Ketamine / Dan Piepenbring
Dan Piepenbring on his Baffler article, "K-Pop: Our forefathers did dissociatives." Dan is the New Books columnist for Harper’s and the co-author, with Tom O’Neill, of CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, ...
5 Jun 20242h 2min
Revolution Will Always Be Illegal Under International Law / Jake Romm & Dylan Saba
Dylan Saba and Jake Romm discuss their n+1 article, "Acts Harmful to the Enemy," on international humanitarian law criminalizing revolution. After the interview, we hear new installments of "Rotten Hi...
22 Mai 20242h 1min
Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition / Silky Shah
Silky Shah joins us to discuss her new book from Haymarket Books, "Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition." Check out Silky's book here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2213-unbuil...
20 Mai 20241h 34min
Student Encampments Aren't a Danger to Jews. Crackdowns Are. / Hadas Thier
Hadas Thier returns to This Is Hell! to talk about her writing at The Nation on the Columbia protests, "The Student Encampments Aren’t a Danger to Jews. But the Crackdown Is." Hadas is author of, "A P...
15 Mai 20241h 24min
Democracy Is Bad for Israel / Murtaza Hussain
Murtaza Hussein returns to This Is Hell! to discuss his recent Intercept piece, "They Used to Say Arabs Can’t Have Democracy Because It’d Be Bad for Israel. Now the U.S. Can’t Have It Either." "Rotten...
14 Mai 20241h 15min
The Rise of the Tradwife / Sarah Bouillete & Astrid Lorange
Sarah Bouillete and Astrid Lorange join This Is Hell! to discuss what they call, "inexorable rise of the tradwife: the social media influencer who embodies an idealized aesthetic of wifehood" in their...
13 Mai 20241h 21min
We Have Not Had Enough Campus Protest in the US / Erik Baker
Historian Erik Baker on his Boston Review article, "The Real Scandal of Campus Protest: It’s not that there has been too much student protest. It’s that there has not been much, much more of it." Jeff...
8 Mai 20241h 25min
Columbia Professor Corrects Distorted Media Coverage of Campus Protests / Helen Benedict
Continuing our coverage of the campus protests for Palestinian freedom, Columbia Journalism Professor Helen Benedict joins us to discuss her Tom Dispatch piece, "The Distortion of Campus Protests over...
7 Mai 20241h 22min
