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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-erdogan-hdp-peoples-democratic-party-pro-kurdish-socialism

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/rebuilding-the-anti-imperialist-movement-in-a-new-era/

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-immigration-reform-us-citizenship-act

Live from São Paulo, journalist Brian Mier reports on Lula da Silva's legal victory, pandemic politics and antidemocracy in Brazil.

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 capitalism's commodification of the self, and showing us a new way of living together, right now, while we still have the time.

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 Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen visits the Playground of Blood. https://progressive.org/dispatches/remembering-first-gulf-war-kelly-210302

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+and+the+New+Precariat-p-9780745692012

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 Books. https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1664-we-do-this-til-we-free-us

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-water-levy-uyeda

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/

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.plutobooks.com/9780745341347/a-peoples-history-of-europe/

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: Contributing more to the U.S. economy and getting less in return” https://ohiorivervalleyinstitute.org/new-report-natural-gas-county-economies-suffered-as-production-boomed

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 relaxers.

Writer Erald Kolasi on his article "The Ecological State" for Monthly Review and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen celebrates Fat History Month.

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 Bolivarian Revolution" via Monthly Review. https://monthlyreview.org/product/venezuela_the_present_as_struggle/

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 Report's Black Citizenship Forum. https://blackagendareport.com/black-citizenship-forum-black-citizenship-and-problem-coloniality

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 savages and samurai.

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 Making of Modern Virginia" from Belt Publishing. https://beltpublishing.com/products/pure-america

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-medium-design

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 Thinking. https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/epidemic-of-despair-could-haunt-america-long-after-covid

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. https://mronline.org/2021/01/26/four-crises-one-crisis-or-the-health-of-the-people/

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.commondreams.org/views/2021/01/23/beware-corporate-democracy-washing-twitter-trump-and-danger-privatizing-fight

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/apocalypse-then-and-now.php

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

Journalist Brian Mier on his documentary "Dismantling Brazil: Bolsonaro's Neoliberal Agenda" via redfish. https://youtu.be/_ToGVJ3Zk2I

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-edgar-hoover-was-involved-in-fred-hamptons-murder/

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-popular-antifascist-movement/

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-the-rights/

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-coronapolitics-reichstag-capitol

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 revisits the US military’s violations of the hospitality code. http://www.focaalblog.com/2020/12/03/ida-susser-covid-police-brutality-and-race-are-ongoing-french-mobilizations-breaking-through-the-class-boundaries/

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://wwnorton.com/books/9781631493942

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 World on Fire" from Verso. https://www.versobooks.com/books/3665-how-to-blow-up-a-pipeline

Lawyer and farmer activist Avik Saha on the planned corporate takeover of Indian agriculture.

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.com/doi/abs/10.1080/16066359.2020.1793962?journalCode=iart20

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.dukeupress.edu/island-futures

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 International Publishers. https://www.intpubnyc.com/product/the-bittersweet-science-racism-racketeering-an-the-political-economy-of-boxing/

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. Merry Christmas everybody.

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.

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

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.edu/book/9780520371453/the-truth-about-nature

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 Jeff Dorchen juggles delusions about democracy. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/uber-made-big-promises-kenya-drivers-say-it-s-ruined-n1247964

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/content/why-venezuelas-national-assembly-elections-matter

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

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/architecture/sick-architecture/345269/housing-the-poor-for-a-healthy-planet-and-healthy-nation/

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

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/

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.

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.

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/

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-resistance-first-90-days-full-report/

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

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/wolf-schoolhouse-door

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

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/

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 survivor bias. https://progressive.international/wire/2020-10-30-razem-our-bodies-our-lives-our-country-the-world/en

Anthropologist Anna L. Tsing on "Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene" a digital project from Stanford University Press. http://feralatlas.org/

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

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/

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

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/300/300055/the-government-of-no-one/9780141984667.html

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 Trump" for Airwars. https://airwars.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Eroding-Transparency-Trump-in-Yemen.-Airwars-October-2020.pdf

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 culture. https://roarmag.org/essays/chile-constitutional-referendum/

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

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-home/9781541742642/

Journalist Emma Roller on her article "How Wisconsin Became a Bastion of White Supramacy" for The New Republic. https://newrepublic.com/article/159524/wisconsin-became-bastion-white-supremacy

