This Is Hell!

This Is Hell!
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Oct 11, 2021 • 1h 20min

Prison reform, carceral expansion / Kay Whitlock + Nancy A. Heitzeg

Kay Whitlock and Nancy A. Heitzeg on their book "Carceral Con: The Deceptive Terrain of Criminal Justice Reform" from University of California Press. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520343474/carceral-con
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Oct 6, 2021 • 1h 27min

Inside the Pandora Papers / Michael Hudson

Journalist Michael Hudson on the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists's massive Pandora Papers investigation, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen identifies a heinous example of "Missing White Woman Syndrome Derangement Syndrome." https://www.icij.org/investigations/pandora-papers/
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Oct 5, 2021 • 1h 15min

The state and the autonomous zone / Stellan Vinthagen

Sociologist Stellan Vinthagen on his article "The ZAD: between utopian radicalism and negotiated pragmatism," co-written with Fareen Parvez for ROAR Magazine. https://roarmag.org/essays/zad-radicalism-pragmatism/
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Oct 4, 2021 • 1h 24min

Pandemic food system politics in North Africa / Sylvia Kay + Hamza Hamouchene

Sylvia Kay and Hamza Hamouchene on the report "Towards a Just Recovery from the Covid-19 Crisis: The urgent struggle for food sovereignty in North Africa" for Transnational Institute. https://www.tni.org/en/publication/towards-a-just-recovery-from-the-covid-19-crisis
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Sep 23, 2021 • 1h 23min

The financialized university disaster / Kelly Grotke

Kelly Grotke on her article "The Failure of Financialized Higher Ed" for The American Prospect, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen must look back on a piece of theater he never saw. https://prospect.org/education/failure-of-financialized-higher-ed/
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Sep 21, 2021 • 1h 15min

Brutality, capitalism, revenge / Max Haiven

Writer Max Haiven on his book "Revenge Capitalism: The Ghosts of Empire, the Demons of Capital, & the Settling of Unpayable Debts" from Pluto Press. http://www.plutobooks.com/9780745340562/revenge-capitalism/
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Sep 20, 2021 • 1h 20min

Pearls for empire / Molly A. Warsh

Historian Molly A. Warsh on her book "American Baroque: Pearls and the Nature of Empire, 1492-1700" from UNC Press. https://uncpress.org/book/9781469666259/american-baroque/
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Sep 15, 2021 • 1h 17min

Yukon salmon collapse / Zachariah Hughes

Journalist Zachariah Hughes on his three-part series "The Last Wild Kings: A World Without Salmon?" for Anchorage Daily News and the Pulitzer Center. https://pulitzercenter.org/projects/last-wild-kings-world-without-salmon
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Sep 14, 2021 • 1h 18min

Faith and work on the slaughterhouse floor / Kristy Nabhan-Warren

Kristy Nabhan-Warren on her book "Meatpacking America: How Migration, Work, and Faith Unite and Divide the Heartland" from UNC Press. https://uncpress.org/book/9781469663494/meatpacking-america/
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Sep 13, 2021 • 1h 21min

Neoliberal jihad / Suzanne Schneider

Historian Suzanne Schneider on her book "The Apocalypse and the End of History: Modern Jihad and the Crisis of Liberalism" from Verso Books. https://www.versobooks.com/authors/2565-suzanne-schneider

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