This Is Hell!

Historian Cedric Johnson on police violence, antiracist activism, class politics and his article "The Triumph of Black Lives Matter and Neoliberal Redemption" for Nonsite.

https://nonsite.org/editorial/the-triumph-of-black-lives-matter-and-neoliberal-redemption

Writer Ajay Singh Chaudhary on the diverging politics of climate change and his Baffler article "We're Not in This Together," and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen explores fear and human nature.

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/were-not-in-this-together-chaudhary

Historian Paul M. Renfro on the child abduction panics of the 70s and 80s, America's political and social response, and his book "Stranger Danger: Family Values, Childhood, and the American Carceral State" from Oxford University Press.

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/stranger-danger-9780190913984?cc=us&lang=en&#

Africana studies scholar Yannick Giovanni Marshall on radical uprisings against the police and colonialism, the power of Black radicalism and his op-ed "Black liberal, your time is up" for Al Jazeera English.

https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/black-liberal-time-george-floyd-200601155933648.html

Writer William C. Anderson on the real theft in capitalist society and the uprisings against it, and his article "Forget 'Looting.' Capitalism Is the Real Robbery" for Truthout. And in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen attends the Get Real Shabbat.

https://truthout.org/articles/forget-looting-capitalism-is-the-real-robbery/

Sociologist Sarah Beth Kaufman on the social and legal mechanisms of capital punishment, and her book "American Roulette: The Social Logic of Death Penalty Sentencing Trials."

https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520344396/american-roulette

Cultural critic Henry Giroux on the violence wielded by capital and the state, the uprisings across the country, and his article "Racial Domestic Terrorism and the Legacy of State Violence" for Counterpunch.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/06/01/racial-domestic-terrorism-and-the-legacy-of-state-violence/

Theorist Ariella Aïsha Azoulay on imperial violence in the past and present, unlearning history and her book "Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism" from @VersoBooks.

https://www.versobooks.com/books/3079-potential-history

Sociologists Julius Alexander McGee and Patrick Trent Greiner on neoliberal energy markets and the new realities of climate change.

Julius and Patrick wrote the article "How Long Can Neoliberalism Withstand Climate Crisis?" for Monthly Review.

https://monthlyreview.org/2020/04/01/how-long-can-neoliberalism-withstand-climate-crisis/

The Hopleaf's Michael Roper on the present and future of restaurants under COVID19, and his article "How the Pandemic Wreaked Havoc With One of Chicago’s Most Venerable Beer Bars" for Eater Chicago. And in a Moment of Truth, opportunity knocks and Jeff Dorchen answers.

https://chicago.eater.com/2020/5/6/21243329/hopleaf-bar-owner-michael-roper-coronavirus-challenges-andersonville