5LL #192 - Rulers, Cornel West, Surveillance, Ableism, Red Scares

Thanatos Triumphant
Mike Davis, New Left Review
We are living through the nightmare edition of ‘Great Men Make History’.
Cornel West Sees a Spiritual Decay in the Culture
Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker
A conversation with the prominent philosopher about democracy, disagreement, and how to stay upright in a fallen world.
Unblinking Eyes
Felipe De La Hoz, The Baffler
How urban crime panic fuels the expansion of the surveillance state.
Disrupting the Garden Walls
DJ Savarese, Logic
I’ve been augmenting my communication since I was six years old. Circumventing the ableism encoded into the devices I use to speak has been much harder.
The Red Scare Scarred the Left — But Couldn’t Kill It
Benjamin Balthaser, Jacobin
The postwar Second Red Scare successfully smashed the American left. But in the midst of its devastation, a small number of old leftists refused to be shut up by the climate of fear. Without their heroism, the New Left could never have emerged.
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