5LL #33 - Living Wage, Spirituality, Democracy, Louisiana, Debt

Dollars On the Margins 
Matthew Desmond, The New York Times

A living wage is an antidepressant. It is a sleep aid. A diet. A stress reliever. It is a contraceptive, preventing teenage pregnancy. It prevents premature death. It shields children from neglect.

The Spiritual Case for Socialism
Jedediah Britton-Purdy, The New Republic

This Life attempts to deepen the philosophical dimension of this left and to anchor its commitments in a larger inquiry: What kind of political and economic order can do justice to our mortality, to the fact that our lives are all we have?


"Capitalism is the Number One Threat To Democracy Today"
Meagan Day, Jacobin

From Plato to Marx, thinkers have insisted on the incompatibility between democracy and inequality. Filmmaker Astra Taylor explores that question and others in her new documentary, What is Democracy?

Seeking Utopia in Louisiana
Elle Hardy, Current Affairs

The lost story of a group of socialists who built an extraordinary, but flawed, colony…

Americans Are Drowning in Debt
Joyce Rice and Kevin Moore, The Nib

We live with it. We die with it. And we’re told it’s our fault.

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