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, Enviva targets Alabama and Mississippi for future expansion " for Scalawag, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen concludes his spiel on class consciousness. https://scalawagmagazine.org/2020/10/wood-pellet-environmental-racism-part-one/ https://scalawagmagazine.org/2020/10/wood-pellet-environmental-racism-part-two/

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

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-origins-of-covid-19/

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-melting-climate-change-global-warming

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.societyandspace.org/articles/commotion

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-t-pay-won-t-pay

Writer Thomas Frank on his book "The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism" from Metropolitan Books. https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250220110

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/

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 at the spectrum from white to pale to transparent to invisible. https://mes-africa.org/

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-iuventa-salvini-italy

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?abstract_id=3646630#

Sociologist William I. Robinson on his new book "The Global Police State" from Pluto Press. https://www.plutobooks.com/9781786806666/the-global-police-state/

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. https://tradesecrets.globaljustice.org.uk/ https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/we-must-defeat-us-trade-deal/

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-brief-history-failing-civilization#synopsis

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.opendemocracy.net/en/north-africa-west-asia/capitalist-roots-egyptian-authoritarianism-demystifying-state/ https://carnegieendowment.org/sada/82772

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-wetsuweten/

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

Researcher Christian Sorensen on his book "Understanding the War Industry" from Clarity Press. https://www.claritypress.com/product/understanding-the-war-industry/

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-and-peace/war-in-afghanistan-in-2020-just-as-much-violence-but-no-one-wants-to-talk-about-it/

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 right moment. https://www.societyandspace.org/articles/territory-autonomy-and-rights

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/

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

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-beyond-the-pandemic-agroecology-and-the-need-to-rethink-our-food-system/

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.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/climate-apartheid-is-the-coming-police-violence-crisis

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-becomes-crime/

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=9780674988330

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.org/our-work/research-reports/hidden-plain-sight-racism-white-supremacy-and-far-right-militancy-law

Anthropologist David Graeber's three interviews on This Is Hell!, talking about fun, bureaucracy and bullshit jobs. RIP David.

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" for ROAR. https://roarmag.org/essays/colonial-borders-covid-19/

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/political-commentary/covid-19-end-of-american-era-wade-davis-1038206

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.simonandschuster.com/books/Reaganland/Rick-Perlstein/9781476793054

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.

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 [1:13:23] Manuel Calahan from Accion Zapatista [1:45:18] Christopher Hitchens on the lies of Bill Clinton [2:22:21] Vernon Bellecourt from the American Indian Network [3:07:35] Jon Sinclair from the MC5 [incomplete 3:48:00]

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 Inequality.org, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen publishes the Rotten Egg Manifesto.

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.com/books/2974-first-they-took-rome

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.org/2020/08/solidarity-with-hong-kong/

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 Africa Is A Country. Plus in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen hauls sixteen tons. https://africasacountry.com/2020/07/the-existing-order-of-things https://africasacountry.com/2020/06/the-class-character-of-police-violence

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 Reforms" from The New Press. https://thenewpress.com/books/prison-by-any-other-name

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://www.plutobooks.com/9780745343327/the-hologram/

CEPR policy analyst and former Ecuadorian cabinet member Guillaume Long on lawfare, expulsion and neoliberal, antidemocratic politics in Ecuador.

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 horsemen for the apocalypse. http://hypocritereader.com/95/tamara-fernando-mannar-pearls-cholera

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 THISISHELL15 and get 15% off the book at OR's site, plus a free download of Ashley's book "Extinction: A Radical History." https://www.orbooks.com/catalog/peoples-power/

Live from São Paulo, Brian Mier on the work of his friend Michael Brooks, and COVID19 politics in Brazil.

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.org/2020/07/what-to-do-once-weve-defunded-the-police

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 wants to sell you another improved fascism. https://www.counterpointpress.com/dd-product/desert-notebooks/

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

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. https://monthlyreview.org/product/the-dawning-of-the-apocalypse/

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/archive/2020/07/mcgirt-case-historic-win-tribes/614071/

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.

