Bond Villians / Clark Randall
Clark Randall on his Boston Review article, "Bond Villains: How a little-understood feature of urban finance—municipal bonds—fuels racial inequality." Sebastian looks at how the United States ended u...
28 Aug 20231h 32min
The Kingdom of Private Equity / George Scialabba
The Baffler's George Scialabba on his latest article, "Kudzu: The kingdom of private equity." Support This is Hell! at https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
23 Aug 20231h 36min
The Rise of Uber and the Fall of the City / Katie J. Wells
Geographer Katie J. Wells joins Chuck to discuss Uber's takeover of urban transportation. Wells is the author of Disrupting D.C.: The Rise of Uber and the Fall of the City with Kafui Attoh and Declan ...
21 Aug 20231h 24min
The Rise of a New Left / Raina Lipsitz
Chucks describes his recent family vacation. Raina Lipsitz discuses her Verso Books title, "The Rise of a New Left: How Young Radicals Are Shaping the Future of American Politics." Rotten History of...
15 Aug 20231h 28min
Greatest Hits: Revolting Capital: Racism and Radicalism in Washington, DC / Gerald Horne
We return to Hell today with Gerald Horne, on his new book “Revolting Capital: Racism & Radicalism in Washington, D.C., 1900-2000” (International Publishers, 2023).
9 Aug 20231h 20min
Greatest Hits: Texas Slavery, Jim Crow, and the Roots of US Fascism / Gerald Horne
Chuck interviews historian Gerald Horne on his 2022 book from International Publishers, The Counter-Revolution of 1836: Texas Slavery, Jim Crow, and the Roots of U.S. Fascism. Please show your apprec...
8 Aug 20231h 18min
Greatest Hits: The Political Economy of Blackness and Boxing / Gerald Horne
Historian Gerald Horne on the intertwined histories of boxing and Black men under the long reach of slavery, White supremacy and capitalist exploitation in the American 20th century, and his book The ...
7 Aug 20231h 21min
Greatest Hits: Race, Religion, Capital, and Slavery in the 16th Century Atlantic / Gerald Horne
Historian Gerald Horne explores the terrains of race, religion, capital and slavery across the 16th century trans-Atlantic world - as European powers pillaged Africa and the Americas of both people an...
2 Aug 20231h 25min
