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The Best of 2023 continues with our April interview with Malcolm Harris on his Little, Brown and Company book, "Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World." After the interview, we read your first answers to 2024's first Question from Hell and the Worst of Rotten History from Renaldo Migaldi. Check out Malcolm's book here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/malcolm-harris/palo-alto/9780316592031/?lens=little-brown Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

The Best of 2023 continues with writer, professor and musician Sheila Liming on her recently published book, "Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time." Check out Sheila's book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717263/hanging-out-by-sheila-liming/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

The best of 2023 continues with Miliaku Nwabueze on her May 5 Scalawag essay, "How to Build the End of the World: In Defense of the Chaotic Protester." Check out Miliaku's article here: https://scalawagmagazine.org/2023/05/black-radical-tradition-cop-city/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

The Best of 2023 continues with our April 10th interview with Rasha Al Aqeedi about her New Lines Magazine article, "Living — and Reliving — the US Invasion of Iraq." Check out Rasha's article here: https://newlinesmag.com/first-person/living-and-reliving-the-us-invasion-of-iraq/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

The Best of 2023 continues! M.E. O’Brien joins us in Hell to discuss her new book "Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care" published by Pluto Press. Check out M.E.'s book here: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745343846/family-abolition/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

Continuing the Best of 2023 series, distinguished anthropologist Alex Hinton joins Chuck to discuss his Sapiens article, "Two Myths Fueling the Conservative Right's Dangerous Transphobia." The discussion includes Alex's insights from the most recent CPAC. This interview originally aired on June 21st. After the interview, we have both a new Rotten History and a new Moment of Truth. Alex is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University, Director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, and UNESCO Chair on Genocide Prevention. Check out Alex's article here: https://www.sapiens.org/culture/transphobia-myths/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

The Best of 2023 continues with Matt Kennard and Claire Provost on their Bloomsbury book, "Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy." This interview originally aired on May 16th. Check out "Silent Coup" here: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/silent-coup-9781350269989/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell

The Best of 2023 continues with historian Jo Guldi on her Boston Review article, "The Earth for Man," on land redistribution which is adapted from her Yale University Press book, "The Long Land War: The Global Struggle for Occupancy Rights." Following the interview, we read the rest of your answers to the Question from Hell and select our favorite of the week and Sebastian Wuepper delivers another timely Past Inside the Present. Check out Jo's article here: https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-earth-for-man/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell

The Best of 2023 continues with our October interview with Alan Guebert who had just posted the The Baffler Magazine article, “Farmed Out: American agriculture is about business, not food.” Plus, a Moment of Truth with Jeffrey Dorchen and your answers to the week's Question from Hell! Check out Alan's article here: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/farmed-out-guebert Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

Jewish Currents editor-in-chief Arielle Angel joins This Is Hell! to discuss her essay on the Palestinian liberation, "'We Cannot Cross Until We Carry Each Other.'" After the interview, the we read the first batch of your answers to the Question from Hell, followed by Rotten History. 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: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell