This Is Hell!

Anthropologist James Doucet-Battle on sugar, diabetes, racialized science and his book "Sweetness in the Blood: Race, Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes" from University of Minnesota Press. https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/sweetness-in-the-blood

Economist James K. Galbraith on modern monetary theory, public spending and possibility of post-neoliberal policy, and his article "Who's Afraid of MMT?" for Project Syndicate. https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/why-central-bankers-fear-modern-monetary-theory-by-james-k-galbraith-2020-12

Writer Ketan Joshi on his article "Bitcoin is a mouth hungry for fossil fuels" and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen wants to help you design your own dementia. https://ketanjoshi.co/2021/03/11/bitcoin-is-a-mouth-hungry-for-fossil-fuels/

Journalist Seamus McGraw on his new book "From a Taller Tower: The Rise of the American Mass Shooter" from University of Texas Press. https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/mcgraw-from-a-taller-tower

Political theorist Adrian Kreutz on the UK's proposed anti-protest “Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill," and his article "What good is a right to toothless protest?" for ROAR Magazine. https://roarmag.org/essays/uk-crime-police-protest-bill/

Journalist Alexander Zaitchik on his article "How Bill Gates Impeded Global Access to Covid Vaccines" for The New Republic, and in a Moment of Truth Jeff Dorchen foils another dictatorship before it can start. https://newrepublic.com/article/162000/bill-gates-impeded-global-access-covid-vaccines

Political scientist Laleh Khalili on her article "Apocalyptic Infrastructures" for Noēma Magazine. https://www.noemamag.com/apocalyptic-infrastructures/

Historian Kevin Waite on his book "West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire" from UNC Press. https://uncpress.org/book/9781469663197/west-of-slavery/

Writer Giulio D'Errico on police violence, the state and expanding rifts in Greek society, and his article "Resisting Greece’s rapid descent into authoritarianism" co-authored with Giovanni Marenda for ROAR Magazine. https://roarmag.org/essays/greece-lockdown-koufontinas-protests/

Journalist Cerise Castle on her investigative series "A Tradition of Violence: The History of Deputy Gangs in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department" for Knock LA, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen reflects on how Godzilla and King Kong massacre our fear of massacres. https://knock-la.com/tradition-of-violence-lasd-gang-history/

Disease ecologist Luis Fernando Chaves on his dispatch "Scientists say land use drives new pandemics. But what if 'land' isn’t what they think it is?" for Pandemic Research For The People. https://drive.google.com/file/d/12cW-PkPU9Z5TtoEMqKuhPnUGsmOLVp16/view

Public policy scholar Anna Artyushina on her article "The EU is launching a market for personal data. Here’s what that means for privacy" for MIT Technology Review. https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/11/1006555/eu-data-trust-trusts-project-privacy-policy-opinion/

Writer Rich Woodall on the financialization of music catalogues and his article "Mass Hipgnosis" for The Baffler. https://thebaffler.com/latest/mass-hipgnosis-woodall

Writer Ben Ehrenreich on his article "We're Hurtling Toward Global Suicide" for The New Republic. https://newrepublic.com/article/161575/climate-change-effects-hurtling-toward-global-suicide

Writer Curt Guyette on his article "The Fight for Affordable Water" for ACLU Michigan. https://www.aclumich.org/en/news/fight-affordable-water

Historian Andrew Bacevich on his article "On Shedding an Obsolete Past: Biden Defers to the Blob" for TomDispatch. https://tomdispatch.com/on-shedding-an-obsolete-past/

Urbanist Davarian L. Baldwin on the dynamics between urban universities and the communities outside their walls, and his book "In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities" from Bold Type Books. https://www.boldtypebooks.com/titles/davarian-l-baldwin/in-the-shadow-of-the-ivory-tower/9781568588919/

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