5LL #243 - Work, J. D. Vance, Antisemitism, January 6, Movies

The Age of the Crisis of Work
Erik Baker, Harper's
What is the sound of quiet quitting?
J. D. Vance Changes the Subject
Gabriel Winant, n+1
The mechanism of Vance’s interior contradiction is important to understand — not to argue the case against him, for which sufficient evidence was long ago accumulated, but to extract some meaning about the forces that animate and enable his ideology.
The New Anti-Dreyfusards
Benjamin Balthaser, Spectre
While Jews may have once been essentialized as a marginalized population associated with communism and usury, they have now been essentialized rather as gatekeepers of Western legitimacy at home and abroad.
Will Be Wild
Matthew Sitman, Dissent
The only verdict on Trump and the MAGA movement that finally matters will be delivered through politics.
Necessary Defense
Malcolm Harris and Daniel Goldhaber, Jewish Currents
Director Daniel Goldhaber on turning Andreas Malm’s eco-terrorist manifesto How to Blow Up a Pipeline into a heist movie.
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