5LL #337: Civil Liberties, Constitutionality, The State, Abundance, Phones
My Name is Mahmoud Khalil and I Am a Political Prisoner
Mahmoud Khalil, In These Times
A letter dictated by Mahmoud Khalil over the phone from ICE detention in Louisiana.
Constitutional Collapse
Aziz Rana, New Left Review
A left cultural world has been built before, in the US and elsewhere, and there is no alternative to building it again.
Trump’s Antisocial State
Melinda Cooper, Dissent
The administration is attempting to incapacitate the redistributive and social protective arms of the state, while exploiting its vast bureaucratic powers to silence, threaten, and deport.
What’s the Matter with Abundance?
Malcolm Harris, The Baffler
It’s one thing to advocate for class compromise, but another to exclude discussion of class conflict altogether.
The Eternal Present
Kate Wagner, The Late Review
One of the imminent questions of our moment is: what would it take to relearn how to do political work offline, to recognize that there will perhaps be a time — in the very near future — where online work will be rendered impossible for those of us not in favor of the administration?