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/anarcho-blackness.html

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/2020/07/camden-new-jersey-police-reform-surveillance

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 happens after the future. https://truthout.org/articles/police-unions-are-racist-power-brokers-in-opposition-to-movement-for-black-lives/

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 Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-government-of-beans

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.societyandspace.org/articles/spaces-of-publicness

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/revolution-or-ruin/

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-nationalist-unconscious/

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://bostonreview.net/law-justice/kate-levine-joanna-schwartz-hold-prosecutors-accountable-too

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 California Press. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520295872/tiny-you

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.org/essays/lessons-from-the-pandemic-for-the-municipalists-in-spain/

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.

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/9780691182155/the-deportation-machine

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 California Press. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520304512/the-feminist-war-on-crime

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

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 Agenda Report. https://www.blackagendareport.com/community-control-vs-defunding-police-critical-analysis

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/2020/06/08/mask-off-crisis-struggle-in-the-pandemic/

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 University Press. https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674984615

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/editorial/the-triumph-of-black-lives-matter-and-neoliberal-redemption

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. https://thebaffler.com/salvos/were-not-in-this-together-chaudhary

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 State" from Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/stranger-danger-9780190913984?cc=us&lang=en&#

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 English. https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/black-liberal-time-george-floyd-200601155933648.html

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 Truth, Jeff Dorchen attends the Get Real Shabbat. https://truthout.org/articles/forget-looting-capitalism-is-the-real-robbery/

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/book/9780520344396/american-roulette

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 Counterpunch. https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/06/01/racial-domestic-terrorism-and-the-legacy-of-state-violence/

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/books/3079-potential-history

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 Withstand Climate Crisis?" for Monthly Review. https://monthlyreview.org/2020/04/01/how-long-can-neoliberalism-withstand-climate-crisis/

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. And in a Moment of Truth, opportunity knocks and Jeff Dorchen answers. https://chicago.eater.com/2020/5/6/21243329/hopleaf-bar-owner-michael-roper-coronavirus-challenges-andersonville

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 the Arabian Peninsula" from Verso. https://www.versobooks.com/books/3172-sinews-of-war-and-trade

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. https://www.dukeupress.edu/porkopolis

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

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 Venezuelanalysis. https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/14864

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/9780520305410/coerced

Matt Peterson and Maria Herron of Woodbine on building networks of solidarity and aid under quarantine in New York City. https://www.woodbine.nyc/

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.

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.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/race-and-blame/609946/

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 Inside of Us" in the collection "Deciding for Ourselves" from AK Press.

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://unevenearth.org/2020/04/this-pandemic-is-ecological-breakdown-different-tempo-same-song/ PLUS: Chuck on who is all in this together, and the week in Rotten History...

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.

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 Zed Books. https://www.zedbooks.net/shop/book/the-emperor-is-naked/

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. https://www.akpress.org/deciding-for-ourselves.html

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 calling in exchange for fame and fortune.

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 Melville House. https://www.mhpbooks.com/books/shit-is-fucked-up-and-bullshit/

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 Century Fascism." https://cosmonaut.blog/2020/03/26/the-end-of-the-end-of-history-covid-19-and-21st-century-fascism/

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 Is Not Betrayal, It’s a Reality-Check" for the American Herald Tribune. https://ahtribune.com/us/2020-election/4060-bernie-sanders-exit-reality-check.html

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 Snake Oil Salesman [Part 1 of 4]

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 Fernando Chaves and Rodrick Wallace for Monthly Review. https://monthlyreview.org/2020/04/01/covid-19-and-circuits-of-capital/

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 University Press. https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300230031/we-are-cuba

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.

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/online-only/chinese-virus-world-market/

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 with Shawn Fremstad for CEPR. https://cepr.net/the-u-s-response-to-covid-19-whats-in-federal-legislation-and-whats-not-but-still-needed/

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! Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution" from Verso: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3151-burn-it-down PLUS: Chuck can't go back to whatever normal was, and this week in Rotten History...

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.

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-for-a-post-pandemic-liberation/

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 EconFIP. https://econfip.org/policy-brief/a-war-footing-surfing-the-curve

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. https://mronline.org/2020/01/29/notes-on-a-novel-coronavirus/ PLUS: Chuck on survival capitalism and this week in Rotten History...

