Saturday on This is Hell!
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9:15 - Economist Geoff Mann outlines the history of Keynesianism's attempts to save capital from capitalism.
Geoff is author of the new book In the Long Run We're All Dead: Keynesianism, Political Economy, and Revolution from Verso Books.
10:00 - Live from Standing Rock, Dr. Sarah Jumping Eagle reports on DAPL resistance in the Trump era.
Sarah is a pediatrician and water protector, we've spoken to her twice in 2016.
10:35 - Journalist Michelle Chen examines Obama's mostly symbolic legacy on labor and trade.
Michelle wrote the Labor and Trade section of Jacobin's feature Assessing Obama.
11:00 - Legal scholar Marjorie Cohn reviews the dangerous record of Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch.
Marjorie wrote the article Trump's Choice of Gorsuch Endangers Civil, Human and Environmental Rights for Truthout.
11:35 - Immigration researcher Karina Moreno finds a neoliberal consensus behind the border wall.
Karina wrote the article The Private Deportation Machine for Jacobin.
12:10 - Mathematician Paul-Olivier Dehaye profiles the use of psychometrics in political campaigns.
Paul posted the recent Medium article The (dis)information mercenaries now controlling Trump’s databases.
12:45 - In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen mangles a thermodynamic theory of evolution.
Jeff previously got thermodynamic in Decmeber of last year.