Saturday on This is Hell!
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9:15 - Art historian Harriet Senie explores America's maintenance of national myths through war memorials.
Harriet is author of Memorials to Shattered Myths: Vietnam to 9/11 from Oxford University Press.
10:00 - Historian David Broder explains what the Anti-Trump left must learn from the anti-Berlusconi left.
David wrote the recent article Being Anti-Trump Isn’t Enough for Jacobin.
10:35 - Economist Dean Baker accounts for the economics of global trade in the Trump era.
Dean wrote the recent op-eds More Republican Handouts to the Rich and The Trouble With Trade: People Understand It for Truthout.
11:05 - Historian Osamah Khalil examines the illusions America sees when it looks to the Middle East.
Osamah is author of America’s Dream Palace: Middle East Expertise and the Rise of the National Security State from Harvard University Press.
12:05 - Journalist Kevin Davis discusses the impact of neuroscience in the criminal justice system.
Kevin is author of The Brain Defense: Murder in Manhattan and the Dawn of Neuroscience in America’s Courtrooms from Penguin.
12:45 - In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen awakens to reality, or something like it.
Wonder of wonders, all beings are invited to Jeff's latest segment.