Emine Fidan Elcioglu on her Social Problems journal article, “Armed Citizens on the Border: How Guns Fuel Anti-Immigration Politics in America." "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.

Check out Emine's article here: https://academic.oup.com/socpro/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/socpro/spad034/7222583

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Guns Fuel US Anti-Immigration Politics / Emine Fidan Elcioglu

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Silky Shah joins us to discuss her new book from Haymarket Books, "Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition."

Check out Silky's book here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2213-unbuild-walls

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Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition / Silky Shah

Hadas Thier returns to This Is Hell! to talk about her writing at The Nation on the Columbia protests, "The Student Encampments Aren’t a Danger to Jews. But the Crackdown Is." Hadas is author of, "A People’s Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics." Jeff Dorchen delivers "The Moment of Truth" after the interview.

Check out Hadas' article here: https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/campus-encampment-police-crackdown-antisemitism-brutality/

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Student Encampments Aren't a Danger to Jews. Crackdowns Are. / Hadas Thier

Murtaza Hussein returns to This Is Hell! to discuss his recent Intercept piece, "They Used to Say Arabs Can’t Have Democracy Because It’d Be Bad for Israel. Now the U.S. Can’t Have It Either." "Rotten History" follows the interview.

Check out Murtaza's article here: https://theintercept.com/2024/05/08/american-democracy-israel-us-arabs/

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Democracy Is Bad for Israel / Murtaza Hussain

Sarah Bouillete and Astrid Lorange join This Is Hell! to discuss what they call, "inexorable rise of the tradwife: the social media influencer who embodies an idealized aesthetic of wifehood" in their recent Verso piece, "From Scratch." After the interview, we check the mailbag.

Check out Sarah and Astrid's piece here: https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/from-stratch

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The Rise of the Tradwife / Sarah Bouillete & Astrid Lorange

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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Guns Fuel US Anti-Immigration Politics / Emine Fidan Elcioglu

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