This Is Hell!

This Is Hell!
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Feb 23, 2022 • 1h 25min

Race and space in America / Elijah Anderson

Sociologist Elijah Anderson on his book "Black in White Space: The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life" from University of Chicago Press. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo119245209.html
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Feb 10, 2022 • 1h 24min

Fire and the modern world / Daniel Immerwahr

Historian Daniel Immerwahr on his Guardian article "‘A deranged pyroscape’: how fires across the world have grown weirder" and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen bites the handbook that feeds. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/03/a-deranged-pyroscape-how-fires-across-the-world-have-grown-weirder
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Feb 8, 2022 • 1h 21min

Maritime insurers and the US founding / Hannah Farber

Historian Hannah Farber on her book "Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding" from the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press. https://uncpress.org/book/9781469663630/underwriters-of-the-united-states/
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Feb 7, 2022 • 1h 9min

Dirty energy politics in Ohio / Nathanael Johnson

Writer Nathanael Johnson on his report "How a $60 million bribery scandal helped Ohio pass the ‘worst energy policy in the country’" for Grist. https://grist.org/politics/how-a-60-million-bribery-scandal-helped-ohio-pass-the-worst-energy-policy-in-the-country/
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Feb 3, 2022 • 1h 25min

The state, the unhoused and performative productivity / Deyanira Nevárez Martínez

Urban planning scholar Deyanira Nevárez Martínez on her paper "Homelessness in Southern California: Street-Level Encounters with the State and the Structural Violence of Performative Productivity" for Radical Housing Journal, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen takes sides in the Werewolf vs Vampire war. https://radicalhousingjournal.org/2021/homelessness-in-southern-california/
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Feb 1, 2022 • 1h 22min

Crop diversity and agricultural crisis / Helen Anne Curry

Historian Helen Anne Curry on her book "Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction" from University of California Press. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520307698/endangered-maize
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Jan 31, 2022 • 1h 18min

Neoliberalism and the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally / Catherine McNicol Stock

Historian Catherine McNicol Stock on her article “Is the rally really worth it?” The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and the Costs of Neoliberalism" for OSU Origins. https://origins.osu.edu/index.php/read/south-dakota-sturgis-motorcycle-rally-neoliberalism
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Jan 27, 2022 • 1h 22min

Vaccine apartheid politics / Kevin Klyman

Kevin Klyman on his article "Vaccine Apartheid Has Reinforced US Empire" for Jacobin, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen continues to try to spread positivity. https://www.jacobinmag.com/2022/01/vaccine-apartheid-us-empire-diplomacy-china-cold-war
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Jan 26, 2022 • 1h 28min

Protecting rainforest protectors / Ashwin Ravikumar

Environmental studies scholar Ashwin Ravikumar on his article "To Save the Rainforests, Provide Healthcare, Education and Services for Those Who Protect Them" for The Trouble. https://www.the-trouble.com/content/2022/1/17/to-save-the-rainforests-provide-healthcare-education-and-services-for-those-who-protect-them
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Jan 24, 2022 • 1h 17min

When the rich take space / Corey Pein

Writer Corey Pein on his article "Dawn of the Space Lords" for The Baffler. https://thebaffler.com/salvos/dawn-of-the-space-lords-pein

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