Jeff Dorchen

About Jeff Dorchen

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Jeff delivers his commentary on “This Is Hell”, a unique progressive radio show hosted by bitter, blind, gap-toothed Chuck Mertz, broadcast live from the campus of Northwestern University on the web at WNUR.org every Saturday morning beginning 10am Eastern Time. The show is podcast, and its archives and the excellent website for the show are at “This Is Hell”.

Columns

Watch That Whale

If whales were into human-watching, would they watch even while we butchered each other? Do whales have hope for the human species? [28 September 2007]

Hey, You Got Your Ghost in My Machine!

The body and the machine are born innocent. It’s the soul and the mind that make them dirty and evil. A philosophical meandering into America's obsession with automobiles. [9 August 2007]

The Uighur Sanction, or, The Squeaky Jesus Gets the Fig

A Muslim's fasting irritates him – if you've ever spent the month of Ramadan in a Muslim country, you know what I mean. An Evangelical Christian's proselytizing irritates others. Dick Cheney irritates everyone. [16 July 2007]

Come Back to the Five-and-Dime, Soylent Green, Soylent Green

When a "Gravity's Rainbow" perpetually hangs over one's head, dare one feel sunny, happy, optimistic? Or should the storm which brought the rainbow always prevail in one's thoughts? [12 June 2007]

First They Came for the Latinos

Heard rumors of civilians rounded up, locked up, and searched for papers, lately? Don't worry. That only happens in another America. [10 May 2007]