5LL #331: Art, Babies, Labor, Resilience, Distortion
On a Painting by Hamishi Farah
Tobi Haslett, Triple Canopy
Just as the unmanageable negativity of Palestine asserts that the liberal principle of free speech and artistic freedom gets thrown out the window, so is it the case that Palestine is the one issue in which self-professed liberals routinely deny the fundamental principle of equality.
More Babies!
Ben Tarnoff, The New York Review of Books
Trump and his set act carefree in the face of catastrophe—and they give their supporters permission to do the same.
Solidarity in Retreat
Luis Feliz Leon, n+1
Labor must choose between deeper unity and shortsighted conciliation.
Organized Abandonment
Sarah Jaffe, The Baffler
What would a truly democratic recovery look like?
The World After Gaza
Sasha Frere-Jones, 4Columns
What writers like Pankaj Mishra produce—in works like The World After Gaza, a hollow and useless book—is genteel Zionist distortion, where Israel is defined not by its actions but by its idea of itself, as a scrappy “left-leaning” nation propelled by an emotional fog and diverted from a noble purpose by some bad apples back in 1967 or 1997 or maybe 2006.