
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

Greatest Hits: Global White Supremacy and International Apartheid Resistance / Gerald Horne
Historian Gerald Horne explores the intersection of White supremacy, Cold War politics and global liberation movements in southern Africa - as the struggle against colonialism and apartheid oriented i...
1 Aug 20231h 18min

Greatest Hits: The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism / Gerald Horne
While Chuck is away for the next two weeks in Northern Michigan on the annual family vacation, producer Will Ippen is holding down the fort. This episode features the first of six This is Hell! interv...
31 Juli 20231h 24min

Anti-Putin Russian Militia Has Ties to Neo-Nazi and Anti-Trans Figures / Ben Makuch
Ben Makuch discusses his recent Intercept report titled " Russian Militia Has Links to American Neo-Nazi and Anti-Trans Figures: The leader of the anti-Putin Russian Volunteer Corps is publicly connec...
26 Juli 20231h 26min

The U.S. Could Still Do What's Right for Haiti / Jake Johnson
Center for Economic and Policy Research's Jake Johnston on his opinion piece at The New York Times, “The U.S. Still Can Do What’s Right for Haiti.” Afterwards, Rotten History explores the Erfurt Latr...
25 Juli 20231h 17min

The Good Enough Momfluencer: Disavowing maternal fantasies is easier said than done / Sophie Lewis
Writer, theorist, and recovering academic Sophie Lewis returns to Hell to discuss her Baffler article, “The Good Enough Momfluencer: Disavowing maternal fantasies is easier said than done.” The artic...
24 Juli 20231h 18min




















