Architecture Firms Drive Ever-Larger County Jails / Amanda Abrams
Amanda Abrams on her story at The Intercept, "The Little-Known Reason Counties Keep Building Bigger Jails: Architecture Firms." "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview. Check ou...
12 Jun 20241h 20min
Insulin Profiteering Kills / Edward Ongweso Jr. & Athena Sofides
Edward Ongweso Jr and Athena Sofides on their Baffler essay, "The Insulin Empire: How profiteers pushed a lifesaving drug out of reach." "Rotten History" follows the interview. Check out Edward and A...
11 Jun 20241h 31min
Israel's War on Hospitals Includes Imprisoning Doctors / Kavitha Chekuru
Kavitha Chekuru on her Intercept article, "Gaza's Stolen Healers: Hundreds of Palestinian Doctors Disappeared Into Israeli Detention." Check out Kavitha's article here: https://theintercept.com/2024...
11 Jun 20241h 16min
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
