5LL #249 - Sabotage, Mothers, Engineers, NIMBYs, Defector

Deeds and Propaganda
Jasper Bernes, The Brooklyn Rail

The most successful environmental movements of our era have been for as much as they have been against.

The Revolt of the Other Mothers
Sarah Jones, New York

Moms for Liberty learned motherhood is a potent force. So too have their opponents.

Engineers, Materialism, and the Communist Method
Nick Chavez, Notes From Below

In this essay, Nick Chavez explores the relationship between engineering - both as an abstract process and as a profession made up of real people - and the communist project, arguing in the process that it has a fundamentally materialist essence.

Enough Already
Ian Volner, The Baffler

If we value housing as a human right, we would probably do well to slip the paradigmatic straightjacket of “affordable housing” altogether, setting our sights instead on “good housing for working people.”

‘The Last Good Website’
Danny Funt, Columbia Journalism Review

Defector is in pursuit of a journalists’ utopia.

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