MAGA Rule by the Numbers / Lindsay Koshgarian

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9:15 - Behavioral scientist Samuel Bowles charts out the path towards a moral economics.

Samuel is author of The Moral Economy: Why Good Incentives Are No Substitute for Good Citizens from Yale University Press.

10:00 - Historian Elizabeth Catte explores the Appalachia-sized gap in the liberal worldview.

Elizabeth wrote the piece Liberal shaming of Appalachia: Inside the media elite’s obsession with the “hillbilly problem” for Salon.

10:35 - Columnist Adele Stan examines the dark money fortunes of the Trump White House.

Adele wrote the article What We Do Is Secret: Trumpism as a private-capital scam for The Baffler.

11:05 - Middle East scholar Wendy Pearlman talks about why it's so hard to talk about Syria.

Wendy returns to discuss her interview earlier this month, and her book We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria.

11:35 - Investigative journalist Greg Palast digs through the GOP's vote suppression files.

Greg's latest report is Sanders and Jackson join hands to take on Trump’s Vote Thief-in-Chief at his website.

12:10 - Historian Sean Guillory looks at Vladimir Putin's politics, from Russian eyes.

Sean produces the very valuable and recommended Seans' Russia Blog podcast.

12:45 - In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen gives reality a strip search and pat down.

Is that the order you do those two things?

On This Day in Rotten History...

In 1381 – (636 years ago) — John Ball, an itinerant English priest, was executed for helping provoke a peasant’s revolt against high taxes levied by the state to finance its endless warfare. As England struggled to recover from the plague years of the Black Death, Ball had traveled from town to town, using Bible passages to preach radical ideas of social equality. He achieved great popularity by voicing the grievances of the impoverished peasants in vernacular terms they could understand. After the Catholic Church, which owned a third of the land in England, excommunicated Ball, he took his preaching outdoors, where he drew large crowds. By the time of his final arrest he had already been in and out of prison several times for giving sermons in which he urged his listeners to seize and kill members of the nobility and their lawyers as well as high-ranking members of the clergy, including the archbishop of Canterbury. On the day of Ball’s execution, the fifteen-year-old King Richard II was on hand to watch him first hanged, and then drawn and quartered. The four bloodsoaked quarters of Ball’s body were then sent to four different villages to be displayed in public as a warning to those who might consider heeding his call or following in his footsteps.

In 1927 – (90 years ago) — in Vienna, demonstrators taking part in a general strike against Austria’s right-wing government stormed the National Palace of Justice and set it on fire. The blaze followed several months of earlier protests led by opposition Social Democrats against the regime, which was backed by rich businessmen and Catholic clergy. Those demonstrations had sometimes flared into violence — including one incident in which three right-wing paramilitaries had killed a World War I veteran and an eight-year-old boy and were later acquitted after pleading self-defense. At the Palace of Justice, after demonstrators attacked firefighters and cut their hoses, and after Vienna’s mayor appealed for calm and was ignored, police chief Johann Schober issued army rifles to his officers and ordered them to open fire on the crowd. Eighty-nine labor protesters were killed, along with five police; and some six hundred protesters were seriously injured. Two years later, Schober would go on to become Austria’s chancellor.

Rotten History is written by Renaldo Migaldi

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9:15 - Journalist Jesse Eisinger examines the political consequences of business executive impunity.

Jesse is author of the new book The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives from Simon & Schuster.

10:05 - Valerie Vande Panne explores the time banks and informal economies of post-crash Detroit.

Valerie wrote the article Detroit’s Underground Economy:Where Capitalism Fails, Alternatives Take Root? for In These Times.

10:35 - Live from São Paulo, Brian Mier reports on the trial of former Brazil president Lula da Silva.

Brian will also report on squatting and striking in São Paulo, and the short doc he made covering organizing there this Spring.

11:05 - Writer Michael Deibert examines the quakes in Haiti's political and economic history.

Michael is author of the new book Haiti Will Not Perish: A Recent History from Zed Books.

12:05 - Julianne Tveten and Paul Blest explore the dark side of Silicon Valley's libertarian UBI business plan.

Julianne and Paul wrote the article Silicon Valley Will Not Save You for Current Affairs.

12:45 - In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen gets inapropriate about cultural appropriation.

Part of his ongoing series getting us yelled at online, I guess.

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9:15 - Journalist David Daley explores the GOP plan to ratfuck the vote and rule from the minority, forever.

David returns to This Is Hell! to talk about his book Ratfucked: Why Your Vote Doesn't Count, now in paperback with a new afterward, from Norton.

10:00 - Live from San Salvador, Hilary Goodfriend follows USAID money to corporate ends in El Salvador.

Hilary wrote the article USAID's Trojan Horse that appeared originally at Solidarity, and now at Jacobin.

10:35 - Journalist Michelle Chen examines neoliberalism's assault on public housing, at Grenfell and beyond.

Michelle wrote the The Economic System That Made the Grenfell Tragedy Possible and No, Seattle’s $15 Minimum Wage Is Not Hurting Workers for The Nation.

11:05 - Middle East scholar Wendy Pearlman discusses the Syrian war, from the testimonies of Syrian refugees.

Wendy is author of the new book We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria from HarperCollins.

12:05 - Writer Julian Brave NoiseCat explains how pipeline politics threaten not only native lands, but indigenous sovereignty.

Julian wrote the commentary Law Enforcement is Still Used as a Colonial Tool In Indian Country for the Marshall Project and the Guardian opinion piece Indigenous sovereignty is on the rise. Can it shape the course of history?

12:45 - In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen post-mortems last week's Dykes [HIS WORDS] v Kikes [HIS WORDS] piece.

Two of those words are HIS WORDS just to repeat. Not Alex's words. Not Chuck's words. Jeff's words.

Kevan Harris - Immigration, integration and the myth of the European bootstrap.

Marjorie Spruill - How Christian conservative women built a movement outside feminism - and inside the GOP.

Kevin Kruse - One notion under God: The corporate roots of modern American Christianity.

Carol Anderson - A history (and present) of White rage in the face of Black advancement.