5LL #328: Ceasefire, Luigi, Andrew Tate, Colonialism, Entrepreneurs
We Have a Ceasefire Deal, but This Isn’t the End
Mohammad Alsaafin, The Nation
The widely reported agreement must hold. We haven’t begun to understand the full scope of the horrors Israel wrought. And Palestine is still not free.
Malm and Mangione
Amna A. Akbar, n+1
Is it conceivable that during Trump’s second term, a new chapter of anti-capitalist struggle will open when his promises turn to dust?
Mr. Lonely
Zoë Hu, Dissent
Some have suggested that young men are drawn to Andrew Tate because they suffer from a dearth of social contact. Yet men go to Tate not to alleviate loneliness but to intensify it.
The Lexicon of Empire
Sam Klug, Boston Review
The work of Cruse and other adopters of the internal colony thesis in the 1960s should give us a hint as to why the definition of colonialism—what it is and what it isn’t, what it can and cannot apply to—remains such a flashpoint.
Fairytale in the Supermarket
Erik Baker, The Baffler
The eruption of class consciousness at Erewhon illustrates the tensions that persisted within the cohort of professional and managerial workers who came of age during the counterculture (or shortly thereafter) and were increasingly encouraged by their bosses—and occasionally their friends—to conceptualize themselves as entrepreneurs rather than employees.