Saturday on This is Hell!
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9:15 - Journalist Rachel Aspden explains how the Arab Spring came to Egypt, and why it failed.
Rachel is author of Generation Revolution: On the Front Line Between Tradition and Change in the Middle East from Other Press.
10:00 - Writer Nicole Aschoff looks from the start of Trump's presidency to the end of neoliberalism.
Nicole wrote the article The Glory Days are Over for Jacobin.
10:35 - n+1 editor Dayna Tortorici makes the case for a Women's Strike now. Well, March 8th.
Dayna wrote the new piece While the Iron Is Hot: The case for the Women's Strike at n+1.
11:05 - Economist Clair Brown lays out the framework for a new compassion within economics.
Clair is author of the book Buddhist Economics: An Enlightened Approach to the Dismal Science from Bloomsbury Press.
12:05 - Political theorist Jodi Dean explains why the Communist Manifesto is more relevant, and needed, than ever.
Jodi wrote the introduction to a new edition of The Communist Manifesto from Pluto Press.
12:45 - In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen goes public on privatization.