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:
This Is Hell! listener favorite interviews from 2016. Featuring: Mary Mellor, Yanis Varoufakis, Arun Kundnani, Henry Giroux, Sarah Jaffe and Peter Frase.
The Hopleaf's Michael Roper reports from what might be peak craft beer in America. / In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen fights his way back to the origins of conflict.
Writer Viet Thanh Nguyen examines the limitations of memory and the persistence of war. Viet is author of the book Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War from Harvard University Press. PLUS: Question from Hell!
Live from Switzerland, Ed Sutton talks about coming home in an age of migration. / Reporter Dan Denvir explains how establishment centrists moved immigration policy to the right.
Writer Andrew Cockburn explains who profits from inflating the Russian threat. Andrew wrote the article The New Red Scare in the December issue of Harper's.
Author Ashley Dawson previews the Trump administration's environmental horror show. / In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen drops a few more good reasons to be a bad citizen.
Journalist Sarah Jaffe looks to the radicalizing possibilities of protest in the Trump era. / Live from Germany, Manuel Carrasco Molina reports on anti-coal actions deep in the Hambach Forest.
Activist Azzurra Crispino updates us on repression and resistance during the US prison labor strike. / Naked Capitalism's Yves Smith calls in from the wrong side of the fake news scare.
Historian James Livingston explains why work isn't working for anyone but the rich. James is the author of the new book No More Work: Why Full Employment Is a Bad Idea from UNC Press and the Aeon essay Fuck Work. PLUS: Rotten History
Jacobin editor Seth Ackerman sketches the blueprints for a working class political party. / Jeff Dorchen hearkens back to the days when dressing a pig up as the Kaiser was a big deal.
Author Annie McClanahan explores debt's influence on 21st century American culture.
Kate Shea Baird and Steve Hughes tour the radical politics of Spain's rebel cities. / Sarah Jumping Eagle reports from the frontlines of the #NoDAPL fight at Standing Rock.
Historian Heather Ann Thompson revisits the Attica prison uprising of 1971. PLUS: Rotten History and Chuck's Favorite Books of 2016
Doug Henwood and Liza Featherstone explain what went wrong with Candidate Hillary. PLUS: Libation of the Week
Writer Ruth Whippman surveys America's maddening happiness-industrial complex. Ruth is author of "America the Anxious: How Our Pursuit of Happiness Is Creating a Nation of Nervous Wrecks" from St. Martin's Press.