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 Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen ranks the Austrian nobility. https://www.leftvoice.org/the-u-s-constitution-and-the-myth-of-liberal-democracy

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 Carbonization" from University of California Press. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520310728/powering-empire

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.

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. https://www.zedbooks.net/shop/book/work-want-work/ PLUS: Chuck on locking ourselves away, and this week in Rotten History...

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 of a whale. https://redpaper.yellowheadinstitute.org/

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: The Case Against Joe Biden" from Verso and Jacobin. https://www.jacobinmag.com/store/product/67

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 Gilded Age” from Beacon Press. http://www.beacon.org/The-Smartphone-Society-P1551.aspx PLUS: Chuck isn’t going anywhere soon, and the Question From Hell!

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 with Aya H Kimura for Rutgers University Press. https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/science-by-the-people/9780813595078 PLUS: Chuck on who chose Biden, and this week in Rotten History.

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 one for the Rosas.

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.dukeupress.edu/her-stories

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.haymarketbooks.org/books/1381-bit-tyrants PLUS: Chuck talks about what won't get talked about in primary coverage, and this week's Question From Hell!

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” for Viewpoint. https://www.viewpointmag.com/2019/12/16/on-depoliticization/ PLUS: Chuck gambles on Biden 2020, and this week in Rotten History…

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 Truth, Jeff Dorchen defends the obvious. https://roarmag.org/essays/intelligent-corporation-platform-capitalism/

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 Verso. https://www.versobooks.com/books/3166-toward-freedom

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://theoutline.com/post/8721/democratic-debaste-superdelegates-dnc-convention Plus: Listener Feedback and the Question from Hell!

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-works/ PLUS: Chuck gets trolled by CNN, and this week in Rotten History...

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," and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen punctures the balloons and hands and feet of the faithful. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/612534/prejudential-by-margaret-kimberley/

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.org/product/the-robbery-of-nature/

Writer and critic Kate Wagner on the aesthetics of post-industrial decline, and her Baffler article “Staring at Hell”
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 https://thebaffler.com/salvos/staring-at-hell-wagner PLUS: Listener Feedback, and this week’s Question From Hell.

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 Plus: Chuck doesn't travel well, and this week in Rotten History...

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/can-extinction-rebellion-survive

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-class

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-conservation-revolution PLUS: Chuck visits the mall, and this week in Rotten History...

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 savior. https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/samuel-woolley/the-reality-game/9781541768253/

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

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 California Press. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520300231/bandage-sort-and-hustle

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://www.versobooks.com/books/3078-planetary-mine PLUS: Chuck falls off the Trump Unity Bridge, and this week in Rotten History...

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 Company. https://www.fastcompany.com/90435650/these-are-the-last-years-of-design-as-we-know-it PLUS: In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen beholds the elder gods of American politics.

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 Public Schools” from University of California Press. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520300033/the-labor-of-lunch#about-author

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 Privatization of Space” from Melville House. https://www.mhpbooks.com/books/the-consequential-frontier/ PLUS: Chuck watches a newscast collapse time.

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 Story of an Atlantic Slave War” from Harvard University Press. https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674737570 PLUS: Chuck reads the news you didn’t, and this week in Rotten History.

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 breathing in 2020. https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/salmon-and-acorns-feed-our-people/9780813584195

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-epa-carcinogens-regulations/

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 writer, and this week in Rotten History.

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-incarceration PLUS: Chuck can't get high after not talking about his show.

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. https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=27429 PLUS: Chuck wonders who the Clintons were triangulating with on immigration.

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" from Verso Books. https://www.versobooks.com/books/2858-all-american-nativism PLUS: Chuck visits the future, and this week in Rotten History.

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 Books. https://repeaterbooks.com/product/new-model-island-how-to-build-a-radical-culture-beyond-the-idea-of-england/ PLUS: Listener Feedback

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 through the NRA’s official magazine before turning the gun on himself, and Question From Hell.

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 Without Crisis or Utopia" from Columbia University Press. http://cup.columbia.edu/book/capitalism-on-edge/9780231195379 PLUS: Chuck passes on legal weed and the week in Rotten History.

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.

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 What We Can Do to Fix It" https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/12/12/the-strange-death-of-social-democratic-england/ https://www.ruinedby.design/

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 History... https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/10/opinion/france-strike-macron.html

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://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/40318

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.

