5LL #354: Law, Complicity, Clashes, Slop, 9/11
The Gavel and the Gun
Darryl Li, Jewish Currents
Palestinian history shows that armed struggle campaigns often catalyze gains in international lawmaking.
Complicity
Mary Turfah, Parapraxis
Who looks at a Palestinian child and needs to hear that theirs could be next? Those for whom children are not enough.
Heat Map
Jason E. Smith, The Brooklyn Rail
It is no wonder, then, that the incinerated robot cars hit a special nerve: they are cop cars after all, and treated as such.
Deadly Slop
Sophia Goodfriend, The Baffler
Across the world, rising authoritarians are hurtling into intractable military conflicts with the assistance of artificial intelligence, which is busily churning out both an endless supply of questionable military targets and low-grade memes—a deadening and deadly mess of synthetic material saturating battlefields and content streams alike.
The Righteous Community
Jackson Lears, London Review of Books
Those of us who seek to conceive an end to endless war must somehow learn to challenge embedded American fixations and fantasies, as well as habits of mind and heart.