Mental Health Stigma Won't Prevent Mass Shootings / Olivia Riggio
Olivia Riggio on her Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting article, “Blaming Mass Shootings on Mental Illness Doesn’t Address Either Issue: Rationalizing the horrors of a mass shooting by emphasizing the p...
28 Nov 20231h 10min
Inside the Mind of an "Ecoterrorist" / Christopher Ketcham
Christopher Ketcham on his Harper's Magazine article, "The Machine Breaker: Inside the mind of an ‘ecoterrorist’." Then a Past Inside the Present with Sebastian Wuepper. Check out Christopher's artic...
27 Nov 20231h 35min
The Anti-Trans Panic and the Crusade Against Teachers / Kay Gabriel
Kay Gabriel on her n+1 magazine article, "The Anti-Trans Panic and the Crusade Against Teachers: The goal is to crumble popular support for public education." Plus, a Moment of Truth from Jeff Dorchen...
21 Nov 20231h 49min
In Germany, Reflexive Defenses of Israel Suppress Critics / Susan Neiman
Susan Neiman on her The New York Review of Books essay, "Germany on Edge: In recent weeks, Germany’s reflexive defenses of Israel and suppression of its critics have assumed a fevered pitch." Then ano...
20 Nov 20231h 36min
United Nations Denied Its Role in Haiti's Cholera Epidemic / Pooja Bhatia
Pooja Bhatia Agarwal joins This Is Hell! to discuss her recent Baffler article, "Deadly Strain: How the UN sought to deny its role in Haiti’s cholera epidemic." Plus, another dose of Rotten History fr...
14 Nov 20231h 21min
Pentagon Finds No One at Fault for 2018 Drone Strike that Killed Somali Woman and Child / Nick Turse
The Intercept's Nick Turse joins This Is Hell! to discuss his just-published report, "Civilian Harm Secret Pentagon Investigation Found No One at Fault in Drone Strike That Killed Woman and 4-Year-Old...
13 Nov 20231h 24min
In Western Media, History Began and Ended on October 7th / Saree Makdisi
Saree Makdisi returns to discuss his n+1 article, "No Human Being Can Exist: How can a person make up for seven decades of misrepresentation and willful distortion in the time allotted to a sound bite...
9 Nov 20231h 27min
The Persistent "Man the Hunter" Myth / Faye Flam
Bloomberg's Faye Flam on her Noema Magazine article, “The 'Man the Hunter' Myth Won't Go Away: Persistent myths about strictly defined social roles for humans in the past only limit what it means to b...
8 Nov 20231h 23min
