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This Is Hell!

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AUG 13, 2024

Far-Right, Anti-Immigration Riots in the UK / Daniel Trilling

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

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1 hr 44 min

AUG 7, 2024

Listener Picks: Peter Thiel's Dream of Capitalism without Democracy / Quinn Slobodian

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

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1 hr 9 min

AUG 7, 2024

Listener Picks: What Direction for the French Left? / Jacob Hamburger

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

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56 min

AUG 5, 2024

Listener Picks: Palestinian Liberation and Separating Vengeance from Justice / Arielle Angel

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

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1 hr 12 min

JUL 31, 2024

Listener Picks: Following the Rules to the Heart of Bureaucracy / David Graeber

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

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1 hr 2 min

JUL 30, 2024

Listener Picks: Disability Is Everyone's Problem / Laura Mauldin

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

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1 hr 11 min