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This is Hell.

Hello, listeners.

Will Ipin here, producer of This Is Hell.

As you may have noticed on our Patreon page and social media accounts, Chuck is out of commission this week with COVID.

However, worry not. We have a special lineup of past interviews this week with past guests who are all scheduled to be interviewed on This Is Hell in the coming weeks,

and all of whom who have new books coming out on the days we're scheduled to interview them.

Today's episode features two interviews. First up is our April 23rd, 2023 interview with historian and listener favorite Quinn Slobodian.

He joined us to discuss his new book, Crack Up Capitalism, Market Radicals, and the Dream of the World Without Democracy,

which analyzes the ideologies of the emerging techno-authoritarian capitalists

like Peter Thiel and his ilk who seek to short-circuit democracy, which they view as holding

back humanity from technological progress, which of course they're the masters of, in favor

of a world governed by and for techno-feudal

CEOs like themselves.

A prescient conversation, turns out, as now many of those people have literal power within

Trump's new administration.

After our conversation with Quinn, we will turn to a March 2019 conversation with another

listener-favorite historian, this time of American imperialism, one Greg Grandin, about his book, The End of the Myth,

From the Frontier to the Border Wall and the Mind of America, which traces America's

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