This Is Hell!

Chuck Collins on the IPS report "Silver spoon oligarchs: How America’s 50 Largest Inherited-Wealth Dynasties Accelerate Inequality." https://ips-dc.org/report-americas-wealth-dynasties-2021/

Kay Whitlock and Nancy A. Heitzeg on their book "Carceral Con: The Deceptive Terrain of Criminal Justice Reform" from University of California Press. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520343474/carceral-con

Journalist Michael Hudson on the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists's massive Pandora Papers investigation, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen identifies a heinous example of "Missing White Woman Syndrome Derangement Syndrome." https://www.icij.org/investigations/pandora-papers/

Sociologist Stellan Vinthagen on his article "The ZAD: between utopian radicalism and negotiated pragmatism," co-written with Fareen Parvez for ROAR Magazine. https://roarmag.org/essays/zad-radicalism-pragmatism/

Sylvia Kay and Hamza Hamouchene on the report "Towards a Just Recovery from the Covid-19 Crisis: The urgent struggle for food sovereignty in North Africa" for Transnational Institute. https://www.tni.org/en/publication/towards-a-just-recovery-from-the-covid-19-crisis

Kelly Grotke on her article "The Failure of Financialized Higher Ed" for The American Prospect, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen must look back on a piece of theater he never saw. https://prospect.org/education/failure-of-financialized-higher-ed/

Writer Max Haiven on his book "Revenge Capitalism: The Ghosts of Empire, the Demons of Capital, & the Settling of Unpayable Debts" from Pluto Press. http://www.plutobooks.com/9780745340562/revenge-capitalism/

Historian Molly A. Warsh on her book "American Baroque: Pearls and the Nature of Empire, 1492-1700" from UNC Press. https://uncpress.org/book/9781469666259/american-baroque/

Journalist Zachariah Hughes on his three-part series "The Last Wild Kings: A World Without Salmon?" for Anchorage Daily News and the Pulitzer Center. https://pulitzercenter.org/projects/last-wild-kings-world-without-salmon

Kristy Nabhan-Warren on her book "Meatpacking America: How Migration, Work, and Faith Unite and Divide the Heartland" from UNC Press. https://uncpress.org/book/9781469663494/meatpacking-america/

Historian Suzanne Schneider on her book "The Apocalypse and the End of History: Modern Jihad and the Crisis of Liberalism" from Verso Books. https://www.versobooks.com/authors/2565-suzanne-schneider

Journalist Joseph Bernstein on his report "Bad News" for Harper's. https://harpers.org/archive/2021/09/bad-news-selling-the-story-of-disinformation/

Bree Busk on her article "Defending the legacy of Chile’s 2019 uprising" for ROAR Magazine. https://roarmag.org/essays/chile-constitutional-convention-loncon/

James Gustave Speth on his book "They Knew: The US Federal Government's Fifty-Year Role in Causing the Climate Crisis" from MIT Press, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen gets to the power-bottom of Ripley. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/they-knew

Writer Keith Rosenthal on his article "Carceral Histories of Disability:An Abolitionist Analysis" for Spectre Journal. https://spectrejournal.com/carceral-histories-of-disability-an-abolitionist-analysis/

Global health scholar Anne Pollock on her book "Sickening: Anti-Black Racism and Health Disparities in the United States" from The University of Minnesota Press. https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/sickening

Historian Edward J. Watts on his book "The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea" from Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-eternal-decline-and-fall-of-rome-9780190076719?cc=us&lang=en&

Writer and researcher Martine van Bijlert on her articles "The Taleban leadership converges on Kabul as remnants of the republic reposition themselves" and "Afghanistan Has a New Government: The country wonders what the new normal will look like" for The Afghanistan Analysts Network. https://www.afghanistan-analysts.org/en/reports/war-and-peace/the-taleban-leadership-converges-on-kabul-as-the-remnants-of-the-republic-try-to-reposition-themselves/ https://www.afghanistan-analysts.org/en/reports/war-and-peace/afghanistan-has-a-new-government-the-country-wonders-what-the-new-normal-will-look-like/

Writer Geo Maher on his book "A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete" from Verso. https://www.versobooks.com/books/3783-a-world-without-police

Writer Niall Reddy on his article "A terrifying vision of South Africa’s future" for Africa Is A Country, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen seeks relief in our nation's capital. https://africasacountry.com/2021/08/a-terrifying-vision-of-south-africas-future