McMansions: American Apocalypse / Kate Wagner
McMansion Hell's Kate Wagner returns to discuss her new Baffler article, “Bad Manors: The McMansion as harbinger of the American apocalypse.”
13 Jun 20231h 7min
The Pandemic Isn't Over / Matt Mazewski
Matt Mazewski joins This is Hell! to discuss his new article, "The Pandemic Isn't Over." Matt Mazewski is a contributing writer and book critic at Commonweal, where he writes on economics and public ...
12 Jun 20231h 29min
Our Ailing Bodies under Late Capitalism / Jennifer Lunden
Writer, speaker, and ecofeminist Jennifer Lunden joins This is Hell! to discuss her new book "American Breakdown, Our Ailing Nation, My Body's Revolt, and the Nineteenth-Century Woman Who Brought Me B...
7 Jun 20231h 26min
Kissinger's Killing Fields / Nick Turse
American journalist Nick Terse joins This is Hell to discuss his recent Intercept piece, "Kissinger's Killing Fields." Interviews with more than 75 witnesses and survivors of U.S. military attacks and...
6 Jun 20231h 14min
"The Economy" is Hell: On Overproduction and Crypto / Trevor Jackson
Economic historian Trevor Jackson joins This is Hell! to discuss two recent pieces: "Overproduction and Its Discontents: Capitalism's inherent predilection for excess" in Baffler Magazine and "The Pri...
5 Jun 20231h 31min
The Warfare State Compromises our Welfare / Lindsay Koshgarian & Ashik Siddique
Lindsay Koshgarian and Ashik Siddique, co-authors of the National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies report, “The Warfare State: How Funding for Militarism Compromises Our Welfare....
2 Jun 20231h 42min
Why Are We in Ukraine? / Benjamin Schwarz & Christopher Layne
Writer and editor Benjamin Schwarz and international affairs scholar Christopher Layne join Chuck to discuss their recent Harper's article, "Why are We in Ukraine? On the dangers of American hubris." ...
31 Mai 20231h 34min
The Christian Roots of Antisemitism and Racism / Magda Teter
Historian Madga Teter joins This is Hell! to discuss her new book, "Christian Supremacy: Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism" now available from Princeton University Press: https://pre...
24 Mai 20232h 4min
