Cultural Resistance to Data World and Managed Despair / Curtis White
Curtis White returns to discuss his new book, "On Resistance: A Manifesto," available now from Random House: https://www.penguinrandomhouse....
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Right-Wing American Misunderstandings About South Africa / Eve Fairbanks
Eve Fairbanks joins us to discuss her essay, “The Myth of the Police State: No one, not even the supposed beneficiaries, is protected.” The...
Chuck Opens a Bloated Mailbag / The Greatest Audience in Hell & Chuck Mertz
Thanks to scheduling mishaps and our limited competence, you will not hear longform interview Hell with a guest today. Instead, you will hea...
Worker Resistance in Big Tech / JS Tan & Clarissa Redwine
JS Tan and Clarissa Redwine join us to discuss their new book from Haymarket Books, "Against Tech Oligarchy Worker Resistance in the World’s...
An Indicted Minneapolis 15 Defendant Speaks Out / Cal Robinet
Union electrician and activist Cal Robinet, one of the Minneapolis 15 defendants facing charges after ICE's Operation Metro Surge in that ci...
Building Socialism Requires Dismantling Empire / Sudip Bhattacharya
Sudip Bhattacharya returns to discuss his recent writing, including "There is No Socialism Without the End of U.S. Empire" at Socialist Foru...
Another Brazilian Coup Attempt Underway / Brian Mier
Brian Mier returns to discuss the upcoming Brazilian election and the prospects for another right-wing coup. Check out Brian's Substack, "De...
Breaking ICE / Sonali Kolhatkar
Sonali Kolhatkar returns to discuss her new book, "Breaking ICE: Community Defense against State Terror and MAGA Fascism," just published by...
15 Million Excess Deaths from US For-Profit Health Insurance / Nick Smolek
Ill Will Editions editor Nick Smolek joins us to discuss the forthcoming book, "Depose: Luigi Mangione, the Right to Health, and the Unfinis...
The Bail Trap / Robin Steinberg & Robin Camilo
Robin Steinberg and Camilo Ramirez return to discuss their new book, "The Bail Trap: A Scandal at the Heart of American Justice" from The Ne...
The Long Fight Against Equality in the United States / Kim Phillips-Fein
Historian Kim Phillips-Fein returns to discuss her new book, "Country of Lords: Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the L...
"Genocidal Enjoymment" on Display in IDF Social Media from Gaza / Raúl Pérez
Paúl Pérez returns to discuss his recent British Sociological Association article, co-authored with Charles Thorpe, "Genocidal Enjoyment: On...
Israel's $1 Billion Hasbara Influence Machine since October 7th / Nick Cleveland-Stout
Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft Research fellow Nick Cleveland-Stout discusses his recent report, "The Eighth Front: Inside Isra...
Imperialist Realism / Daniel Bessner
Historian and foreign policy analysis Daniel Bessner joins us to discuss his new book, "Imperialist Realism: Politics and Culture at the End...
Trump's War on Boats / Adam Isacson & John Walsh
Washington Office on Latin America directors Adam Isacson and John Walsh join us to discuss their new report from WOLA, "Killing Spree: Extr...
Sponsoring The Genocide In Palestine / Fintan Drury
Fintan Drury joins This Is Hell! to talk about his new book “Genocide: Sponsoring the Destruction of Palestine”, published by the Irish Acad...
The Winners And Losers In The Future Of Drugs / Kojo Karam
Kojo Koram joins This Is Hell! to talk about his new book "The Next Fix: The Winners and Losers in the Future of Drugs”, published by Verso...
White Supremacy At The US Border / John Washington
John Washington returns to This Is Hell! to talk about his new book “The Case For Open Borders” published by Haymarket Books. (https://www.h...
Canada and its Asshole Neighbor + Chuck Gets Interviewed / Dónal Gill
Dónal Gill discusses the view of the United States from Canada in the age of MAGA. His essay appears in the new edited volume by The Dial, "...
How To Think About AI Before It’s Too Late / Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow returns to This Is Hell! to talk about his new book “The Reverse Centaur’s Guide To Life After AI - How To Think About Artific...