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Historian Erik Baker on his Boston Review article, "The Real Scandal of Campus Protest: It’s not that there has been too much student protest. It’s that there has not been much, much more of it." Jeff Dorchen joins us with "The Moment of Truth" after the interview.
Check out Erik's piece here: https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-real-scandal-of-campus-protest/
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Continuing our coverage of the campus protests for Palestinian freedom, Columbia Journalism Professor Helen Benedict joins us to discuss her Tom Dispatch piece, "The Distortion of Campus Protests over Gaza: How the Right Has Weaponized Antisemitism to Distract from Israel's War." "Rotten History" follows the interview.
Check out Helen's piece here: https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-real-scandal-of-campus-protest/
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Natasha Lennard on "I’ve Covered Violent Crackdowns on Protests for 15 Years. This Police Overreaction Was Unhinged."
Check out Natasha's article here: https://theintercept.com/2024/05/01/nyc-gaza-college-protests-police-outside-agitators/
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Correspondent Brian Mier on the Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting article, “‘I Knew They Had Fabricated a False Narrative’: An Interview with Estela Aranha on 'Twitter Files Brazil.'” Estela Aranha is former secretary of digital rights in the Brazilian Justice Ministry. "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview. We also announce this week's best answer to the Question from Hell!
Check out Brian's interview with Estala Aranha here: https://fair.org/home/i-knew-they-had-fabricated-a-false-narrative/
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The Anti-Palestinian Racism Research Group's Jess Ghannam, who is co-author of the just-released "Anti-Palestinian Racism Survey Preliminary Report," joins This Is Hell! to discuss anti-Palestinian racism and its effects in the United States. Following the interview, we will hear some fresh "Rotten History" and a listener email.
Check out the report here: https://medium.com/@aprresearchgroup/anti-palestinian-racism-survey-preliminary-report-april-2024-11cfed327d85
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Jodi Dean on her Verso column, "Palestine Speaks for Everyone." Following the interview, we hear feedback from listeners like you.
Check out Jodi's column here: https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/palestine-speaks-for-everyone
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Laura Robson on her article at The Baffler Magazine, "Assistance as Containment; A historical take on defunding the UNRWA." Plus a Moment of Truth from Jeffrey Dorchen.
Check out Laura's article here: https://thebaffler.com/latest/assistance-as-containment-robson
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Loretta Napoleoni returns to discuss her new book, “Technocapitalism: The Rise of the New Robber Barons and the Fight for the Common Good.” "Rotten History" follows the interview.
Check out Loretta's book here: https://www.sevenstories.com/books/4601-technocapitalism
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Kate Manne returns to talk about her book, “Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia.”
Check out Kate's book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/722318/unshrinking-by-kate-manne/
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We wrap up the week with geographer Michelle Buckley and media scholar Paula Chakravartty co-wrote the Boston Review article, "Labor and the Bibi-Modi 'Bromance': The Israel-India worker deal resembles British indenture." "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.
Check out Michelle and Paula's article here: https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/labor-and-the-bibi-modi-bromance/
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Keri Leigh Merritt returns to discuss her Aeon article, "The southern gap: In the American South, an oligarchy of planters enriched itself through slavery. Pervasive underdevelopment is their legacy." "Rotten History" follows the interview.
Check out Keri's article here: https://aeon.co/essays/capitalism-and-underdevelopment-in-the-american-south
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This Is Hell! returns from Spring Break! Alec Karakatsanis and Hamid Khan join Chuck to discuss consulting and biometrics giant Accenture's quiet takeover of police reform in Los Angeles County, California.
Check out Akela Lacy's article on that process: https://theintercept.com/2024/03/12/los-angeles-jail-accenture-measure-j/
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MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society's Cloud Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate on his article, "The Cloud Is Material: On the Environmental Impacts of Computation and Data Storage." "Rotten History" and some correspondence from listeners follow the interview.
Check out Steven's article here: https://sts-program.mit.edu/news/mit-serc-case-study-the-cloud-is-material-on-the-environmental-impacts-of-computation-and-data-storage-by-steven-gonzalez-monserrate-mit-hasts-graduate-student/
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Lisa Heinzerling on her Boston Review article, “The Judicial War on Government: The Supreme Court’s latest bid to control agencies like the EPA—and Congress itself."
Check out Lisa's article here: https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-judicial-war-on-government/
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We wrap up the week with Assaf Kfoury who wrote the Cosmonaut article, "Hamas From Candidate Enforcer to Implacable Foe."
Check out Assaf's article here: https://cosmonautmag.com/2024/03/hamas-from-candidate-enforcer-to-implacable-foe/
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Gaby Del Valle on The Baffler Magazine article, “Lost at CPAC: The paranoid style in conservative politics.” "Rotten History" follows the interview.
Check out Gaby's article here: https://thebaffler.com/latest/lost-at-cpac-del-valle
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Pankaj Mishra discusses his London Review of Books article, "The Shoah After Gaza."
Check out Pankaj's article here: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n06/pankaj-mishra/the-shoah-after-gaza
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We wrap up the week with the return of writer, theorist, and recovering academic Sophie Lewis to talk about her new writing at Salvage Magazine, "Some of my best enemies are feminists: on Zionist feminism." This will be Sophie's fourth appearance on This is Hell! and her interviews have repeatedly been selected by listeners as their favorites of the year each time she has appeared. Following the interview, Jeffrey Dorchen delivers "The Moment of Truth" live from Second Story Studios, aka the center of Hell.
Check out Sophie's article here: https://salvage.zone/some-of-my-best-enemies-are-feminists-on-zionist-feminism/
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Deborah Brown and Rasha Younes of Human Rights Watch join This Is Hell! to discuss their report, "Meta’s Broken Promises: Systemic Censorship of Palestine Content on Instagram and Facebook." "Rotten History" follows the interview.
Check out Deborah and Rasha's report here: https://www.hrw.org/report/2023/12/21/metas-broken-promises/systemic-censorship-palestine-content-instagram-and
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Oded Na'aman joins This Is Hell! to discuss his Boston Review article, "A Menacing Silence: Why is the reality of Palestinian suffering denied in the Israeli consciousness?" After the interview, we hear share some feedback from our dear listeners.
Check out Oded's article here: https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-menacing-silence/
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