5LL #336: Mahmoud Khalil, McCarthyism, South Africa, Healthcare, Fascism
Mahmoud Khalil’s Abduction Is a Red Alert for Universities
Dima Khalidi, The Nation
Schools across America have a choice: Defend their students against Trump or be complicit in his crimes.
Muskism and McCarthyism
Alan Dean, Charles Petersen and Corey Robin, n+1
In 2017, at the beginning of the first Trump Administration, Robin wrote for n+1 two of the most incisive early examinations of the new presidency. Eight years later we asked Robin to help us think through the present conjuncture.
Elon Musk Is South African. We Shouldn’t Forget It
William Shoki, The New York Times
For all the attempts to describe Mr. Musk as a self-made genius or a dispassionate technocrat, he is in fact a distinctly ideological figure, one whose worldview is inseparable from his rearing in apartheid South Africa.
Disposable by Sarah Jones Explores How the Healthcare System Prioritizes Profit Over Human Life
Sarah Jones, Teen Vogue
Our healthcare system prioritizes profit over human life.
The First Freudian Analysis of Fascism
Håvard Friis Nilsen, Parapraxis
Reich’s book was until then the only contribution to the understanding of fascism from the ranks of psychoanalysts, and the first psycho-social analysis of Hitler as a leader, a genre that would gain momentum after the war.