This Is Hell!
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 650:47:49
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Synopsis
Long-form interviews with writers, thinkers and workers from around the world and across the spectrum of experience.
Episodes
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The History of Personhood in the Abortion Debate / Brianna Muir
31/08/2022 Duration: 01h27minBrianna Muir wrote the Sapiens article, "An Archaeology of Personhood and Abortion: Opinions about fetal personhood and abortion have fluctuated enormously throughout history and differ in surprising ways between cultures." Brianna is a master’s student in biological anthropology at the University of Central Florida. As an emerging bioarchaeologist, she is interested in how integrative approaches can be used to address questions of personhood, identity, and agency in the past. In particular, she investigates how these factors may have shaped and influenced a person’s lived experiences. Muir received her B.A. from the Australian National University in 2019 and has undertaken fieldwork and research in the Philippines, Vanuatu, and Australia.
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Leaving the Ivy League / William Deresiewicz
30/08/2022 Duration: 01h13minWilliam Deresiewicz is a writer and former professor of English at Yale University. William discusses his article "Why I Left Academia (Since You're Wondering)" published August 17th 2022 on Quillete.com with host Chuck Mertz. New responses to the Question From Hell and this week in Rotten History
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Flooding in Eastern Kentucky / Tarence Ray
29/08/2022 Duration: 01h22minWe have on Tarence Ray from the Trillbilly Worker's Party podcast to discuss the devastating effects of recent flooding in Eastern Kentucky and how the government response affected the poor and working class.
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How Bad is Inflation? / Dean Baker
24/08/2022 Duration: 01h08minThe return of economist Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic Policy and Research. Dean is on to discuss his most recent writing, including, “Structuring the Economy to Give Money to the Rich Is Inflationary.”
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Lessons From the Cold War / Penny M. Von Eschen
23/08/2022 Duration: 01h27minPenny M. Von Eschen is author of the new book, “Paradoxes of Nostalgia: Cold War Triumphalism and Global Disorder since 1989.” Penny is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of American Studies and Professor of History at the University of Virginia and author of, “Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War,” and “Race against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937–1957.” We speak with Penny about the enduring legacy of the Cold War in international politics.
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Disability is Everybody's Problem Some Day
22/08/2022 Duration: 01h33minSociologist Laura Mauldin talks about her Baffler article "Care Tactics: Hacking an Ableist World," we introduce this week's Question from Hell!, and bring you your Hangover Cure for this Monday. Also, producer Seb gives another history lesson on the Nazis, and the Holocaust - and why we need to remember it.
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Heather Berg / The Stripper in the Coal Mine: Sex Work and Labor Rights
18/08/2022 Duration: 01h25minGender and Sexuality studies scholar Heather Berg talks about her Boston Review article "Freedom, Not Benefits Sex workers are labor’s vanguard. The left ignores them at its peril." We have the winning answer to this week's Question from Hell!, and producer Seb introduces his rebranded segment "The Past inside the Present" with the first half of a two-parter on the most fun topic of all: the Holocaust. https://bostonreview.net/articles/freedom-not-benefits/
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Jobs Disparity, Mass Incarceration, and Crypto in Black America / Algernon Austin
17/08/2022 Duration: 01h29minAlgernon Austin, Director for Race and Economic Jusice at the Center for Economic and Policy research discusses his recent writing including, "Black People Need Better Options than the Morgue or Mass Incarceration," "Black People (And Everyone Else) Should Avoid Crypto," "Only Radical Changes Will Make Rents Affordable," and "Black Children are Disproportionately Harmed by Extremist Gun Rights Policies in the US.
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Dispatches from the Viral Underclass / Steven Thrasher
16/08/2022 Duration: 01h22minChuck is back from his vacation! Today he talked to journalist Steven Thrasher about his book "The Viral Underclass The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide." We also have your Hangover Cure, this week in Rotten History, and some of your answers to the Question from Hell!.
