This is Hell!
Summary: Long-form interviews with writers, thinkers and workers from around the world and across the spectrum of experience.
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Podcasts:
Journalist Rachel Aspden explains how the Arab Spring came to Egypt, and why it failed. Rachel is author of Generation Revolution: On the Front Line Between Tradition and Change in the Middle East from Other Press. PLUS: Chuck's feminist gimmick? / Rotten History
Economist Dean Baker accounts for the economics of global trade in the Trump era. / Journalist Kevin Davis discusses the impact of neuroscience in the criminal justice system. / In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen awakens to reality, or something like it.
Historian Osamah Khalil examines the illusions America sees when it looks to the Middle East. Osamah is author of "Americaâs Dream Palace: Middle East Expertise and the Rise of the National Security State" from Harvard University Press. PLUS: Question From Hell!
Art historian Harriet Senie explores America's maintenance of national myths through war memorials. Harriet is author of "Memorials to Shattered Myths: Vietnam to 9/11" from Oxford University Press. PLUS: Rotten History
Artist Raoul Martinez looks beyond the limits of freedom to a future of equality and liberation. PLUS: Question From Hell!
Live from Stockholm, Mikael Mikaelsson outlines the government-industry path to green energy. / Live from Bucharest, Florin Poenaru examines Romania's massive, contradictory protest movement.
Sociologist Melinda Cooper explains how neoliberalism transformed the politics of the family. PLUS: Rotten History
Writer Joseph Daher explores the contemporary political-economy of Hezbollah. / In a Moment of Truth, The current international trade situation pushes Jeff Dorchen over the borderline.
Author Nato Thompson explains how art became a weapon aimed at the public. Nato is author of "Culture as Weapon: The Art of Influence in Everyday Life" from Melville House.
Author Pankaj Mishra examines the hidden history of anger across the modern world. Pankaj is author of "Age of Anger: A History of the Present" from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. PLUS: Chuck on violence
Mathematician Paul-Olivier Dehaye profiles the use of psychometrics in political campaigns. Paul posted the recent Medium article "The (dis)information mercenaries now controlling Trumpâs databases." /Â In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen mangles a thermodynamic theory of evolution.
Legal scholar Marjorie Cohn reviews the dangerous record of Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch. Marjorie wrote the article Trump's Choice of Gorsuch Endangers Civil, Human and Environmental Rights for Truthout. / Immigration researcher Karina Moreno finds a neoliberal consensus behind the border wall. Karina wrote the article The Private Deportation Machine for Jacobin. PLUS: Question From Hell!
Live from Standing Rock, Dr. Sarah Jumping Eagle reports on DAPL resistance in the Trump era. Sarah is a pediatrician and water protector, we've spoken to her twice in 2016. / Journalist Michelle Chen examines Obama's mostly symbolic legacy on labor and trade. Michelle wrote the Labor and Trade section of Jacobin's feature Assessing Obama. PLUS: Listener Mail
Economist Geoff Mann outlines the history of Keynesianism's attempts to save capital from capitalism. PLUS: Chuck on values, Rotten History
Editor Vyvian Raoul outlines strategies for reclaiming the public space from advertising's visual pollution. / In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen defines the Schlock Doctrine. PLUS: Question from Hell!
