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01:42:41

Against Resilience / Ajay Singh Chaudhary

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2024/01/23

Ajay Singh Chaudhary returns to This Is Hell! to talk about his Baffler Magazine article, "Sick and Tired: Against Resilience," an excerpt from, "The Exhausted of the Earth: Politics in a Burning World" (Repeater Books). An all-new Rotten History follows the interview. Check out the article here: https://thebaffler.com/latest/sick-and-tired-chaudhary And the forthcoming book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/736324/the-exhausted-of-the-earth-by-ajay-singh-chaudhary/ Help keep This Is

01:26:20

Killing Detroit / Christopher Hood

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2024/01/17

Christopher Hood, author of the award-winning script and film, “Killing Detroit: The City That Refused To Die,” that is now in book form. A new Moment of Truth from Jeff Dorchen follows the interview. Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

01:18:00

How Police Undermine The Promise of Body Cameras /...

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2024/01/16

ProPublica editor-at-large Eric Umansky joins This Is Hell! to discuss his recent ProPublica article, "How Police Have Undermined the Promise of Body Cameras." A new Rotten History follows the interview. Check out Eric's piece here: https://www.propublica.org/article/how-police-undermined-promise-body-cameras Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

00:35:06

A Black Panther's Take on Obama's Election / Larry...

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2024/01/15

On MLK Day 2024, we share a 2008 talk with Black Panther Larry Pinkney and his hot and very critical take on Barack Obama shortly after Obama was elected president and before he was inaugurated. Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

01:26:54

Detroit Eviction Defense Battles for Housing Justice...

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2024/01/09

This Is Hell! returns with new interviews this week! Kicking off 2024, geographer Jeff Wilson joins us to discuss his new graphic novel he co-created with Bambi Kramer, "We Live Here: Detroit Eviction Defense and the Battle for Housing Justice" from Seven Stories Press. Following the interview, Jeff Dorchen returns with a new Moment of Truth in which he tries to gain perspective on the human condition with a cheap sci-fi thought experiment. Check out Jeff and Bambi's graphic novel here:

01:04:06

Best of 2023: Revolting Capital - Racism & Radicalism...

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2024/01/04

The Best of 2023 concludes with listener-favorite historian Gerald Horne, on his new book “Revolting Capital: Racism & Radicalism in Washington, D.C., 1900-2000” (International Publishers). Check out Gerald's book here: https://www.intpubnyc.com/browse/revolting-capital-racism-radicalism-in-washington-d-c-1900-2000/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

01:31:28

Best of 2023: Building Movements is Uncomfortable....

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2024/01/03

The penultimate Best of 2023 episode features a September interview with 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 a culture of listening—not mastery of the right language.” Following the interview, Jeff Dorchen delivers a Moment of Truth and we read more of your answers to the Question from Hell! Check out Kelly and Mariame's essay here:

01:19:19

Best of 2023: Silicon Valley Vs. Humanity / Malcolm...

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2024/01/02

The Best of 2023 continues with our April interview with Malcolm Harris on his Little, Brown and Company book, "Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World." After the interview, we read your first answers to 2024's first Question from Hell and the Worst of Rotten History from Renaldo Migaldi. Check out Malcolm's book here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/malcolm-harris/palo-alto/9780316592031/?lens=little-brown Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and

01:30:14

Best of 2023: The Revolution Will Not Be Scheduled /...

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2023/12/28

The Best of 2023 continues with writer, professor and musician Sheila Liming on her recently published book, "Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time." Check out Sheila's book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717263/hanging-out-by-sheila-liming/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

01:22:36

Best of 2023: In Defense of the Chaotic Protester /...

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2023/12/27

The best of 2023 continues with Miliaku Nwabueze on her May 5 Scalawag essay, "How to Build the End of the World: In Defense of the Chaotic Protester." Check out Miliaku's article here: https://scalawagmagazine.org/2023/05/black-radical-tradition-cop-city/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

01:27:01

Best of 2023: Living and Reliving the U.S. Invasion...

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2023/12/26

The Best of 2023 continues with our April 10th interview with Rasha Al Aqeedi about her New Lines Magazine article, "Living — and Reliving — the US Invasion of Iraq." Check out Rasha's article here: https://newlinesmag.com/first-person/living-and-reliving-the-us-invasion-of-iraq/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

01:10:35

Best of 2023: Family Abolition: Capitalism and the...

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2023/12/20

The Best of 2023 continues! 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. Check out M.E.'s book here: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745343846/family-abolition/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

01:35:04

Best of 2023: Unpacking the Myths Fueling the Right's...

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2023/12/19

Continuing the Best of 2023 series, 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 the most recent CPAC. This interview originally aired on June 21st. After the interview, we have both a new Rotten History and a new Moment of Truth. Alex is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University, Director of the Center for the Study of Genocide

01:26:17

Best of 2023: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy /...

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2023/12/18

The Best of 2023 continues with Matt Kennard and Claire Provost on their Bloomsbury book, "Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy." This interview originally aired on May 16th. Check out "Silent Coup" here: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/silent-coup-9781350269989/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell

01:31:26

Best of 2023: The Long Land War / Jo Guldi

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2023/12/14

The Best of 2023 continues with historian Jo Guldi on her Boston Review article, "The Earth for Man," on land redistribution which is adapted from her Yale University Press book, "The Long Land War: The Global Struggle for Occupancy Rights." Following the interview, we read the rest of your answers to the Question from Hell and select our favorite of the week and Sebastian Wuepper delivers another timely Past Inside the Present. Check out Jo's article here:

01:31:46

Best of 2023: American Agriculture Is about Money,...

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2023/12/13

The Best of 2023 continues with our October interview with Alan Guebert who had just posted the The Baffler Magazine article, “Farmed Out: American agriculture is about business, not food.” Plus, a Moment of Truth with Jeffrey Dorchen and your answers to the week's Question from Hell! Check out Alan's article here: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/farmed-out-guebert Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon:

01:18:44

Best of 2023: Solidarity for Palestinian Liberation /...

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2023/12/12

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 the first batch of your answers to the Question from Hell, followed by Rotten History. Check out Arielle's article here: https://jewishcurrents.org/we-cannot-cross-until-we-carry-each-other Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon:

01:09:12

Best of 2023: Secret Power: Wikileaks and its Enemies...

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2023/12/06

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 Repubblica, consistently rated among the top two Italian newspapers, and for the italian newsmagezine l’Espresso. She has worked with Julian Assange and his organization WikiLeaks since 2009, teaming up with large teams of international media to cover and investigate all of WikiLeaks' secret

01:15:20

Best of 2023: Big Pharma Rigs the Game / Julia Rock

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2023/12/05

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 Lever, "How Big Pharma Actually Spends Its Massive Profits: New research shows that pharmaceutical companies have spent more on enriching shareholders than drug research and development over the past decade." After the interview, we read more of your answers to this week's Question from Hell and an all-new

01:39:39

Best of 2023: "Luxury Emissions" Doom Us All /...

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2023/12/04

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." After that, Sebastian Wuepper returns with a new The Past Inside the Present. Check out Christopher's article here: https://theintercept.com/2022/12/13/climate-protest-private-jets-schiphol-airport/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to

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