Episode 867
Revolution Brewing
Sep 19 2015
Bukele’s official popularity ratings are still soaring and the other shoe has maybe yet to drop. He has already consolidated power to an unprecedented degree in the country. He has purged the judiciary illegally. He has rewritten the Constitution allowing for a second term. He's now in his second term, will he go for a third? What else will he do to maintain that grip on power? Once authoritarians get a taste for it, they're often willing to go to great lengths to keep a hold of it.
John Washington joins us to discuss his recent piece in the New York Review of Books, "The Roots of Bukele’s Gulag." An all new "Rotten History" and "The Moment of Truth" segments follow the interview.
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Sep 18 2015
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Listen live tomorrow 9AM - 10:30AM Central on WNUR 89.3FM or stream here at thisishell.com
9:10 - Historian Ray Raphael explores the politics behind America's revolutionary moment.
Ray is co-author (along with Marie Raphael) of the book The Spirit of 74: How the American Revolution Began from the New Press.
9:50 - Filmmaker Leslee Udwin follows a rape, a backlash, and a political movement in India.
Leslee is the director of the documentary India's Daughter. She'll be screening and talking about the film on Wednesday night at the Siskel Film Center. Listen live to win tickets!
Sep 11 2015
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9:15 - Economist Michael Hudson explains how finance became capitalism's driving force.
Michael is author of the new book Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Destroy the Global Economy
10:05 - Jacobin editor Megan Erickson explores childhood in an age of austerity and division.
Megan's new book is Class War: The Privatization of Childhood from Verso Books.
11:05 - Sociologist Javier Auyero profiles daily life in Argentina's most dangerous neighborhood.
Javier is co-author (along with María Fernanda Berti) of In Harm's Way: The Dynamics of Urban Violence from Princeton University Press.
12:05 - Writer Michelle Chen looks to the present and future of digital labor organizing.
Michelle wrote the article The Unionization of Digital Media for The Nation.
12:45 - Jeff Dorchen bashes (from the left) a left-basher bashing from the left.
We're worried that many left turns puts Jeff on the right.
Sep 10 2015
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Here's what Chuck is reading this week to prepare for Saturday's show:
Michael Hudson - Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Destroy the Global Economy
Megan Erickson - Class War: The Privatization of Childhood
Javier Auyero & María Fernanda Berti - In Harm's Way: The Dynamics of Urban Violence
Michelle Chen - The Unionization of Digital Media
Sep 4 2015
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Heather Exner-Pirot explains how a melting Arctic and international politics threaten indigenous land and political autonomy.
Heather wrote the chapter Whose Arctic Is it? in the Worldwatch Institute's report State of the World 2015: Confronting Hidden Threats to Sustainability.
Aug 28 2015
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9:10AM - Historian Joyce Mao explores China's role in shaping modern American conservatism.
Joyce is author of Asia First: China and the Making of Modern American Conservatism from University of Chicago Press.
10:05AM - Lawpagandist Brian Foley explains the importance of narrative and storytelling in the courtroom.
Brian will be talking about the Legal Writing Institute.
10:35AM - Writer Eve Ewing remembers the ghosts of closed public schools in Bronzeville and beyond.
Eve wrote the letter Phantoms Playing Double-Dutch: Why the Fight for Dyett is Bigger than One Chicago School Closing at Seven Scribes.
11:05AM - Author William Deresiewicz surveys the cost of a neoliberal university education.
William is author of the September Harper's cover story The Neoliberal Arts: How college sold its soul to the market.
12:05PM - Activist Alberto Roque Guerra contrasts LGBT life in Cuba and the United States.
Dr. Roque Guerra will be speaking at the LGBTs in Cuba event on September 1st.
12:45PM - Jeff Dorchen pokes the turd of nationalist paranoia.
Don't worry, Jeff will be using a stick in this metaphorical situation.
Aug 27 2015
Posted by Alexander Jerri
Here's what Chuck is reading this week to prepare for Saturday's show:
Joyce Mao - Asia First: China and the Making of Modern American Conservatism
Eve Ewing - Phantoms Playing Double-Dutch: Why the Fight for Dyett is Bigger than One Chicago School Closing
William Deresiewicz - The Neoliberal Arts: How college sold its soul to the market [subscription required]