-04T18:08:20
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 Californi...
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1122: On planetary extraction. from 2020-02-03T18:42:49
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://ww...
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1121: Carbon and architecture. from 2020-01-30T17:19:09
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 Compan...
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1120: The politics of school lunch. from 2020-01-29T17:16:15
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 Pub...
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1119: Capitalism in Space. from 2020-01-28T17:17:05
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 Privatiza...
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1118: The geopolitics of slavery and resistance. from 2020-01-27T17:16
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 Stor...
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1117: Colonialism, capitalism and Karuk land. from 2020-01-23T19:10:24
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 b...
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1116: Trump's EPA and the future of cancer. from 2020-01-22T17:17:50
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-...
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1115: Toward Native American food sovereignty. from 2020-01-22T03:28:49
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 wri...
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1114: Class and mass incarceration. from 2020-01-15T19:19:11
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-incarcerationPLUS: Chuck ...
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1113: Irregular warfare, worldwide. from 2020-01-14T17:15:44
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. htt...
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1112: The politics of nativism. from 2020-01-13T17:16:32
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"fro...
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1110: Towards a new England. from 2020-01-08T17:14:29
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 ...
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1109: The politics of work and hunger. from 2020-01-07T17:11:39
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...
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1108: Capitalism on Edge. from 2020-01-06T17:09:59
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 Withou...
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1107: Mass surveillance and social regulation. from 2019-12-18T19:22:14
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.
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1106: After Labour's loss / Ruined by design. from 2019-12-18T14:08:16
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 Wh...
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1105: What's next for dissent in France? from 2019-12-16T19:10:48
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 ...
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1104: The Lebanese constitution and the street. from 2019-12-12T20:09:07
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://ww...
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1103: School is stupid / Against self-driving cars. from 2019-12-11T13:16:24
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.
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1102: The future of energy and the Green New Deal. from 2019-12-09T19:42:40
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:...
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1101: Before and after the Yellow Vests. from 2019-12-04T20:21:27
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 Organi...
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1100: The right's shadow network. from 2019-12-04T03:21:22
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."
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1099: The dawn of cultural anthropology. from 2019-12-02T19:03:40
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 seein...
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1098: Mourning Thanksgiving. from 2019-11-26T19:29:27
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 Thanksgivi...
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1097: Beyond capitalist education. from 2019-11-25T18:19:42
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 ...
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1096: Racism and retribution at the CIA. from 2019-11-22T21:46:35
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/unwa...
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1095: Power and violence in post-coup Bolivia. from 2019-11-21T04:10:30
Journalist Jacquelyn Kovarik on her article"Bolivia’s Anti-Indigenous Backlash Is Growing"for The Nation. https://www.thenation.com/article/bolivia-morales-whipala/
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1094: Real estate racism / War and sleep. from 2019-11-20T15:39:10
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...
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1093: The US hand in Latin America. from 2019-11-14T13:39:13
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...
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1092: Beyond misogyny / Out of the neoliberal wreckage / Lula free. from 2019-11-13T13:12:46
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 Politi...
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1091: Towards counterculture / On economic imperialism. from 2019-11-06T02:20:57
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://w...
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1090: The alchemy of meth. from 2019-11-04T18:58:13
Anthropologist Jason Pine on the industrial alchemy of meth in late capitalist America. https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-alchemy-of-methPLUS: Chuck gets anti-capitalist ASMR ting...
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1089: Chile rises up. from 2019-10-30T17:56:56
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: ...
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1088: The price of cash bail. from 2019-10-29T23:05:09
Social scientist Christine Scott-Hayward on the deep social cost of a money bail system. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520298316/punishing-povertyPLUS: Chuck explains what This Is Hell! actuall...
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1087: Notes from Hell world. from 2019-10-28T16:19:07
Journalist Luke O'Neil on his book"Welcome to Hell World: Dispatches from the American Dystopia"and Chuck explains what the show isn't.
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1086: Turkey's fascist war. from 2019-10-25T16:50:53
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 Don...
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1085: White evangelicals in opposition. from 2019-10-23T16:49:43
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.htmlPLUS: Ch...
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1084: Squatters in the capitalist city. from 2019-10-21T16:21:54
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-Housin...
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1083: Carbon Cowboys from Norway / The Symposium from 2019-10-16T18:13:48
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.
