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Torture Is Systemic in Israel's Prisons / Shai Parnes
Shai Parnes, Spokesperson for B'Tselem, The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, on their new report, "Welcome to Hell," a report on the abuse and inhuman treatment of Palestinians held in Israeli custody since October 7th 2023. B’Tselem collected testimonies from 55 Palestinians held during that time and released, almost all with no charges. "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview. Check out B'Tselem's report here: https://www.btselem.org/sites/default/files/publications/202408_welcome_to_hell_eng.pdf Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell

Why You Should Hate the Ruling Class for Its Obscene Wealth / Rob Larson
Economist Rob Larson returns to This Is Hell! to dicsuss "Mastering the Universe: The Obscene Wealth of the Ruling Class, What They Do with Their Money, and Why You Should Hate Them Even More," (Haymarket Books) on the day it's published. "Rotten History" by Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview. Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell

Far-Right, Anti-Immigration Riots in the UK / Daniel Trilling
Daniel Trilling discusses his London Review of Books article, "This Time It's Worse," on the UK far-right riots. "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen and "Rotten History" by Renaldo Migaldi follow the interview. Check out Daniel's article here: https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/august/this-time-it-s-worse Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell

Listener Picks: Peter Thiel's Dream of Capitalism without Democracy / Quinn Slobodian
Historian Quinn Slobodian joins This is Hell! to discuss his new book, Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy. Quinn is the award-winning author of, Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism, which has been translated into six languages. He is a professor of the history of ideas at Wellesley College. A classic "Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview. Check out Quinn's book here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250753892/crackupcapitalism Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell

Listener Picks: What Direction for the French Left? / Jacob Hamburger
Journalist Jacob Hamburger examines the present state and future choices of France's left wing insurgent movement La France Insoumise - rebelling against the failures of France's mainstream socialist party and the successes of its center right neoliberal president, and wavering between chasing populist energy and uniting a splintered French left. After the interview, we hear Renaldo Migaldi's handpicked "The Worst of Rotten History." Jacob wrote the article Whose Populism? The Mixed Messages of La France Insoumise for Dissent: https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/whose-populism-mixed-messages-france-insoumise-melenchon-left/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell

Listener Picks: Palestinian Liberation and Separating Vengeance from Justice / Arielle Angel
Our listener-favorite showcase continues with Jewish Currents editor-in-chief Arielle Angel joins This Is Hell! to discuss her essay on current state of the Palestinian liberation movement, "'We Cannot Cross Until We Carry Each Other.'" We will also hear a classic The Past Inside the Present with past-correspondent and producer Sebastian Wuepper that offers a succinct and nuanced unpacking of the process of settler colonialism and weighs in on whether or not the term correctly applies to Zionism. Check out Arielle's article here: https://jewishcurrents.org/we-cannot-cross-until-we-carry-each-other Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell

Listener Picks: Following the Rules to the Heart of Bureaucracy / David Graeber
Anthropologist David Graeber explores the bureaucratic dimension that rules our lives, takes our money, and stretches between the public and private, the right and the left, between capitalism and whatever comes next. A classic "Moment of Truth" from Jeff Dorchen follows the interview. Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

Listener Picks: Disability Is Everyone's Problem / Laura Mauldin
Chuck interviews sociologist Laura Mauldin on her Baffler piece "Care Tactics: Hacking an Ableist World." An installment of classic "Rotten History" segments handpicked by Renaldo Migaldi himself that we like to call "The Worst of Rotten History" follows the interview. Check out Laura's article here: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/care-tactics-mauldin Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

Listener Picks: Resistence Is Not Enough: On Labor, Strategy, and the Path to Power / Jane McAlevey
Our first installment of our two-week showcase of listener favorites features the late great labor organizer Jane McAlevey. In this July 29, 2017 interview, Jane charts out a course for claiming power in the Trump era - around the bought-off electoral system captured by the rich, and beyond the short-term battles of the online left - towards true power for the American worker, and explains why that path starts with class conciousness and a willingness to battle capital at the point of production. Jane is author of: Raising Expectations and Raising Hell, My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement (Verso, 2012): https://janemcalevey.com/book/raising-expectations-and-raising-hell-my-decade-fighting-for-the-labor-movement/ No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age (Oxford University Press, 2016): https://janemcalevey.com/book/no-shortcuts-organizing-for-power-in-the-new-gilded-age/ A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy (Ecco Press, 2020): https://janemcalevey.com/book/a-collective-bargain-unions-organizing-and-the-fight-for-democracy/ Rules to Win By: Power and Participation in Union Negotiations (Oxford University Press, 2023): https://janemcalevey.com/book/rules-to-win-by-power-and-participation-in-union-negotiations/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