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: Chuck's favorite books of 2019 and This Week in Rotten History...

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 Organization." PLUS: In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen tries on money-colored glasses. https://www.viewpointmag.com/2019/11/15/back-to-the-future/

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."

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 seeing his family, and This Week in Rotten History...

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 Thanksgiving." https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/this-land-is-their-land-9781632869265/

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 miserable on Thanksgiving, and This Week in Rotten History...

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/unwanted-spy/9781568585581/

Journalist Jacquelyn Kovarik on her article "Bolivia’s Anti-Indigenous Backlash Is Growing" for The Nation. https://www.thenation.com/article/bolivia-morales-whipala/

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 US Military"

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." https://fair.org/home/media-conceal-chiles-state-criminality-delegitimize-bolivian-democracy/ https://fair.org/home/whitewashing-neoliberal-repression-in-chile-and-ecuador/

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 Politics in the West" from Columbia University Press. / Brasilwire editor Brian Mier on the release of Brazilian political prisoner Lula da Silva.

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://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/611300/living-in-a-world-that-cant-be-fixed-by-curtis-white/9781612198088/ https://monthlyreview.org/product/value-chains/

Anthropologist Jason Pine on the industrial alchemy of meth in late capitalist America. https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-alchemy-of-meth PLUS: Chuck gets anti-capitalist ASMR tingles and the week in Rotten History.

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: Jeff Dorchen examines some momentous events through the lens of The Great Emancipator, Mark Zuckerberg, and Question From Hell.

Social scientist Christine Scott-Hayward on the deep social cost of a money bail system. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520298316/punishing-poverty PLUS: Chuck explains what This Is Hell! actually is.

Journalist Luke O'Neil on his book "Welcome to Hell World: Dispatches from the American Dystopia" and Chuck explains what the show isn't.

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 Donald Trump for raising awareness about racism / Question From Hell

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.html PLUS: Chuck asks to speak to a manager.

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-Housing-Justice-and-Urban-Politics/Martinez/p/book/9781138856950 PLUS: Chuck watches Greta Thunberg, sitting alone / This week in Rotten History.

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.

Andrea Boyles on Black community organizing five years after Ferguson. / Jenny Brown on the long fight for abortion access.

Journalist Madeleine Schwartz on her New York Review of Books article "Inside the Deportation Courts."

Political scientist Corey Robin on his book "The Enigma of Clarence Thomas" from Metropolitan Books.

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 Truth, Jeff Dorchen notes the limits of Jewish exceptionalism

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

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.

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-comrade

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-banks PLUS: Chuck on climate change and American exceptionalism.

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]

Recent interviews on incarceration.

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]

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]

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.

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 Amazon up in smoke [3:36:14]

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, Art, Sport, and Culture for Women in Struggle” in Zapatista territory [57:29] / Historian Ashley D. Farmer examines the radical work of women in the Black Power movement [1:19:44] / Organizer Bree Busk explores the rise of a multisectoral, transversal feminist movement in Chile. [1:51:05] / Theorist Sophie Lewis explores the radical horizon of gestational politics [2:34:42] / Writer Zillah Eisenstein explains why the mounting crises we face cannot be reformed individually, but fought collectively. [3:14:55]

Your bitter, blind, broke, gap-toothed radio host Chuck Mertz talks about what he learned from going on another podcast last week.

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Highlight interviews from the first half of 2019. Featuring Marco Roth, Richard Seymour, adrienne maree brown, Barnaby Raine and Marshall Auerback.

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]

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 dominance [1:23:05] / Sam Quinones on opiate distribution networks [2:06:45] / Donna Murch on racial capital, opioids and enforcement [2:51:20] / Jeff Dorchen on his supply of pills [3:40:36]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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 stores [3:11:30] / Interkvetchionalism [3:50:55]

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]

Episode 1050: Detroit (Playlist - April 6 2019) by This is Hell!

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 the Façade [3:46:26]

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]

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] / The economy of lies [3:52:49]

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 view [3:45:53]

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 praise of snitches [3:47:59]

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 working class policies challenged the power of neoliberal machine politics, maybe pointing towards a strategy for building electoral power for the people. Miles wrote the In These Times cover story Chicago's Political Revolution.

