This Is Hell!

Mar 04 2025 500 ep. 81 mins 11.9k

This Is Hell! Podcast artwork

Manufacturing Dissent since 1996

Copy RSS

Subscribe on Podcast Addict

Worker-to-Worker Organizing / Eric Blanc

Mar 04 2025 111 mins

Labor scholar Eric Blanc joins us to discuss his new book published just today by the University of California Press titled, "We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big." "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview. Check out Eric's book here: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/we-are-the-union/paper Help keep This Is Hell

The Dark History of American Orphanhood / Kristen Martin

Mar 01 2025 95 mins

Journalist and cultural critic Kristen Martin joins “This Is Hell!” to talk about her new book, "The Sun Won’t Come Out Tomorrow: The Dark History of American Orphanhood”, published by the Bold Type Books. Check out Kristen’s book here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/kristen-martin/the-sun-wont-come-out-tomorrow/9781645030348/?lens=bold-type-books Visit Kriste

Hitler's Takeover Was Completely Constitutional / Timothy Ryback

Feb 25 2025 112 mins

Historian Timothy W. Ryback joins us to discuss his Atlantic essays, "How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days: He used the constitution to shatter the constitution," "The Oligarchs Who Came to Regret Supporting Hitler They helped him in pursuit of profit. Many ended up in concentration camps," and, "‘Herr Hitler, Do You Really Believe Me Capable of Such a Dirty Trick?’ The

A New Political Ecology Is Needed to Change the World / Erald Kolasi

Feb 21 2025 96 mins

Physicist Erald Kolasi returns to “This Is Hell!” to talk about his new book, "The Physics of Capitalism: How a New Political Ecology Can Change the World”, published by the Monthly Review. Check out Erald’s book here: https://monthlyreview.org/product/the-physics-of-capitalism-how-a-new-political-ecology-can-change-the-world/ Keep TiH! free and completely listener suppor

Chuck has Covid pt. 2: Technoauthoritarian Frontiers / Quinn Slobodian & Greg Grandin

Feb 20 2025 116 mins

Chuck is out of action this week COVID, so we are featuring past interviews with upcoming guests who all have new books coming out on the days we are scheduled to interview them in upcoming weeks. Today's episode features two listener-favorite historians. First up is Quinn Slobodian on his 2023 book "Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy."

Chuck has Covid pt. 1: Socialist Futures / Jodi Dean & Erald Kolasi

Feb 18 2025 109 mins

Chuck is out of action this week COVID, so we are featuring past interviews with upcoming guests who all have new books coming out on the days we are scheduled to interview them in upcoming weeks. Today's episode features two guests whose work imagine a more emancipatory, dignified, sustainable future should socialist imperatives govern the future of human development. First up is

Law Enforcement Needs to Get Serious About the Far Right / Mike German

Feb 10 2025 104 mins

Mike German, co-author with Beth Zasloff of the new book, "Policing White Supremacy: The Enemy Within," returns to This is Hell! Mike is a former FBI agent who went undercover in the far right whtie supremacsit movement and has appeared on the show a couple of times. "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview. Check out Mike's book here: https://thenewpress.com/

How Technofacism is Rooted in Silicon Valley / Becca Lewis

Feb 09 2025 88 mins

Disinformation and far-right digital media scholar Becca Lewis, who posted The Guardian article, “‘Headed for technofascism’: the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley." Check out Becca Lewis new Guardian piece at this link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2025/jan/29/silicon-valley-rightwing-technofascism?fbclid=IwY2xjawIYf-tleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHc2nPsngc-4Bdt

How Thiel, Musk, and Other Tech Billionaires Bought the Liberal Media / Eoin Higgins

Feb 04 2025 105 mins

Journalist and historian Eoin Higgins, author of the new book, "Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left." "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview. Check out Eoin's book here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/eoin-higgins/owned/9781645030461/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus

What Different Parts of the World Has That the US Lacks / Natasha Hakimi Zapata

Jan 31 2025 89 mins

Award-winning journalist Natasha Hakimi Zapata joins us to discuss her new book, “Another World Is Possible: Lessons For America From Around The Globe”, published by The New Press. Her articles can be found be found in In These TImes, The Nation, and The New York Times. Purchase the book at this link: https://thenewpress.com/books/another-world-possible Natasha Hakimi Zapata