Journalist Who Exposed Cop Gangs Is Being Surveilled and Harassed by Cops / Cerise Castle
Award-winning investigative journalist and podcaster Cerise Castle returns to discuss her latest article at the Los Angeles Public Press, "How LASD surveilled me, a journalist, after I started reporting on deputy gangs: More than 50 LASD employees sent emails about me in the months after I published my reporting." After the interview, Jeff Dorchen delivers "The Moment of Truth" live from Second Story Studios! Check out Cerise's article here: https://lapublicpress.org/2024/07/lasd-surveils-journalist-deputy-gang-reporter/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

Israel Applies "Human Shield" Charge to Every Inch of Gaza / Neve Gordon
Neve Gordon on his Jewish Currents article (co-authored with Nicola Perugini), "A Legal Justification for Genocide." "Rotten History" by Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview. Check out Neve's article here: https://jewishcurrents.org/human-shields-gaza-israel-a-legal-justification-for-genocide Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

Demonizing Opioids Has Unintended Consequences / Ann Neumann
Ann Neumann returns to This is Hell! to discuss her Baffler Magazine article, "Pain and Suffering: The extraordinary power of opium products to alleviate pain is complicated by the language." "The Moment of Truth" follows the interview. Check out Ann's article here: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/pain-and-suffering-neumann Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

Everglades Non-Profit Sues Former Scientist for Stealing Trade Secrets / Boyce Upholt
Award-winning investigative journalist Boyce Upholt returns to discuss his article at The New Republic, "An Everglades Scientist on Trial in Ron DeSantis’s Kingdom: A powerful nonprofit, closely allied with the Florida governor, sued one of its former scientists for stealing trade secrets. What was it really after?" "Rotten History" follows the interview. Check out Boyce's article here: https://newrepublic.com/article/182364/everglades-scientist-trial-ron-desantis-florida Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

"Accomplice Liability" Laws Imprison Victims for Abusers' Actions / Shannon Heffernan
Shannon Heffernan of the Marshall Project discusses her article, "Serving Time for Their Abusers’ Crimes: The Marshall Project found nearly 100 people who were punished for the actions of their abusers under little-known laws like “accomplice liability.” Check out Sharon's article here: https://www.themarshallproject.org/2024/06/13/abuse-domestic-violence-survivors-liability-prison Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

"The Night Won't End" in Gaza / Kavitha Chekuru
Recent guest Kavitha Chukuru of Al Jazeera returns to talk about her new Fault Lines documentary, 'The Night Won’t End," the product of Al Jazeera’s longstanding commitment to on-the-ground reporting inside Gaza. It was made possible by the work of brave journalists who worked for weeks in harrowing conditions to tell the story of three families who lived through horrific experiences and have been struggling to survive inside Gaza. Check out the documentary here: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/fault-lines/2024/6/21/the-night-wont-end-bidens-war-on-gaza-2 Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

The System Is Built on Insecurity / Astra Taylor
Astra Taylor on her new book from AK Press, "The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart." "Rotten History" follows the interview. Check out Astra's book here: https://www.akpress.org/the-age-of-insecurity.html Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

How Israel Became a Nuclear Power / Emma Claire Foley
Writer and filmmaker Emma Claire Foley on her Jacobin article, "How Israel Became a Nuclear Power." Check out Emma's article here: https://jacobin.com/2024/06/israel-nuclear-weapons-nonproliferation-iran-gaza Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

Ideologies of Climate Change / Tad DeLay
Tad DeLay returns to This Is Hell! to discuss his new book from Verso, "Future of Denial: The Ideologies of Climate Change." "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview. Check out Tad's book here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/2857-future-of-denial Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

Armed Struggle for Black Liberation in Southern California / Gerald Horne
Historian Gerald Horne returns to the show to discuss his new book, "Armed Struggle?: Panthers & Communists; Black Nationalists and Liberals in Southern California through the sixties and seventies." "Rotten History" follows the interview. Check out Gerald's book here: https://www.intpubnyc.com/browse/armed-struggle/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

