5LL #340: Dysfunction, Empire, Landlords, Brazil, Neoliberalism
Hora Hominem Facit
Paul Mattick, The Brooklyn Rail
MAGA did not erupt from nowhere: the dismantling of the welfare state, the decay of public infrastructure, and the abandonment of the “rule-based international order” have been proceeding for some time.
Most American Literature is the Literature of Empire
Viet Thanh Nguyen, Literary Hub
An imperial literature prefers the realism of showing the imperfect domesticity within an American empire.
Diary of a Spreadsheet
Chelsea Kirk, n+1
Landlords raise rents, evict, harass, all without hesitation. Were they finally feeling a consequence for their actions?
This Land Is Our Land
Vincent Bevins, The Nation
How Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement emerged from right-wing rule stronger than ever.
Free Markets and Fixed Natures
Quinn Slobodian, Boston Review
How neoliberals fell in love with “human nature”—the glue that still unites the divergent factions of the new right.