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1082: Five years after Ferguson / The abortion fight now. from 2019-10-16T01:35:49
Andrea Boyles on Black community organizing five years after Ferguson. / Jenny Brown on the long fight for abortion access.
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1081: In the deportation machine. from 2019-10-14T19:42:32
Journalist Madeleine Schwartz on her New York Review of Books article"Inside the Deportation Courts."
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Episode 1080: Clarence Thomas's Black Nationalism from 2019-10-11T18:05:57
Political scientist Corey Robin on his book"The Enigma of Clarence Thomas"from Metropolitan Books.
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The Price of water / What went wrong at UAW / The exceptional Jew from 2019-10-04T18:51:45
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 T...
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The future of meat / The evangelical mind / Guns on El Paso from 2019-10-02T17:28:16
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
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Holidays in the Anthropocene. from 2019-09-27T02:13:40
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.
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What it means to be comrades. from 2019-09-25T18:47:19
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-...
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On the deadly mechanism of US sanctions. from 2019-09-25T18:07:12
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-banksPLUS: Chuck on clima...
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Episode 1074: Wasted (Broadcast - September 21st) from 2019-09-21T22:17:43
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]
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Episode 1073: People in Cages (Compilation - September 14 2019) from 2019-09-14T13:47:01
Recent interviews on incarceration.
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Episode 1072: Young Living (Broadcast - September 7 2019) from 2019-09-07T22:37:37
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]
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Episode 1071: Net Work (Broadcast - August 31 2019) from 2019-08-31T22:11:18
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]
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Chuck returns from a holiday in capitalist misery. from 2019-08-26T14:23:45
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.
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Episode 1070: Bering Down (Broadcast - August 24 2019) from 2019-08-25T16:45:15
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 ...
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Episode 1069: Toward Feminism (Compilation - August 17 2019) from 2019-08-17T13:53:29
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, A...
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Chuck goes on on his podcast about going on another podcast. from 2019-07-29T12:38:44
Your bitter, blind, broke, gap-toothed radio host Chuck Mertz talks about what he learned from going on another podcast last week.
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Episode 1066: Omnicidal (Broadcast - July 27 2019) from 2019-07-28T04:16:50
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]
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Episode 1065: Carnation Instant (Broadcast - July 20 2019) from 2019-07-20T20:22:29
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]
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Episode 1064: Heat Advisory (Broadcast July 16 2019) from 2019-07-13T21:15:31
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]
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Episode 1063: Trailer Hitch (Broadcast - July 6 2019) from 2019-07-06T19:56:55
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]
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Episode 1062: Slow Burn (Broadcast - June 29 2019) from 2019-06-29T21:46:59
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]
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Episode 1061: Femward (Broadcast - June 22 2019) from 2019-06-23T17:11:22
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]
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The Best of 2019: So Far from 2019-06-15T14:04:28
Highlight interviews from the first half of 2019. Featuring Marco Roth, Richard Seymour, adrienne maree brown, Barnaby Raine and Marshall Auerback.
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Episode 1059: Sunk Cost (Broadcast - June 8 2019) from 2019-06-08T20:47:39
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]
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Episode 1058: America's Drug War - The First Century (Playlist - June 1 2019) from 2019-06-01T18:59:45
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 d...
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Episode 1057: Dose Encounters (Broadcast - May 25 2019) from 2019-05-25T19:41:14
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]
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Episode 1056: The Next Crash (Broadcast - May 18 2019) from 2019-05-19T01:17:29
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]
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Episode 1055: Flesh Market (Broadcast - May 11 2019) from 2019-05-11T20:51:32
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]
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Episode 1054: New World Border (Broadcast - May 4 2019) from 2019-05-04T20:05:09
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]
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Episode 1053: Pill Case (Broadcast - April 27 2019) from 2019-04-28T01:12:40
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 ...
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Episode 1051: Country Rote (Broadcast - April 13 2019) from 2019-04-14T20:08:08
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]
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Episode 1050: Detroit (Playlist - April 6 2019) from 2019-04-06T12:46:26
Episode 1050: Detroit (Playlist - April 6 2019) by This is Hell!
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Episode 1049: Pipe Down (Broadcast - March 30 2019) from 2019-03-30T22:35:19
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 ...
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Episode 1048: Jail Brake (Broadcast - March 23 2019) from 2019-03-23T20:50:06
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]
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Episode 1047: Debt from Above (Broadcast - March 16 2019) from 2019-03-16T20:09:55
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] / ...