Will the Revolution Be Funded? / Zac Chapman & Nairuti Shastry
Zac Chapman and Nairuti Shastry discuss their article at The Forge, "Will the Revolution Be Funded?," which is against big philanthropy and argues for community 'self-funding.' Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

Israel's Complicity in Guatemalan Genocide / Mary Jo McConahay
Mary Jo McConahay on her article at The Progressive, "Genocide Trial in Guatemala Brings Memories of Israel’s Role in the Killings." "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview. We also announce this week's Question from Hell! winner. Check out Mary's article here: https://progressive.org/latest/genocide-trial-in-guatemala-brings-memories-of-israels-role-in-the-killings-mcconahay-20240507/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

White Supremacy Hamstrings Liberal Climate Agenda / Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright on his recent Black Agenda Report piece, "If You Want to See White “Supremacy” at Work, Don’t go to a Trump Rally, Observe the Democrats’ Approach to Climate Change." "Rotten History" follows the interview. Check out Anthony's piece here: https://www.blackagendareport.com/if-you-want-see-white-supremacy-work-dont-go-trump-rally-observe-democrats-approach-climate-change Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

The Pentagon's Anti-Vax Campaign / Chris Bing
Chris Bing on his Reuters investigation, "The Pentagon ran a secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during the pandemic," co-authored with Joel Schectman. Check out Chris and Joel's article here: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covid-propaganda/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

US States and Municipalities Foot the Bill for Israel's War Machine / Lucy Randall & Clark Randall
Clark Randall, a past guest, and Lucy Randall who co-wrote The Nation article, "How Israel Bonds Put the Cost of the War in Gaza on US States and Municipalities: After October 7, Palm Beach County, Florida, bought $660 million in Israel bonds. A new lawsuit argues that it’s a bad deal for taxpayers." Clark is an independent journalist and PhD student at Brown University. His work considers questions of race, class, and finance in the US and internationally. Lucy is a freelance journalist and an immigration lawyer representing asylum seekers in New York City. Clark was on last August to talk about his Boston Review article, "Bond Villains: How a little-understood feature of urban finance—municipal bonds—fuels racial inequality." "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview. Check out their article here: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/israel-bonds-palm-beach-lawsuit/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

"From the River to the Sea" Means Freedom and Equality for All, Not Genocide of Jews / Stephen Zunes
Past guest Stephen Zunes returns to speak with us about his recent Truthout writing including, "Biden Continues to Provide Israel Billions for War Crimes," "Biden’s Response to Israel’s ICC Prosecution Is an Attack on International Law," and "Don’t Buy the Right-Wing Disinformation Campaign on “From the River to the Sea.” Stephen is a professor of Politics at the University of San Francisco, who is currently the Torgny Segerstedt Visiting Research professor at the Gothenburg University in Sweden. "Rotten History" follows the interview. Check out Stephen's articles here: https://truthout.org/articles/biden-continues-to-provide-israel-billions-for-war-crimes/ https://truthout.org/articles/bidens-response-to-israels-icc-prosecution-is-an-attack-on-international-law/ https://truthout.org/articles/dont-buy-the-right-wing-disinformation-campaign-on-from-the-river-to-the-sea/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

Architecture Firms Drive Ever-Larger County Jails / Amanda Abrams
Amanda Abrams on her story at The Intercept, "The Little-Known Reason Counties Keep Building Bigger Jails: Architecture Firms." "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview. Check out Amanda's article here: https://theintercept.com/2024/05/31/jail-construction-justice-architecture-firms/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

Insulin Profiteering Kills / Edward Ongweso Jr. & Athena Sofides
Edward Ongweso Jr and Athena Sofides on their Baffler essay, "The Insulin Empire: How profiteers pushed a lifesaving drug out of reach." "Rotten History" follows the interview. Check out Edward and Athena's article here: https://thebaffler.com/after-the-fact/the-insulin-empire-ongweso-jr-sofides Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

Israel's War on Hospitals Includes Imprisoning Doctors / Kavitha Chekuru
Kavitha Chekuru on her Intercept article, "Gaza's Stolen Healers: Hundreds of Palestinian Doctors Disappeared Into Israeli Detention." Check out Kavitha's article here: https://theintercept.com/2024/05/24/gaza-palestinian-doctors-hospital-detained-missing-disappeared/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

