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This Is Hell!

This Is Hell!

Manufacturing Dissent since 1996

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500 episodes

  1. Cultural Resistance to Data World and Managed Despair / Curtis White 1:58:03
  2. Right-Wing American Misunderstandings About South Africa / Eve Fairbanks 1:19:17
  3. Chuck Opens a Bloated Mailbag / The Greatest Audience in Hell & Chuck Mertz 1:13:25
  4. Worker Resistance in Big Tech / JS Tan & Clarissa Redwine 1:26:41
  5. An Indicted Minneapolis 15 Defendant Speaks Out / Cal Robinet 1:38:45
  6. Building Socialism Requires Dismantling Empire / Sudip Bhattacharya 1:33:50
  7. Another Brazilian Coup Attempt Underway / Brian Mier 1:31:37
  8. Breaking ICE / Sonali Kolhatkar 1:29:49
  9. 15 Million Excess Deaths from US For-Profit Health Insurance / Nick Smolek 1:38:21
  10. The Bail Trap / Robin Steinberg & Robin Camilo 1:32:41
  11. The Long Fight Against Equality in the United States / Kim Phillips-Fein 1:27:15
  12. "Genocidal Enjoymment" on Display in IDF Social Media from Gaza / Raúl Pérez 1:42:40
  13. Israel's $1 Billion Hasbara Influence Machine since October 7th / Nick Cleveland-Stout 1:26:06
  14. Imperialist Realism / Daniel Bessner 1:55:54
  15. Trump's War on Boats / Adam Isacson & John Walsh 1:30:26
  16. Sponsoring The Genocide In Palestine / Fintan Drury 1:40:32
  17. The Winners And Losers In The Future Of Drugs / Kojo Karam 57:28
  18. White Supremacy At The US Border / John Washington 1:40:01
  19. Canada and its Asshole Neighbor + Chuck Gets Interviewed / Dónal Gill 2:31:25
  20. How To Think About AI Before It’s Too Late / Cory Doctorow 1:20:04
  21. Nativism Shapes Scarcity, Hierarchy, and Belonging Under Capitalism / Peter Bloom 1:55:41
  22. The Anti-Defamation League & The Racial State / Emmaia Gelman 1:23:31
  23. Gerontocracy / Samuel Moyn 1:44:27
  24. A History of Conspiracy Theory / Andrew McKenzie-McHarg 2:04:30
  25. Chicago's Conviction Machine / Flint Taylor 1:39:03
  26. The Story Of The Jewish Bund / Molly Crabapple 1:29:03
  27. Inventing Antifa / Lauren Fadiman 1:44:01
  28. US Media’s Complicity In The Gaza Genocide / Robin Andersen 1:32:33
  29. We Are Being IP-ed to Death / Vicky Osterweil 1:43:32
  30. Immigration Detention Expansion During Trump’s Second Term / Nayna Gupta & Aaron Reichlin-Melnick 1:25:43
  31. The Politics of Police Reform in Minneapolis / Michelle Phelps 1:28:57
  32. How Money Dominates Human Lives Everywhere / Arjun Jayadev 1:26:39
  33. Another Bag of Mail / Chuck Mertz & the World's Best Audience 1:21:04
  34. How The British Made The Far Right Acceptable / Daniel Trilling 1:20:54
  35. The Death of Asylum / Tanvi Misra 1:46:32
  36. Reshaping War For The 21st Century / Shana Marshall 1:34:32
  37. Internationalism from Below / Leila Al-Shami & Benjamin 1:36:17
  38. The Authoritarian Coalition’s Strategy Of Power Consolidation / Rakeen Mabud 1:15:22
  39. Elon Musk Is a Symptom / Quinn Slobodian & Ben Tarnoff 1:55:31
  40. Loyola University Union Thugs pt. 2 / Paige Warren 21:43
  41. The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy + Loyola Union Thugs pt. 2 / A.J.A. Woods 1:37:53
  42. Labor Struggle in Higher Ed: An Update from Loyola University Chicago SEIU 73 Faculty Forward Union 1:58:01
  43. Colonialism Continues From Oil To Cancer In Kenya / Nelly Madegwa 1:13:00
  44. AI Grifters in Power & Reactionary Third Way Centrist Dems / Henry Burke 1:52:48
  45. Ukraine Going From Maidan To War / Volodymyr Ishchenko 1:34:35
  46. Death by AI / Andy Worthington 1:37:01
  47. Fighting Against The Corporate Monsters Of Plastic / Diane Wilson 1:23:23
  48. 2026 Listener Favorites (so far): Imperial Boomerangs / Séamus Malekafzali 1:14:20
  49. 2026 Listener Favorites (so far): Escape from Capitalism / Claire Mattei 59:53
  50. Trump's Imperial Presidency / Mohamad Bazzi 1:45:47