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Oct 16, 2024 • 57min
Abolish Rent / Tracy Rosenthal
Tracy Rosenthal returns to discuss her new book, "Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis" from Haymarket Books.
Check out Tracy's book here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2443-abolish-rent
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Oct 16, 2024 • 1h 37min
Abolish Rent / Tracy Rosenthal
Tracy Rosenthal returns to discuss her new book, "Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis" from Haymarket Books. "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.
Check out Tracy's book here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2443-abolish-rent
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Oct 16, 2024 • 1h 28min
A "Pride Paradox" Fuels Far-Right Politics in Appalachia / Arlie Hochschild
National Book Award finalist Arlie Russell Hochschild returns to This is Hell! to speak with us about her new book, "Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right." "Rotten History" from Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview
Check out Arlie's new book: https://thenewpress.com/books/stolen-pride
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Oct 9, 2024 • 1h 38min
Tyrannical Couty Sheriffs in the United States Threaten Democracy / Jessica Pishko
Journalist and lawyer Jessica Pishko joins us to discuss her new book, "The Highest Law in the Land: How the Unchecked Power of Sheriffs Threatens Democracy." "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.
Check out Jessica's book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/707263/the-highest-law-in-the-land-by-jessica-pishko/
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Oct 8, 2024 • 1h 33min
We Have Never Been Woke / Musa al-Gharbi
Sociologist Musa al-Gharbi returns to discuss his new book, "We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite," published just today by Princeton University Press. "Rotten History" by Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview.
Check out Musa's book here: https://musaalgharbi.com/we-have-never-been-woke-available-now/
Musa is currently on a book tour. Check out the dates here: https://musaalgharbi.com/book-tour-we-have-never-been-woke/
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Oct 2, 2024 • 1h 50min
The New Apostolic Reformation Wages Spiritual Warfare on Demon-crats / Matthew Taylor
Matthew D. Taylor joins us to discuss his book, "The Violent Take It by Force: The Christian Movement That Is Threatening Our Democracy," published just yesterday by Broadleaf Books. Jeff Dorchen joins us after the interview to deliver a new segment of "The Moment of Truth."
Check out Matthew's book here: https://www.broadleafbooks.com/store/product/9781506497785/The-Violent-Take-It-by-Force
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Oct 2, 2024 • 1h 45min
Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy inside the Catholic Church / Gareth Gore
Gareth Gore on his book, "Opus: The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy inside the Catholic Church," published just today by Simon and Schuster. "Rotten History" by Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview.
Check out Gareth's book here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Opus/Gareth-Gore/9781668016145
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Sep 25, 2024 • 2h 6min
Staten Island's Politics of Resentment / Dennis Hogan
We have a treat for all you New Yorkers out there. Writer, academic, organizer, and fourth-generation Staten Islander Dennis Hogan joins us to discuss his recent article from The Baffler, "I Got Mine: Staten Island's Politics of Resentment." "Rotten History" by Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview, as does an all-new "Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen live from another borough of New York.
Check out Dennis's article here: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/i-got-mine-hogan
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Sep 18, 2024 • 1h 16min
Gaza Genocide Divides the Organization of American States / Francesca Emanuele
Center for Economic and Policy Research's Francesca Emanuele on her article, "Gaza Is Causing Diplomatic Rifts in the Western Hemisphere: The Organization of American States’ pro-Israel stance may erode its legitimacy in the region," at Foreign Policy.
Check out Francesca's article here: https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/09/12/israel-palestine-gaza-war-oas-latin-america-almagro-us-far-right/
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Sep 18, 2024 • 1h 43min
A Forceful History of Black Resistance / Kellie Carter Jackson
Kellie Carter-Jackson returns to discuss her new book, "We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance" (Seal Press).
"Rotten History" by Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview.
Check out Kellie's book here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/kellie-carter-jackson/we-refuse/9781541602908/?lens=seal-press
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