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Enshittification / Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow returns to This Is Hell! to discuss his new book from Verso, "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What To Do About I...
AI's Environmental Footprint / Ashley Dawson
Ashley Dawson returns to discuss his new piece at the New York Review of Books, "The Costs of the Cloud: How much power does AI consume?" "The Moment...
How Western Ignorance Has Been Plundering Africa / Bronwen Everill
Bronwen Everill joins This Is Hell! to talk about her new book "Africonomics: A History of Western Ignorance”, published by The New Press. https://the...
The Global Economy Runs on Extraction / Lalah Khalili
Political Scientist Laleh Khalili joins us to discuss her new book, "Extractive Capitalism: How Commodities and Cronyism Drive the Global Economy" out...
The Destruction of Democracy to Christianize America / Matthew Boedy
Matthew Boedy, author of “Speaking of Evil”, comes to This Is Hell!! to talk about his new book "The Seven Mountains Mandate: Exposing the Dangerous P...
US Big Tech Supports Israeli Settler Colonialism / Omar Zahzah
Omar Zahzah joins us to discuss his new book, "Terms of Servitude: Zionism, Silicon Valley, and Digital/Settler-Colonialism in the Palestinian Liberat...
The Political Economy of Immigration Detention / Nancy Hiemstra and Deirdre Conlon
Nancy Hiemstra and Deirdre Conlon join us to discuss their new book, "Immigration Detention, Inc.: The Big Business of Locking up Migrants" from Pluto...
Corporate Science Wants You to Buy the World a Coke / Susan Greenhalgh
Susan Greenhalgh joins us to discuss her new book, "Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca Cola" (University of Chicago Press). "This Day in Rot...
On "Squirty Cream" and Other Items from the Mailbag / Chuck Mertz & the World's Best Audience
Due to an unexpected rescheduling of a guest, we present a rare mailbag episode that delves into our esteemed listeners' questions and insights. "The...
The Rich are Falling in Love with Antiracism / Jennifer C. Pan
Jennifer C. Pan joins This Is Hell! to talk about her new book “Selling Social Justice: Why The Rich Love Antiracism” published by Verso Books. (http...
The New Racial Regime / Alana Lentin
Alana Lentin joins us to discuss her new book from Pluto Press, The New Racial Regime: Recalibrations of White Supremacy. "The Moment of Truth" with J...
The American Dream Taken Over By Private Equity / Megan Greenwell
Journalist Megan Greenwell joins This Is Hell! to about her new book "Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream" published by Ha...
The Gaza Genocide in World-Historical Perspective / Gilbert Achcar
Gilbert Achcar joins us to discuss his recent book, "Gaza Catastrophe: The Genocide in World-Historical Perspective" (University of California Press)....
US Sanctions Kill as Many People as Wars / Mark Weisbrot & Francisco Rodriguez
Mark Weisbrot and Francisco Rodríguez join us to discuss their Lancet article, co-authored with Silvio Rendón, "Effects of international sanctions on...
You're on Your Own: MAHA Dismantles Public Health / Rob Wallace & Rita Valenti
Rob Wallace and Rita Valenti join us to discuss their recent articles at Truthout that cover the Trump administration's dismantling of public health i...
Climate Justice Through Collective Liberation / Mikaela Loach
All-new longform interview Hell returns at last!
Mikaela Loach joins us to discuss her new book, "It’s Not That Radical: Climate Action t...
Building Community to Sustain Liberation in Atlanta / Kamau Franklin
We wrap up our three-part series on "No Cop City, No Cop World," by speaking with co-editor and contributor Kamau Franklin, founder of Community Movem...
How the War in Gaza is Becoming the Crime of the Century / Suzy Hansen
Journalist and author Suzy Hansen will returns to This Is Hell! To talk about her New York Magazine article, "Crimes of the Century: How Israel, with...
Deep Background on Bukele's Gulags in El Salvador / John Washington
John Washington joins us to discuss his recent piece in the New York Review of Books, "The Roots of Bukele’s Gulag." An all new "Rotten History" and "...
2020 Flashback: Generalized Precarity and Subversive Pragmatism / Albena Azmanova
While Chuck is out this week, we revisit our first interview from 2020. Theorist Albena Azmanova examines the dynamics of post-2008 precarity capitali...