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] Moment of Truth - Peoria [54:21] Gary Webb on CIA / crack [59:01] Ryan du Val on the Sistine dorm [1:34:18] Count Zero on Cult of the Dead Cow [1:48:41] Moment of Truth - Clinton's impeachment [2:17:15] Bob the gambler on gambling [2:23:35] Liz Palmer on Brat Magazine [2:39:40] Alex Heard on end times subculture [2:58:28] Moment of Truth - End of the century [3:32:08]

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]

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 the incarceration of Black woman in America [3:13:04] / Dinosaur fuel [3:54:00]

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 farm [3:43:50]

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 Vladimir Putin's television. [1:05:28] Sean Guillory on hard times facing the Russian left. [1:47:20] Tony Wood on Putin's hand in post-Soviet Russian politics. [2:39:43] China Mieville on what Russia 1917 can teach the pre-revolutionary world. [3:25:06]

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]

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 Alvarez explores the sanctity of waste and ownership in the digital age. [50:36] Policy researcher Stacy Mitchell examines the rise and risk of Amazon's ascendant monopoly. [1:37:40] Writer Adam Kotsko explains why we are all trapped in the moral logic of neoliberalism. [2:15:05] Writer Pavlos Roufos dives deep into eight years of managed disaster for the Greek people under Europe's austerity regime. [2:56:25] In a moment of truth, Jeff Dorchen bites the invisible hand that feeds. [3:50:27]

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] Nomi Prins explains how central banks became a global superpower. [1:32:46] Pavo Jarvensivu and Terre Vaden explore near future economics of a world in climate crisis. [2:19:14] Helena Norberg-Hodge looks towards localization, worldwide. [2:57:47] Jeff Dorchen imagines a world that can no longer afford itself [3:44:13]

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]

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]

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 change my mind [3:09:00] / 101 Welbutrins [3:47:48]

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]

Producer Alex picks his favorite interviews of 2018, featuring: Roy Scranton, Radha D'Souza, Tithi Bhattacharya, Asad Haider, C. Riley Snorton and Max Haiven.

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 [3:41:39] / The Congressional ideology gap [3:58:53]

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 Party. [35:50]

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 suburbs.

Eleanor Penny on Steve Bannon's European Dream [5:44] / Aaron Timms on a liberal order running out the clock. [36:45]

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]

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.

Biophysical economist Paavo Järvensivu and philosopher Tere Vadén explore the near future of a world in capital and climate crisis. [16:52]

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 thinking [3:45:08]

Recent interviews on neoliberal politics, global capitalism and the right's rise to power.

Recent interviews on capitalism, technology and systems of control - handpicked by Producer Leo.

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]

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]

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]

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]

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] / SCROTUS opinion [3:48:06]

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]

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]

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 [3:48:02]

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] / Don't rock the boat [3:46:46]

Passive voice aggression [16:45] / The politics of empathy [1:04:38] / Labor's last weapon [2:01:16]

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]

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]

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]

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] / Eerie canal [3:55:21]

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 afford to live [3:33:20]

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 Hook [3:46:20]

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 Lemma [3:45:57]

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]

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 problem [3:08:52] / It ain't over [3:48:15]

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, bad guys [3:47:36]

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]

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 [3:02:06] / No water, no power in Puerto Rico [3:37:18]

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] Notes on John Lennon's piano [3:46:45]

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] / Infinite Just [3:48:22]

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] Thank you for your service economy [3:48:08]

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 unseen country [3:44:33]

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. [53:20] Zoé Samudzi and William C. Anderson on the anarchism of Blackness [1:34:07] Max Haiven on financialization and reactionary authoritarianism. [2:26:42] Tasos Sagris on the work of anarchists in austerity-era Greece [2:55:46] Mary Otto on America’s most and least visible healthcare crisis. [3:19:28]

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 of #Resistance [1:24:12] Henry Giroux on cruelty and isolation in politics [1:54:24] Jodi Dean on the promise of the Communist Manifesto [2:29:09] Thomas Frank on the Democratic Party's dead end [3:10:45]

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]

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 [3:07:53] / Bad seeds of speculation [3:49:02]

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 understanding [2:31:38] / The NFL's downward spiral [3:11:14] / The cereal is the message [3:43:47]