Chuck interviews Truthout's Kelly Hayes on the article she co-wrote the Boston Review essay with past guest Mariame Kaba, “How Much Discomfort Is the Whole World Worth?: Movement building requires a culture of listening—not mastery of the right language.” 

Jeff returns with a Moment of Truth in which he travels back 39 years to revisit his visit to Morocco.

Movement Building Involves Discomfort / Kelly Hayes

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Dylan Saba and Jake Romm discuss their n+1 article, "Acts Harmful to the Enemy," on international humanitarian law criminalizing revolution. After the interview, we hear new installments of "Rotten History" and "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen.

Check out Dylan and Jake's writing here: https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/acts-harmful-to-the-enemy/

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Revolution Will Always Be Illegal Under International Law / Jake Romm & Dylan Saba

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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Movement Building Involves Discomfort / Kelly Hayes

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