This Is Hell!
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 652:50:51
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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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1366: Individual freedom and collective disaster / Keir Milburn
20/07/2021 Duration: 01h10minWriter Keir Milburn on conceptions of freedom in an unequal society, pandemic lockdowns and the climate crises to come, and his article "‘Freedom Day’ Won’t Set Us Free" for Novara. https://novaramedia.com/2021/07/19/freedom-day-wont-set-us-free/
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1365: Connected in crisis / Tanvi Misra
19/07/2021 Duration: 01h22minWriter Tanvi Misra on her article "Broader Crises" for The Baffler. https://thebaffler.com/latest/broader-crises-misra
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1365: Vaccine corruption in Brazil / Brian Mier
15/07/2021 Duration: 01h11minSão Paulo correspondent Brian Mier on his Brasilwire article "Covid 19 Scandal: Brazilian Military Threatens Senate" and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen tries to tame taboos with internet knowledge. https://www.brasilwire.com/covid-19-scandal-brazilian-military-threatens-senate/
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1364: Toward abolitionist agroecology / Maywa Montenegro de Wit
14/07/2021 Duration: 01h16minPolitical ecologist Maywa Montenegro de Wit on her book "Abolitionist Agroecology, Food Sovereignty and Pandemic Prevention" from Daraja Press and Monthly Review. https://darajapress.com/publication/abolitionist-agroecology-food-sovereignty-and-pandemic-prevention
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1363: Violence and humanism / Brad Evans
13/07/2021 Duration: 01h19minWriter Brad Evans on his book "Ecce Humanitas: Beholding the Pain of Humanity" from Columbia University Press. http://cup.columbia.edu/book/ecce-humanitas/9780231184632
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1362: Healthcare labor in the deindustrialized US / Gabriel Winant
12/07/2021 Duration: 01h18minHistorian Gabriel Winant on his book "The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America" from Harvard University Press. https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674238091
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1361: Kentucky opioid war dialectics / Tarence Ray
08/07/2021 Duration: 01h21minWriter Tarence Ray on his Baffler article "United in Rage" and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen eats from the poison tree. https://thebaffler.com/salvos/united-in-rage-ray
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1360: The Alamo, and battles over US history / Chris Tomlinson
07/07/2021 Duration: 01h17minWriter Chris Tomlinson on his book "Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth," co-written with Bryan Burrough and Jason Stanford for Penguin Press. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/623832/forget-the-alamo-by-bryan-burrough-chris-tomlinson-and-jason-stanford/
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1359: Food sovereignty in Nicaragua / Rohan Rice
06/07/2021 Duration: 01h18minWriter Rohan Rice on his article "Hunger and food production in Nicaragua: how do we feed the people?" for People's Dispatch. https://peoplesdispatch.org/2021/06/27/hunger-and-food-production-in-nicaragua-how-do-we-feed-the-people/
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1358: Planning a democratic economy / Robin Hahnel
01/07/2021 Duration: 01h27minEconomist Robin Hahnel on his book "Democratic Economic Planning" from Routledge, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen tries to pull magic out of a hat. https://www.routledge.com/Democratic-Economic-Planning/Hahnel/p/book/9781032003320
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ARCHIVE: Robin Hahnel on the 2008 financial crisis [2010]
29/06/2021 Duration: 37minEconomist Robin Hahnel on the roots of the 2008 financial crisis, and reactions from the political establishment. [We had Robin scheduled for today but Chuck got sick - rescheduling don't worry!]
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ARCHIVE: Eyal Weizman + Gregory Levey on Israeli occupation and right-wing movement [2007]
28/06/2021 Duration: 59minTwo archive interviews on Israel's occupation of Palestine and growing right-wing political movement with Eyal Weizman and Gregory Levey.
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1357: Tech, labor and the future of the US Postal Service / Brian Justie
24/06/2021 Duration: 01h27minWriter Brian Justie on his article "The Nonmachinables" for Logic Magazine, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen's coming for dinner. https://logicmag.io/distribution/the-nonmachinables/
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1356: US sanctions and vaccine imperialism / Cole Stangler
23/06/2021 Duration: 01h11minJournalist Cole Stangler on his article "U.S. Sanctions on Cuba and Venezuela Hamper the Global Fight Against Covid-19" for The Intercept. https://theintercept.com/2021/06/18/covid-vaccine-cuba-venezuela-sanctions/
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1355: Gun laws and Black America / Carol Anderson
23/06/2021 Duration: 01h10minHistorian Carol Anderson on her book "The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America" from Bloomsbury. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-second-9781635574258/
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1354: New governments in Iran and Israel / Juan Cole
22/06/2021 Duration: 01h18minHistorian Juan Cole on his articles "What does the election of hard liner Raisi in Iran mean for Mideast Flashpoints?" and "Israel’s New Secular Government: Lieberman Crows that he Sidelined Fundamentalist Ultra-Orthodox and, read his lips: “No new taxes”" for Informed Comment. https://www.juancole.com/author/jcedit
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1353: Social movements and water access in Brazil / Caitlin Schroering
17/06/2021 Duration: 01h11minSociologist Caitlin Schroering on her article "Inside the struggle for water sovereignty in Brazil" for ROAR Magazine, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen inspects the foundation of The House of Bad Opinions. https://roarmag.org/essays/brazil-mab-water-sovereignty/
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1352: Climate action and institutional activism / Madison Condon
16/06/2021 Duration: 01h13minLaw scholar Madison Condon on her Boston Review article "Climate Change’s New Ally: Big Finance" for Boston Review. http://bostonreview.net/science-nature/madison-condon-climate-change%E2%80%99s-new-ally-big-finance
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1351: The global politics of a Green New Deal / Max Ajl
15/06/2021 Duration: 01h12minSociologist Max Ajl on his new book "A People’s Green New Deal" from Pluto Press. http://www.plutobooks.com/9780745341750/a-peoples-green-new-deal/
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1350: Nazi profit and post-war capital / Erica X Eisen
10/06/2021 Duration: 01h12minWriter Erica X Eisen on her article "The Other Nuremberg Trials, Seventy-Five Years On" for Boston Review, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen takes us to the depths of glory. https://bostonreview.net/class-inequality-law-justice/erica-x-eisen-other-nuremberg-trials-seventy-five-years