Ketamine / Dan Piepenbring
Dan Piepenbring on his Baffler article, "K-Pop: Our forefathers did dissociatives." Dan is the New Books columnist for Harper’s and the co-author, with Tom O’Neill, of CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties. He’s currently working on a book about ketamine. "Rotten History" and "The Moment of Truth" follow the interview. Check out Dan's article here: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/k-pop-piepenbring Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

Revolution Will Always Be Illegal Under International Law / Jake Romm & Dylan Saba
Dylan Saba and Jake Romm discuss their n+1 article, "Acts Harmful to the Enemy," on international humanitarian law criminalizing revolution. After the interview, we hear new installments of "Rotten History" and "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen. Check out Dylan and Jake's writing here: https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/acts-harmful-to-the-enemy/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition / Silky Shah
Silky Shah joins us to discuss her new book from Haymarket Books, "Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition." Check out Silky's book here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2213-unbuild-walls Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

Student Encampments Aren't a Danger to Jews. Crackdowns Are. / Hadas Thier
Hadas Thier returns to This Is Hell! to talk about her writing at The Nation on the Columbia protests, "The Student Encampments Aren’t a Danger to Jews. But the Crackdown Is." Hadas is author of, "A People’s Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics." Jeff Dorchen delivers "The Moment of Truth" after the interview. Check out Hadas' article here: https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/campus-encampment-police-crackdown-antisemitism-brutality/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

Democracy Is Bad for Israel / Murtaza Hussain
Murtaza Hussein returns to This Is Hell! to discuss his recent Intercept piece, "They Used to Say Arabs Can’t Have Democracy Because It’d Be Bad for Israel. Now the U.S. Can’t Have It Either." "Rotten History" follows the interview. Check out Murtaza's article here: https://theintercept.com/2024/05/08/american-democracy-israel-us-arabs/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

The Rise of the Tradwife / Sarah Bouillete & Astrid Lorange
Sarah Bouillete and Astrid Lorange join This Is Hell! to discuss what they call, "inexorable rise of the tradwife: the social media influencer who embodies an idealized aesthetic of wifehood" in their recent Verso piece, "From Scratch." After the interview, we check the mailbag. Check out Sarah and Astrid's piece here: https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/from-stratch Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

We Have Not Had Enough Campus Protest in the US / Erik Baker
Historian Erik Baker on his Boston Review article, "The Real Scandal of Campus Protest: It’s not that there has been too much student protest. It’s that there has not been much, much more of it." Jeff Dorchen joins us with "The Moment of Truth" after the interview. Check out Erik's piece here: https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-real-scandal-of-campus-protest/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

Columbia Professor Corrects Distorted Media Coverage of Campus Protests / Helen Benedict
Continuing our coverage of the campus protests for Palestinian freedom, Columbia Journalism Professor Helen Benedict joins us to discuss her Tom Dispatch piece, "The Distortion of Campus Protests over Gaza: How the Right Has Weaponized Antisemitism to Distract from Israel's War." "Rotten History" follows the interview. Check out Helen's piece here: https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-real-scandal-of-campus-protest/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

Weaponized Safety and Unhinged Police Crackdowns on American Campus Protests / Natasha Lennard
Natasha Lennard on "I’ve Covered Violent Crackdowns on Protests for 15 Years. This Police Overreaction Was Unhinged." Check out Natasha's article here: https://theintercept.com/2024/05/01/nyc-gaza-college-protests-police-outside-agitators/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

Musk, Greenwald, et al. Campaign Against Brazilian Democracy / Brian Mier
Correspondent Brian Mier on the Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting article, “‘I Knew They Had Fabricated a False Narrative’: An Interview with Estela Aranha on 'Twitter Files Brazil.'” Estela Aranha is former secretary of digital rights in the Brazilian Justice Ministry. "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview. We also announce this week's best answer to the Question from Hell! Check out Brian's interview with Estala Aranha here: https://fair.org/home/i-knew-they-had-fabricated-a-false-narrative/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

