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01:36:18

Sustaining a Politics of Extermination and Climate...

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2025/03/11

Award-winning author Omar El Akkad joins “This Is Hell!” to talk about his new book, "One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This”, published by the Penguin Books. Check out Omar’s book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/777485/one-day-everyone-will-have-always-been-against-this-by-omar-el-akkad/?fbclid=IwY2xjawI9NZpleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHRHlIY5dAk3hrnB8dk0wOc9P_cL3vOlRO6pa78Ux07cr9tv4PR_GhwkMrg_aem_ltRUIYUqFxKHG-AUz9rHsg Keep TiH! free and completely listener supported by

01:08:24

A New Political Ideology Is Needed to Change the...

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2025/02/24

Physicist Erald Kolasi returns to “This Is Hell!” to talk about his new book, "The Physics of Capitalism: How a New Political Ecology Can Change the World”, published by the Monthly Review.Check out Erald’s book here: https://monthlyreview.org/product/the-physics-of-capitalism-how-a-new-political-ecology-can-change-the-world/ Keep TiH! free and completely listener supported by subscribing to our weekly bonus Patreon podcast or visiting thisishell.com/pages/support

01:56:43

Chuck has Covid pt. 2: Technoauthoritarian Frontiers...

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2025/02/21

Chuck is out of action this week COVID, so we are featuring past interviews with upcoming guests who all have new books coming out on the days we are scheduled to interview them in upcoming weeks. Today's episode features two listener-favorite historians. First up is Quinn Slobodian on his 2023 book "Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy." Greg Grandin follows with a discussion of his Pulitzer Prize-winning 2020 book "The End of the Myth: From the Frontier

01:49:44

Chuck has Covid pt. 1: Socialist Futures / Jodi Dean...

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2025/02/19

Chuck is out of action this week COVID, so we are featuring past interviews with upcoming guests who all have new books coming out on the days we are scheduled to interview them in upcoming weeks. Today's episode features two guests whose work imagine a more emancipatory, dignified, sustainable future should socialist imperatives govern the future of human development. First up is political scientist Jodi Dean, who joined us in 2022 to discuss her book "Socialist Reconstruction: A Better Future for

01:44:25

Law Enforcement Needs to Get Serious About the Far...

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2025/02/11

Mike German, co-author with Beth Zasloff of the new book, "Policing White Supremacy: The Enemy Within," returns to This is Hell! Mike is a former FBI agent who went undercover in the far right whtie supremacsit movement and has appeared on the show a couple of times. "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.Check out Mike's book here: https://thenewpress.com/books/policing-white-supremacy Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by

01:28:52

Becca Lewis / How Technofacism is Rooted in Silicon...

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2025/02/11

Disinformation and far-right digital media scholar Becca Lewis, who posted The Guardian article, “‘Headed for technofascism’: the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley." Check out Becca Lewis new Guardian piece at this link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2025/jan/29/silicon-valley-rightwing-technofascism?fbclid=IwY2xjawIYf-tleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHc2nPsngc-4BdtZ_VAwm84lbBIMTOkq8WaTAvn1nYmXhUWlgWa_lfeyW2w_aem_L7nLbYIVbWoIlBoxR9OKLw Becca served as an expert witness in the defamation

01:24:12

Defunding the Police and Abolition as Forms of...

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2025/01/13

Sonali Kolhatkar, author of “Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice” joins us to discuss her new book “Talking About Abolition: A Police-Free World Is Possible”, published by Seven Stories Press. Purchase the book at this link: https://sevenstories.com/books/4670-talking-about-abolition?srsltid=AfmBOopfJr7eEoqqTYOKWx9Q_aJhojtOxT5fyipK4DfbqnIfm4q0VBy1 Sonali Kolhatkar’s website: https://www.sonalikolhatkar.com Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access

01:42:52

Spotify's Plot Against Musicians / Liz Pelly

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2025/01/13

Liz Pelly joins This Is Hell! to discuss her Harper's cover article titled "The Ghosts in the Machine: Spotify's Plot Against Musicians," excerpted from her new book, Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist (One Signal Publishers). An all-new Moment of Truth with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.Check out Liz's article: https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machine-liz-pelly-spotify-musicians/ And her book: https://lizpelly.info/book Help keep

01:12:50

Best of 2024: Ketamine / Dan Piepenbring

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2024/12/25

Dan Piepenbring on his Baffler article, "K-Pop: Our forefathers did dissociatives." Dan is the New Books columnist for Harper’s and the co-author, with Tom O’Neill, of CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties. He’s currently working on a book about ketamine. "The Moment of Truth" follows the interview.Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon.

01:43:52

Hindu Supremacy on College Campuses and the Diaspora...

