The Evisceration of a Public University / Lisa Corrigan
Professor of communications and director of gender studies at the University of Arkansas Lisa M. Corrigan joins Chuck to discuss the neoliberal dismantling of the University of West Virginia--a harbin...
5 Sep 20231h 32min
The Great Reorganization of Sexuality and Gender / Hugh Ryan
Hugh Ryan on his Boston Review article, "Who’s Afraid of Social Contagion?: Our ideas about sexuality and gender have changed before, and now they’re changing again." Jeff Dorchen shares another Mom...
30 Aug 20231h 15min
Big Tech's Waste "Solutions" Are a Scam / Matthew King
Matthew King on his New Republic article, “Big Tech’s Waste ‘Solutions’ Are a Scam." https://newrepublic.com/article/173780/big-techs-waste-solutions-scam Also, 'This Week in Rotten History.' Suppor...
29 Aug 20231h 14min
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
