5LL #222 - Panics, Health, Influencers, Workers, Politics

The Traffic in Children
Max Fox, Parapraxis
How do you diagnose a panic?
Medicare for All Is Not Enough
Spencer Green, Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant, The New Republic
Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant make the case for health care revolution.
The Rise of Influencer Capital
Malcolm Harris, New York
How social media, celebrity promoters, and banks looking for a quick buck transformed the markets.
Unexpected Sledgehammer: Noel Ignatiev’s Communist Education
Dylan Davis and Patrick King, Los Angeles Review of Books
We trace how Ignatiev grappled with the informal networks of struggle developed by fellow workers during his own time as a laborer in heavy industry.
American Democracy's Bad Infinity
Aaron Bady, The New Inquiry
Everything is political, so the “political” can be nothing in particular. And this means the particular can't be anything.
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