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Jun 25, 2025 • 1h 48min
Resisting "Cop City" in America's Most Surveilled, Unequal City / Micah Herskind
Micah Herskind returns to This Is Hell! to discuss his contribution to the new edited volume, "No Cop City, No Cop World: Lessons from the Movement" from Haymarket Books. After the interview, Jeff Dorchen delivers a live, in-studio "Moment of Truth."
Check out Micah's book here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2541-no-cop-city-no-cop-world
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Jun 18, 2025 • 1h 38min
The Right's War on Gender is Also a War on Government / Paisley Currah
Paisley Currah joins us to discuss his New Yorker piece, "Donald Trump's War on Gender Is Also a War on Government." "Rotten History" by Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview.
Check out Paisley's article here: https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/donald-trumps-war-on-gender-is-also-a-war-on-government
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Jun 17, 2025 • 1h 35min
Fake Work / Leigh Claire La Berge
Leigh Claire La Berge joins us to discuss her new book published today by Haymarket, "Fake Work: How I Began to Suspect Capitalism is a Joke." "Rotten History" by Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview.
Check out Leigh's book here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2534-fake-work
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Jun 11, 2025 • 1h 29min
Inventing "Invasion" / Molly Redden
ProPublica's Molly Redden joins us to discuss her article, "The “Invasion” Invention: The Far Right’s Long Legal Battle to Make Immigrants the Enemy." A new "Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.
Check out Molly's article here: https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-administration-immigration-invasion-rhetoric-courts
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Jun 6, 2025 • 1h 32min
Atlanta's Cop City Brought to You by Southern Capital / Mariah Parker
Mariah Parker joins us to discuss her chapter in the new co-authored book, "No Cop City, No Cop World: Lessons from the Movement." A classic "Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.
Check out Mariah's new book here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/events/717-no-cop-city-no-cop-world
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May 30, 2025 • 1h 31min
Recognizing AI Hype and How People Can Fight Back / Emily Bender and Alex Hanna
Dr. Emily M. Bender and Dr. Alex Hanna come on the show to talk about their new book “The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want” published but LitHub. The book tackles the pitfalls of AI and why it’s so crucial to understand the capitalist greed that is manipulating AI behind the scenes. https://thecon.ai/
A new installment of “This Week In Rotten History” from Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview.
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May 21, 2025 • 1h 44min
Subsidizing Crypto in the Climate Crisis / Candice Bernd
Candice Bernd returns to This Is Hell! to discuss her recent writing at The American Prospect, "The Crypto Racket." After the interview, we hear a classic "Moment of Truth" from Jeff Dorchen.
Check out Candice's article here: https://prospect.org/power/2025-05-09-crypto-racket-texas-bitcoin-mining/

May 20, 2025 • 1h 44min
Overbroad Antisemitism Definitions Discipline the Jewish Diaspora / Lihi Yona & Itamar Mann
Lihi Yona and Itamar Mann join us to discuss their recent UCLA Law Review piece, "Defending Jews From the Definition of Antisemitism." A special 10th anniversary installment of "This Week in Rotten History" from Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview.
Check out Lihi and Itamar's piece here: https://www.uclalawreview.org/defending-jews-from-the-definition-of-antisemitism/
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May 15, 2025 • 1h 51min
Interracial Labor Solidarity in the United States / Cedric de Leon
Sociologist Cedric de Leon joins us to discuss his new book, "Freedom Train: Black Politics and the Story of Interracial Labor Solidarity" from University of California Press. "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.
Check out Cedric's book here: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/freedom-train/paper
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May 12, 2025 • 1h 42min
Enemy Feminisms / Sophie Lewis
Sophie Lewis returns to This Is Hell! to discuss her new book, "Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation" from Haymarket Books. "This Week in Rotten History" from Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview.
Check out Sophie's book here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2440-enemy-feminisms
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