Resisting "Cop City" in America's Most Surveilled, Unequal City / Micah Herskind
Micah Herskind returns to This Is Hell! to discuss his contribution to the new edited volume, "No Cop City, No Cop World: Lessons from the Movement" f...
The Right's War on Gender is Also a War on Government / Paisley Currah
Paisley Currah joins us to discuss his New Yorker piece, "Donald Trump's War on Gender Is Also a War on Government." "Rotten History" by Renaldo Migal...
Fake Work / Leigh Claire La Berge
Leigh Claire La Berge joins us to discuss her new book published today by Haymarket, "Fake Work: How I Began to Suspect Capitalism is a Joke." "Rotten...
Inventing "Invasion" / Molly Redden
ProPublica's Molly Redden joins us to discuss her article, "The “Invasion” Invention: The Far Right’s Long Legal Battle to Make Immigrants the Enemy."...
Atlanta's Cop City Brought to You by Southern Capital / Mariah Parker
Mariah Parker joins us to discuss her chapter in the new co-authored book, "No Cop City, No Cop World: Lessons from the Movement." A classic "Moment o...
Recognizing AI Hype and How People Can Fight Back / Emily Bender and Alex Hanna
Dr. Emily M. Bender and Dr. Alex Hanna come on the show to talk about their new book “The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future W...
Subsidizing Crypto in the Climate Crisis / Candice Bernd
Candice Bernd returns to This Is Hell! to discuss her recent writing at The American Prospect, "The Crypto Racket." After the interview, we hear a cla...
Overbroad Antisemitism Definitions Discipline the Jewish Diaspora / Lihi Yona & Itamar Mann
Lihi Yona and Itamar Mann join us to discuss their recent UCLA Law Review piece, "Defending Jews From the Definition of Antisemitism." A special 10th...
Interracial Labor Solidarity in the United States / Cedric de Leon
Sociologist Cedric de Leon joins us to discuss his new book, "Freedom Train: Black Politics and the Story of Interracial Labor Solidarity" from Univer...
Enemy Feminisms / Sophie Lewis
Sophie Lewis returns to This Is Hell! to discuss her new book, "Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation" from Haymarket...
Marx in America / Andrew Hartman
Historian Andrew Hartman returns to This Is Hell! to discuss his new book from University of Chicago Press, "Karl Marx in America." "The Moment of Tru...
Neofeudalism and the New Class Struggle / Jodi Dean
Academic and author Jodi Dean returns to This Is Hell! to talk about her new book, "Capital's Grave: Neofeudalism and the New Class Struggle" publishe...
A New History of the New World / Greg Grandin
Greg Grandin returns to This Is Hell! to discuss his new book, "America, América: A New History of the New World." "Rotten History" from Renaldo Migal...
What Paths Remain for Preventing Climate Apocalypse? / Malcolm Harris
Malcolm Harris Returns to This Is Hell! to discuss his new book, "What's Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis." "The Moment of Truth" with J...
A Genocide Foretold / Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges discusses his new book, "A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine."
Check out Chris's...
Copaganda / Alec Karakatsanis
Alec Karakatsanis returns to talk about his new book, “Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News.” Alec founded the Civil Rights Corps,...
Neoliberalism Turning To Nature To Defend Inequality / Quinn Slobodian
Author Quinn Slobodian returns to “This Is Hell!” to talk about his new book, “Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ and the Capitalism of the Far Right”,...
Pirate Care / Valeria Graziano and Tomislav Medak
Valeria Graziano, Marcell Mars and Tomislav Medak discuss their book, "Pirate Care: Acts Against the Criminalization of Solidarity." "The Moment of Tr...
How Will History Judge Us After Gaza / Pankaj Mishra
Award-winning author Pankaj Mishra returns to “This Is Hell!” to talk about his new book, “The World After Gaza: A History”, published by the Penguin...
How School Integration Failed Black Students / Noliwe Rooks
Noliwe Rooks returns to This Is Hell! to discuss her recent book, "Integrated: How American Schools Failed Black Children" from Penguin. "Rotten Histo...