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Episode 1046: Locked In (Broadcast - March 9 2019) from 2019-03-09T22:29:18
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 ...
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Episode 1045: Force Quit (Broadcast - March 2 2019) from 2019-03-02T21:04:29
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 p...
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The machine is on the run: How progressives won in Chicago's elections. from 2019-02-28T13:59:47
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...
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Episode 1044: 90s Hits Vol 1 (Playlist - February 23 2019) from 2019-02-24T16:46:05
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] Momen...
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Episode 1043: Power Supply (Broadcast - February 16 2019) from 2019-02-16T21:46:23
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]
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Episode 1042: Labour Mire (Broadcast - February 9 2019) from 2019-02-09T22:34:19
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 th...
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Episode 1041: Flesh Drive (Broadcast - February 2 2019) from 2019-02-02T23:31:21
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 fa...
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Episode 1039: Russia Today (Playlist - January 19 2019) from 2019-01-19T13:36:13
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 Vla...
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Episode 1038: Last Call (Broadcast - January 12 2019) from 2019-01-12T21:31:29
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]
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Episode 1037: Best of Capitalism, Part Two (Playlist - January 5 2019) from 2019-01-05T04:06:35
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 Alvar...
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Episode 1036: Best of Capitalism, Part One (Playlist - December 29, 2018) from 2018-12-29T13:31:47
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] N...
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Episode 1035: Speak and Sell (Broadcast - December 22 2018) from 2018-12-23T01:47:52
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]
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Episode 1034: Gilets Jawns (Broadcast - December 15 2018) from 2018-12-15T21:02:25
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]
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Episode 1033: No Debate (Broadcast - December 8 2018) from 2018-12-08T22:45:34
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...
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Episode 1032: Past Due (Broadcast December 1 2018) from 2018-12-01T20:16:01
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]
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Episode 1031: Staff Picks: Alex (Playlist - November 24 2018) from 2018-11-24T14:25:50
Producer Alex picks his favorite interviews of 2018, featuring: Roy Scranton, Radha D'Souza, Tithi Bhattacharya, Asad Haider, C. Riley Snorton and Max Haiven.
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Episode 1029: Ballotproof (Broadcast - November 10 2018) from 2018-11-10T22:41:34
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:...
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Episode 1026: Minions [Broadcast - October 20 2018] from 2018-10-21T03:32:43
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 P...
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Episode 1025: City Limits (Broadcast - October 13 2018) from 2018-10-13T16:20:15
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 ...
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Episode 1024: Death Blips (Broadcast - October 9 2018) from 2018-10-06T19:34:49
Eleanor Penny on Steve Bannon's European Dream [5:44] / Aaron Timms on a liberal order running out the clock. [36:45]
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Episode 1022: Authority Question (Broadcast - September 22 2018) from 2018-09-22T19:32:25
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]
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Episode 1021: The Best of the 2008 Financial Crisis (Playlist - September 15 2018) from 2018-09-15T14:01:30
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.
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Episode 1020: Energy Futures (Broadcast - September 8 2018) from 2018-09-08T18:45:11
Biophysical economist Paavo Järvensivu and philosopher Tere Vadén explore the near future of a world in capital and climate crisis. [16:52]
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Episode 1019: Arts and Grafts (Broadcast - September 1 2018) from 2018-09-01T20:02:15
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 th...
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Episode 1018: How We Got Here (Playlist - August 25 2018) from 2018-08-25T14:57:52
Recent interviews on neoliberal politics, global capitalism and the right's rise to power.
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Episode 1017: Staff Picks: Leo (Playlist - August 18 2018) from 2018-08-17T16:40:39
Recent interviews on capitalism, technology and systems of control - handpicked by Producer Leo.
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Episode 1014: Red Into Green (Full Broadcast - July 28 2018) from 2018-07-28T21:12:41
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]
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Episode 1013: Violent Ends (Full Broadcast - July 21 2018) from 2018-07-21T19:28:54
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]
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Episode 1012: Doom and Bloom (Full Broadcast - July 14 2018) from 2018-07-14T20:28:04
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]
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Episode 1011: No Entry (Full Broadcast - July 7 2018) from 2018-07-07T19:31:24
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]
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Episode 1010: Lost Time (Full Broadcast - June 30 2018) from 2018-06-30T19:43:47
Trumpism before Trump [21:16] / Tomorrow's elections in Mexico [1:06:55] / Invisible detainees [1:33:43] / How Christians destroyed the Classical world [2:06:35] / The tollroad to serfdom [3:00:46]...
