Saturday on This is Hell!
Listen live from 9AM - 1PM Central on WNUR 89.3FM / stream at www.thisishell.com / subscribe to the podcast
9:10 - Historian Ansley Erickson explains how racial inequality has survived decades of school desegregation.
Ansley is author of the new book Making the Unequal Metropolis: School Desegregation and Its Limits from University of Chicago Press.
10:05 - Historian Andrew Bacevich reframes an American century of perpetual warfare across the globe.
Andrew wrote the Harper's article American Imperium: Untangling truth and fiction in an age of perpetual war and the book America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History from Penguin Random House.
11:05 - Historian Donna Murch recalls how the Clintons built their political power over the top of Black lives.
Donna contributed to the Verso Books collection False Choices: The Faux Feminism of Hillary Rodham Clinton, extracted as the piece The Clintons’ War on Drugs: When Black Lives Didn’t Matter for The New Republic.
11:35 - The Radical Pessimist, Kevan Harris examines the factors behind Iran's involvement in the Syrian civil war.
Kevan's forthcoming, first book A Social Revolution: Politics and the Welfare State in Iran has a release date now. Pumped for this!
12:05 - Investigative journalist Michael Hudson finds American criminals well represented in the Panama Papers.
Mike Hudson's latest writing on the story is Panama Papers Include Dozens of Americans Tied to Fraud and Financial Misconduct for ICIJ.
12:45 - In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen pits himself against the pendulum.
At least he escaped the flood of rats!