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STAFF PICKS: The Enduring Siege of Gaza / Norman Finkelstein
10/08/2022 Duration: 01h31minProducer Dan introduces two interviews with activist and scholar Norman Finkelstein, talking about the Israeli siege of Gaza. We also crown this week's winning answer to the Question from Hell!.
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STAFF PICKS: Disease and Capitalist Labor / Tamara Fernando
09/08/2022 Duration: 54minProducer Lindsey presents a 2020 interview with Labor historian Tamara Fernando on disease and East Indian pearl fisheries, and what those early capitalist labor conditions in relation to diseases can tell us about the still-current moment.
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STAFF PICKS: Growing to Extinction / Ashley Dawson
08/08/2022 Duration: 01h13minProducer Seb introduces a 2016 interview with postcolonial studies scholar Ashley Dawson on capitalism powered extinction events around the globe. He also has some answers to this week's Question from Hell! and tries (without success) to come up with a valid hangover cure.
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STAFF PICKS: Toxic Capitalism Makes Us Sick / Elizabeth Grossman & Valerie Brown
03/08/2022 Duration: 01h06minProducer Lindsey plays a 2015 interview with science journalists Elizabeth Grossman and Valerie Brown on the failure of government regulatory agency and corporate greed in the chemical industry and how those things are making everyone sicker and less safe.
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STAFF PICKS: Kurdish Freedom Movements and Alternatives to Capitalism / Dilar Dirik
03/08/2022 Duration: 01h57minProducer Dan introduces two interviews with Kurdish activist Dilar Dirik, talking about the movement for Kurdish liberation and how that movement's politics represent an alternate vision to the neoliberal world order.
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STAFF PICKS: The U.S. Wars and the Rise of ISIS / Robert Fisk, Patrick Cockburn
02/08/2022 Duration: 01h20minProducer Dan plays two interviews from the vault that deal with the U.S. war in Iraq, and the subsequent rise of ISIS in the region.
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Black Hawk Frown - U.S. Military Returns to Somalia / Amanda Sperber
27/07/2022 Duration: 01h21minWe welcome investigative journalist Amanda Sperber back to the program to talk about her recent Baffler article "Prelude to a Redeployment - Listening for signs of the Americans in Kismayo, Somalia." After the interview we present a brand new Moment of Truth with Jeff Dorchen, and declare the winning answer to this week's Question from Hell!. https://thebaffler.com/latest/prelude-to-a-redeployment-sperber
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Not Funny: Racist Humor and White Supremacy / Raul Perez
26/07/2022 Duration: 01h16minSociologist Raul Perez talks about his book "The Souls of White Jokes: How Racist Humor Fuels White Supremacy," we have this week in Rotten History, and read more of your answers to this week's Question from Hell!.
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Texas, and the Origins of American Fascism / Gerald Horne
25/07/2022 Duration: 01h29minWe welcome Gerald Horne back to the show to talk about most recent book "The Counter-Revolution of 1836 - Texas Slavery & Jim Crow and the Roots of U.S. Fascism." Stay tuned and learn of this week's whale-snack sized hangover cure, hear this week's Question from Hell!, and learn from Seb's Soapbox about some of the origins of Whiteness.
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Rearming the Constitution / William E. Forbath
20/07/2022 Duration: 01h25minWe welcome legal scholar and lawyer William E. Forbath to the program to talk about his book "The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution." Chuck muses about 26 years of running God's favorite radio program with Jeff Dorchen in this week's Moment of Truth, and we declare the winning answer to this week's Question from Hell!
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Not a Riot: Race Massacres & Capitalism / Dre Cummings & Kalvin Graham
19/07/2022 Duration: 01h23minWe welcome law scholars Dre Cummings and Kalvin Graham to talk about their work published in Tulsa Law Review about the relationship between race massacres and capitalism. We also have This Week in Rotten History, and more of your answers to this week's Question from Hell!