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Episode 1009: IDPROLE (Full Broadcast - June 23 2018) from 2018-06-23T19:07:27
The globalist's blindspot [19:02] / From identity to solidarity [59:23] / American oblivion [1:59:05] / Grand theft paycheck [3:02:47] / Kanye's choice, part three [3:42:52]
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Episode 1008: No Sphere (Full Broadcast - June 16 2018) from 2018-06-16T22:38:14
Inside the teenage brain [19:46] / Hard times for the Russian left [1:00:57] / Beneath the pork industry (rebroadcast) [2:09:56] / To global localization [3:17:29] / Kanye's Choice Part Two [4:06:47]
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Episode 1007: Rising Signs (Full Broadcast - June 9 2018) from 2018-06-09T19:16:17
Fighting fascism today [20:09] / Anxiety season in Puerto Rico [59:46] / Italy's hard right turn [1:35:00] / The new American shore [2:08:56] / The White authoritarians [3:05:50] / Kanye's choice [...
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Episode 1006: Crash Crops (Full Broadcast - June 2 2018) from 2018-06-02T19:22:33
Global inequality's long division [20:36] / Brazil's new strike wave [1:00:19] / Immigrant detainee labor [1:34:59] / The Blackness of resistance [2:08:03] / Death on the American farm [3:08:12] / ...
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Episode 1004: Feeling Better (Full Broadcast - May 19 2018) from 2018-05-19T21:23:13
Passive voice aggression [16:45] / The politics of empathy [1:04:38] / Labor's last weapon [2:01:16]
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Episode 1003: Labor Nopes (May 12 2018) from 2018-05-12T19:41:40
Countering the far right [17:56] / On bullshit jobs [1:12:41] / Automating inequality [2:05:32] / Culture war in the Trump era [3:09:35] / Rape and rhetoric [3:45:45]
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Episode 1002: Collusion Course (Full Broadcast - May 5 2018) from 2018-05-05T20:26:25
Militarism and poverty [19:02] / The left must return to politics [1:04:32] / How bankers bought world power [2:06:44] / The mandatory arbitration boom [3:07:47] / The riskiest comedy [3:41:30]
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Episode 1001: Extremely Offline (Full Broadcast - April 28 2018) from 2018-04-28T20:10:05
On peace in Korea [21:10] / The limits of human rights [1:03:23] / End World Bank ranking [2:08:33] / Dissent as commodity [2:37:04] / Cuba's offline internet [3:11:45] / Existential fret [3:49:06]
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Episode 1000: Warming Signs (Full Broadcast - April 24 2018) from 2018-04-21T20:42:44
The disruptor's blindspot [17:26] / Teacher's strikes are women's strikes [1:06:36] / The ghost of Allan Bloom [1:36:27] / Tomorrow's climate politics [2:0903] / The business of denialism [3:10:30]...
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Episode 999: Field Notes (Full Broadcast - April 14 2018) from 2018-04-14T21:52:24
Seeing micropolitics [15:51] / From Orban's Hungary [1:05:48] / Lula and Brazil's left [1:39:11] / The apocalypse of settler colonialism [2:07:41] / Agricultureculture [3:07:52] / No one can affor...
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Episode 997: Zone Defense (Full Broadcast - March 31 2018) from 2018-03-31T19:35:55
Consultation culture [20:58] / Against Chicago's gang database [1:02:02] / The non-state of ZAD [1:36:41] / Geographies of resistance [2:08:16] / Béisbol politics [3:11:39] / From Egypt to Sandy Ho...
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Episode 996: Wage of Consent (Full Episode - March 24 2018) from 2018-03-24T20:30:04
The new state extremism [15:09] / The murder of Marielle Franco [1:02:00] / To Native food sovereignty [1:34:32] / The low-wage labor movement [2:05:50] / Amazon is the market [3:06:09] / Dalai Lem...
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Episode 995: Rights Reserved (Full Broadcast - March 17 2018) from 2018-03-17T20:30:05
Not talking about race [17:27] Rebel women, unite [1:04:50] Immigration under Trump [1:36:51] What's wrong with rights [2:08:55] Against fitness [3:11:33] Disrupt D20 [3:43:45]
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Episode 993: Road To Joy (Full Broadcast - March 3 2018) from 2018-03-03T20:35:35
The economics of educational apartheid [17:54] / West Virginia teachers on strike [1:07:46] / Clean metals, dirty mining [1:56:51] / Finding happiness in other people [2:12:14] / #MeToo's online pr...
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Episode 992: Human / Nature (Full Broadcast - February 24 2018) from 2018-02-24T20:55:05
The work of Black nationalist women [17:28] / Nature, time and the coming climate storm [1:01:38] / The rebirth of White nationalism [2:06:01] / Millennials, 1982 - Present [3:06:38] / Good guys, b...
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Episode 991: Polis Scanner (Full Broadcast - February 17 2018) from 2018-02-17T20:53:18
Getting Appalachia right [16:33] / Korea's diplomatic game [59:14] / Nationalize Elon Musk [1:35:04] / Why liberalism failed [2:00:42] / Lawfare in Brazil [3:07:58] / The narrative crutch [3:33:35]
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Episode 990: Incogito (Full Broadcast - February 10 2018) from 2018-02-10T20:02:53
Consciousness and the physical world [16:21] / The case against Andrew Cuomo [1:03:02] / No Olympics, anywhere [1:35:40] / The internet was always spying on you [2:06:04] / Let strippers work [3:02...
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Episode 989: Trigger Discipline (Full Broadcast - February 3 2018) from 2018-02-03T21:13:11
The power of Black and Brown history in America [16:38] Women on the far-right [1:00:46] The case against intersectionality [1:35:57] The other side of guns [2:06:41] What Trump changed [3:06:36] N...
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Episode 988: Connectivity Error (Full Broadcast - January 27 2018) from 2018-01-27T20:46:58
Private equity eats public pensions [18:13] / On indigenous feminism [1:03:58] / Bipartisanship is a curse [1:35:56] / Disconnection and depression [2:07:10] / To talk about race [3:05:38] / Infini...
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Episode 987: Robbermade (Full Broadcast - January 20 2018) from 2018-01-20T21:23:17
Europe's fault lines [17:08] The failures of means testing [1:02:57] Iran's periphery revolts [1:35:02] Corporate capture, state by state [1:35:02] On Christian thought and racial science [3:03:56]...
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Episode 986: State / Farm (Full Broadcast - January 13 2018) from 2018-01-13T22:14:30
A deep history of the earliest states [18:05] Honduras under Hernández [1:01:58] No time left, leftists [1:36:38] Finance at the fringes [2:08:10] On East Chicago's poisoned ground [3:05:48] The un...
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Episode 985: Staff Picks 2017 (Compilation - January 6 2018) from 2018-01-06T15:04:06
This Is Hell's favorite interviews of 2017.
Rebecca Liao on the reordered politics of authoritarian capitalism. [00:01:50]
Eliott Sperber on the rise of the neoliberal border wall. [53...
Episode 984: Most Clicked 2017 (Compliation - December 30 2017) from 2017-12-30T04:47:32
The six most popular This Is Hell! interviews of 2017.
Corey Robin on modern conservatism [1:10:00]
Angela Nagle on the politics of misanthropy [41:46]
Bruce Dixon on the failures ...
Episode 983 - Seasonable Doubt (Full Broadcast - December 23 2017) from 2017-12-23T23:30:05
The meaning of belief [18:15] / Poor Whites and slavery [59:59] / The meanings of Christmas [2:05:09] / The year in beer [3:02:46] / On socialist falafel [3:49:14]
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Episode 982: Body Politics (Full Broadcast - December 16 2017) from 2017-12-16T22:27:54
Migrant labor at the end of retirement [19:03] / Voices from Brazil's left [1:01:42] / Worker pain and capitalism [1:37:10] / Tech's coded inequality [2:08:51] / Cedric Robinson's Black radicalism ...
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Episode 981: Age Gap (Full Broadcast - December 9 2017) from 2017-12-10T00:07:41
Millennials under capitalism [19:07] / Towards humane immigration [1:05:28] / 48 years after Fred Hampton [1:33:01] / Narco-politics in Honduras [2:05:08] / Scientific terminology and popular under...
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Episode 980: Poison Idea (Full Broadcast - December 2 2017) from 2017-12-02T21:28:03
Poverty is a crime [21:46] / Black Snake Killaz [1:05:55] / Tax cuts for the rich [1:35:02] / A century of tear gas [2:09:32] / Anti-imperialism is Black [3:06:36] / Hey, minority! [3:43:23]
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