Anti-Palestinian Racism Is Today's Accepted Racism / Jess Ghannam
The Anti-Palestinian Racism Research Group's Jess Ghannam, who is co-author of the just-released "Anti-Palestinian Racism Survey Preliminary Report," joins This Is Hell! to discuss anti-Palestinian racism and its effects in the United States. Following the interview, we will hear some fresh "Rotten History" and a listener email. Check out the report here: https://medium.com/@aprresearchgroup/anti-palestinian-racism-survey-preliminary-report-april-2024-11cfed327d85 Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

Palestine Speaks for Everyone / Jodi Dean
Jodi Dean on her Verso column, "Palestine Speaks for Everyone." Following the interview, we hear feedback from listeners like you. Check out Jodi's column here: https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/palestine-speaks-for-everyone Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

Defunding UNRWA: From Containment to Destruction / Laura Robson
Laura Robson on her article at The Baffler Magazine, "Assistance as Containment; A historical take on defunding the UNRWA." Plus a Moment of Truth from Jeffrey Dorchen. Check out Laura's article here: https://thebaffler.com/latest/assistance-as-containment-robson Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

New Robber Barons Prevent Using Tech for the Common Good / Loretta Napoleoni
Loretta Napoleoni returns to discuss her new book, “Technocapitalism: The Rise of the New Robber Barons and the Fight for the Common Good.” "Rotten History" follows the interview. Check out Loretta's book here: https://www.sevenstories.com/books/4601-technocapitalism Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

Taking Down Fatphobia / Kate Manne
Kate Manne returns to talk about her book, “Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia.” Check out Kate's book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/722318/unshrinking-by-kate-manne/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

India-Israel Worker Deal Looks like Indentured Servitude / Michelle Buckley & Paula Chakravartty
We wrap up the week with geographer Michelle Buckley and media scholar Paula Chakravartty co-wrote the Boston Review article, "Labor and the Bibi-Modi 'Bromance': The Israel-India worker deal resembles British indenture." "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview. Check out Michelle and Paula's article here: https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/labor-and-the-bibi-modi-bromance/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

The US South's Elites Have Kept the Region Poor and Underdeveloped / Keri Leigh Merritt
Keri Leigh Merritt returns to discuss her Aeon article, "The southern gap: In the American South, an oligarchy of planters enriched itself through slavery. Pervasive underdevelopment is their legacy." "Rotten History" follows the interview. Check out Keri's article here: https://aeon.co/essays/capitalism-and-underdevelopment-in-the-american-south Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

Accenture Is Taking Over Police Reform in LA County / Alec Karakatsanis & Hamid Khan
This Is Hell! returns from Spring Break! Alec Karakatsanis and Hamid Khan join Chuck to discuss consulting and biometrics giant Accenture's quiet takeover of police reform in Los Angeles County, California. Check out Akela Lacy's article on that process: https://theintercept.com/2024/03/12/los-angeles-jail-accenture-measure-j/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

The Cloud is Material and Impacts the Environment / Steven Gonzalez Monserrate
MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society's Cloud Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate on his article, "The Cloud Is Material: On the Environmental Impacts of Computation and Data Storage." "Rotten History" and some correspondence from listeners follow the interview. Check out Steven's article here: https://sts-program.mit.edu/news/mit-serc-case-study-the-cloud-is-material-on-the-environmental-impacts-of-computation-and-data-storage-by-steven-gonzalez-monserrate-mit-hasts-graduate-student/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

Judicial Supremacy in the US / Lisa Heinzerling
Lisa Heinzerling on her Boston Review article, “The Judicial War on Government: The Supreme Court’s latest bid to control agencies like the EPA—and Congress itself." Check out Lisa's article here: https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-judicial-war-on-government/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

Hamas' Journey from Charitable Org to National Liberation Force / Assaf Kfoury
We wrap up the week with Assaf Kfoury who wrote the Cosmonaut article, "Hamas From Candidate Enforcer to Implacable Foe." Check out Assaf's article here: https://cosmonautmag.com/2024/03/hamas-from-candidate-enforcer-to-implacable-foe/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

Lederhosen Nazis, "Dancing Queen," and other Vibes from CPAC 2024 / Gaby Del Valle
Gaby Del Valle on The Baffler Magazine article, “Lost at CPAC: The paranoid style in conservative politics.” "Rotten History" follows the interview. Check out Gaby's article here: https://thebaffler.com/latest/lost-at-cpac-del-valle Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell