This Is Hell!

Dec 10 2024 500 ep. 80 mins 11.9k
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This is Hell is four hours of completely uninterrupted unedited blah blah blah which airs every Saturday morning in Chicago. Troublemakers, muckrakers, whistleblowers, host Chuck Mertz does in-depth interviews with rabble of all sorts. Noam Chomsky has called This is Hell "a voice of sanity on talk radio." After you listen, you'll know why we think Noam's gone insane.

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Hindu Supremacy on College Campuses and the Diaspora / Nevin Kallepalli

Dec 10 2024 103 mins  
Nevin Kallepalli joins us to discuss his writing at the Baffler, “Hindutva University: Meet the group spreading Hindu supremacist propaganda on college campuses”. “Moment of Truth” from Jeff Dorchen will follow the interview. Check out Nevin’s article here: https://thebaffler.com/latest/university-of-hindutva-kallepalli Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener suppor

The Persistence of the US Nuclear Deterrence Policy / Elaine Scarry

Dec 09 2024 94 mins  
Elaine Scarry joins us to discuss her writing at the Boston Review, “The Extortionist Doctrine : On the persistence of U.S. nuclear deterrence policy.’” "Rotten History" from Renaldo Migaldi follow the interview. Check out Elaine’s article here: https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-extortionists-doctrine/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access

Big Oil's Climate Change Cover-Up Began in the 1950s / Rebecca John

Dec 04 2024 127 mins  
Rebecca John joins us to discuss her writing at DeSmog, "Revealed: Big Oil Told 70 Years Ago That Fossil Fuel Emissions Could Impact ‘Civilization.’" "Rotten History" from Renaldo Migaldi and "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follow the interview. Check out Rebecca's article here: https://www.desmog.com/2024/11/12/revealed-big-oil-told-70-years-ago-that-fossil-fuel-emiss

Liberalism Will Cost Us The Earth / Alberto Toscano

Nov 26 2024 104 mins  
Alberto Toscano joins us to discuss his In These TImes piece, "Liberalism Will Cost Us the Earth - Trump’s recoronation is another symptom of centrism’s global bankruptcy.." Check out Alberto's article here: https://inthesetimes.com/article/liberalism-will-cost-us-the-earth?fbclid=IwY2xjawGzEB1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHSSXdh3TbVJILW-Ke60gd7sHll2I-8Y0gu8Hpt8uILxKhva2d1OWrwLeYQ_aem_8ZjU

Project Esther: A Trumpian Blueprint to Crush Anticolonial Resistance / Yoav Litvin

Nov 22 2024 96 mins  
Yoav Litvin joins us to discuss his Al Jazeera column, "Project Esther: A Trumpian blueprint to crush anticolonial resistance: The Heritage Foundation strategy named after the biblical Jewish queen offers insights into the persecution those who oppose Zionism and white-supremacy will likely face in Trump’s America." "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.

Famine Denial's Past and Present / Alex De Waal

Nov 19 2024 90 mins  
Author and scholar Alex de Waal returns to the show to discuss his recent article at the Boston Review titled "Engineers of Calamity - Famine Denial's Past and Present From Ukraine to Gaza". Check out Alex's article here: https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/engineers-of-calamity/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to o

Betting on US Elections / Francis Northwood

Nov 13 2024 109 mins  
Francis Northwood joins us to discuss his new Baffler article titles "Unsafe Bets - Polymarket’s great expectations". Check out Francis' article :https://thebaffler.com/latest/unsafe-bets-northwood Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell

Trump Presidency Will Expand Unilateral Presidential Power / Karen Greenberg

Nov 10 2024 89 mins  
Legal scholar Karen Greenberg returns to the show to discuss her recent article at TomDispatch titled "It’s Not Just About the President It’s About the Presidency." "Rotten History" by Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview. Check out Karen's article here: https://tomdispatch.com/its-not-just-about-the-president/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access

Cop Feminisms / Sophie Lewis

Nov 06 2024 101 mins  
Returning to This is Hell! is listener favorite Sophie Lewis, author of Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family, as well as Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation. Sophie will be on to talk about her new writing at The Drift, "Lipstick on the Pigs: Kamala Harris and the Lineage of the Female Cop." "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.

Feminist Villains / Nicole Froio

Nov 05 2024 96 mins  
Co-founder of the new feminist blog, Flytrap, Nicole Froio joins us to discuss her new piece titled, "The (Feminist) Empire Strikes Back." The Flytrap Media is a worker-owned, intersectional, and expansive feminist media group that thinks beyond clicks and hashtag-engagement. "Rotten History" from Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview. Check out Nicole's piece here: https://thef