The US South's Elites Have Kept the Region Poor and Underdeveloped / Keri Leigh Merritt
Keri Leigh Merritt returns to discuss her Aeon article, "The southern gap: In the American South, an oligarchy of planters enriched itself through slavery. Pervasive underdevelopment is their legacy."...
16 Apr 20241h 21min
Accenture Is Taking Over Police Reform in LA County / Alec Karakatsanis & Hamid Khan
This Is Hell! returns from Spring Break! Alec Karakatsanis and Hamid Khan join Chuck to discuss consulting and biometrics giant Accenture's quiet takeover of police reform in Los Angeles County, Calif...
15 Apr 20241h 25min
The Cloud is Material and Impacts the Environment / Steven Gonzalez Monserrate
MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society's Cloud Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate on his article, "The Cloud Is Material: On the Environmental Impacts of Computation and Data Storage."...
4 Apr 20241h 37min
Judicial Supremacy in the US / Lisa Heinzerling
Lisa Heinzerling on her Boston Review article, “The Judicial War on Government: The Supreme Court’s latest bid to control agencies like the EPA—and Congress itself." Check out Lisa's article here: ht...
2 Apr 20241h 18min
Hamas' Journey from Charitable Org to National Liberation Force / Assaf Kfoury
We wrap up the week with Assaf Kfoury who wrote the Cosmonaut article, "Hamas From Candidate Enforcer to Implacable Foe." Check out Assaf's article here: https://cosmonautmag.com/2024/03/hamas-from-c...
27 Mar 20241h 28min
Lederhosen Nazis, "Dancing Queen," and other Vibes from CPAC 2024 / Gaby Del Valle
Gaby Del Valle on The Baffler Magazine article, “Lost at CPAC: The paranoid style in conservative politics.” "Rotten History" follows the interview. Check out Gaby's article here: https://thebaffler....
26 Mar 20241h 18min
The Shoah After Gaza / Pankaj Mishra
Pankaj Mishra discusses his London Review of Books article, "The Shoah After Gaza." Check out Pankaj's article here: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n06/pankaj-mishra/the-shoah-after-gaza Help k...
26 Mar 20241h 19min
On Zionist Feminism / Sophie Lewis
We wrap up the week with the return of writer, theorist, and recovering academic Sophie Lewis to talk about her new writing at Salvage Magazine, "Some of my best enemies are feminists: on Zionist femi...
20 Mar 20241h 21min
