This Is Hell!

Sociologist Kevan Harris on the domestic and international context around the US assassination of Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani. / In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen gets lost in the woods.

Writer Alex Niven on the non-state of British politics, the promise of regional devolution, and his book “New Model Island: How to Build a Radical Culture Beyond the Idea of England” from Repeater Books.

https://repeaterbooks.com/product/new-model-island-how-to-build-a-radical-culture-beyond-the-idea-of-england/

PLUS: Listener Feedback

Anthropologist Maggie Dickinson on food assistance, poverty and her book Feeding the Crisis Care and Abandonment in America's Food Safety Net from University of California Press.

PLUS: Chuck flips through the NRA’s official magazine before turning the gun on himself, and Question From Hell.

Theorist Albena Azmanova explores the new realities of precarity capitalism, the failures of class struggle and her book "Capitalism on Edge: How Fighting Precarity Can Achieve Radical Change Without Crisis or Utopia" from Columbia University Press.

http://cup.columbia.edu/book/capitalism-on-edge/9780231195379

PLUS: Chuck passes on legal weed and the week in Rotten History.

Sociologist Brendan McQuade on his book "Pacifying the Homeland: Intelligence Fusion and Mass Supervision" and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen attends the theater of trauma.

Sociologist Brendan McQuade on his book "Pacifying the Homeland: Intelligence Fusion and Mass Supervision" and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen attends the theater of trauma.

Writer Matt Seaton on his New York Review Daily piece "The Strange Death of Social-Democratic England" / Designer Mike Monteiro on his book "Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It"

https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/12/12/the-strange-death-of-social-democratic-england/

https://www.ruinedby.design/

Writer Matt Seaton on his New York Review Daily piece "The Strange Death of Social-Democratic England" / Designer Mike Monteiro on his book "Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It"

www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/12/12/…mocratic-england/

www.ruinedby.design/

Writer Jacob Hamburger on the French general strike, Macron, the Yellow Vests and his New York Times opinion piece "Fury in France."

Plus: Everything Chuck learned this year, and This Week in Rotten History...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/10/opinion/france-strike-macron.html

Anthropologist Maya Mikdashi on her Jadaliyya report "Beyond the Lebanese Constitution: A Primer" / In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen defends profit.

PLUS: Chuck's favorite books of 2019.

https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/40318