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2024/12/11

Nevin Kallepalli joins us to discuss his writing at the Baffler, “Hindutva University: Meet the group spreading Hindu supremacist propaganda on college campuses”. “Moment of Truth” from Jeff Dorchen will follow the interview.Check out Nevin’s article here: https://thebaffler.com/latest/university-of-hindutva-kallepalli Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell

02:07:47

Big Oil's Climate Change Cover-Up Began in the 1950s...

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2024/12/04

Rebecca John joins us to discuss her writing at DeSmog, "Revealed: Big Oil Told 70 Years Ago That Fossil Fuel Emissions Could Impact ‘Civilization.’" "Rotten History" from Renaldo Migaldi and "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follow the interview.Check out Rebecca's article here: https://www.desmog.com/2024/11/12/revealed-big-oil-told-70-years-ago-that-fossil-fuel-emissions-could-impact-civilization/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by

01:44:20

Liberalism Will Cost Us The Earth/Alberto Toscano

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2024/11/26

Alberto Toscano joins us to discuss his In These TImes piece, "Liberalism Will Cost Us the Earth - Trump’s recoronation is another symptom of centrism’s global bankruptcy.."Check out Alberto's article here: https://inthesetimes.com/article/liberalism-will-cost-us-the-earth?fbclid=IwY2xjawGzEB1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHSSXdh3TbVJILW-Ke60gd7sHll2I-8Y0gu8Hpt8uILxKhva2d1OWrwLeYQ_aem_8ZjUNhGUyyNj4NkRN7PLnA Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our

01:36:52

Project Esther: A Trumpian Blueprint to Crush...

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2024/11/22

Yoav Litvin joins us to discuss his Al Jazeera column, "Project Esther: A Trumpian blueprint to crush anticolonial resistance: The Heritage Foundation strategy named after the biblical Jewish queen offers insights into the persecution those who oppose Zionism and white-supremacy will likely face in Trump’s America." "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview. Check out Yoav's article here:

01:29:03

Trump Presidency Will Expand Unilateral Presidential...

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2024/11/12

Legal scholar Karen Greenberg returns to the show to discuss her recent article at TomDispatch titled "It’s Not Just About the President It’s About the Presidency."Check out Karen's article here: https://tomdispatch.com/its-not-just-about-the-president/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell

01:41:15

Cop Feminisms / Sophie Lewis

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2024/11/06

Returning to This is Hell! is listener favorite Sophie Lewis, author of Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family, as well as Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation. Sophie will be on to talk about her new writing at The Drift, "Lipstick on the Pigs: Kamala Harris and the Lineage of the Female Cop.""The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview. Check out Sophie's article here: https://www.thedriftmag.com/lipstick-on-the-pigs/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely

01:36:34

Feminist Villains / Nicole Froio

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2024/11/05

Co-founder of the new feminist blog, Flytrap, Nicole Froio joins us to discuss her new piece titled, "The (Feminist) Empire Strikes Back." The Flytrap Media is a worker-owned, intersectional, and expansive feminist media group that thinks beyond clicks and hashtag-engagement. "Rotten History" from Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview. Check out Nicole's piece here: https://theflytrap.beehiiv.com/p/the-feminist-empire-strikes-back Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access

01:50:24

The New Apostolic Reformation Wages Spiritual Warfare...

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2024/10/02

Matthew D. Taylor joins us to discuss his book, "The Violent Take It by Force: The Christian Movement That Is Threatening Our Democracy," published just yesterday by Broadleaf Books. Jeff Dorchen joins us after the interview to deliver a new segment of "The Moment of Truth."Check out Matthew's book here: https://www.broadleafbooks.com/store/product/9781506497785/The-Violent-Take-It-by-Force Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our

01:45:17

Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing...

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2024/10/02

Gareth Gore on his book, "Opus: The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy inside the Catholic Church," published just today by Simon and Schuster. "Rotten History" by Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview.Check out Gareth's book here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Opus/Gareth-Gore/9781668016145 Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell

02:06:25

Staten Island's Politics of Resentment / Dennis Hogan

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2024/09/25

We have a treat for all you New Yorkers out there. Writer, academic, organizer, and fourth-generation Staten Islander Dennis Hogan joins us to discuss his recent article from The Baffler, "I Got Mine: Staten Island's Politics of Resentment." "Rotten History" by Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview, as does an all-new "Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen live from another borough of New York. Check out Dennis's article here: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/i-got-mine-hogan Help keep This Is Hell

01:16:13

Gaza Genocide Divides the Organization of American...

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2024/09/18

Center for Economic and Policy Research's Francesca Emanuele on her article, "Gaza Is Causing Diplomatic Rifts in the Western Hemisphere: The Organization of American States’ pro-Israel stance may erode its legitimacy in the region," at Foreign Policy.Check out Francesca's article here: https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/09/12/israel-palestine-gaza-war-oas-latin-america-almagro-us-far-right/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon:

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