5LL #356: Mothers, Trauma, History, Islamophobia, Students
These Kids in Gaza Are Starving. So Are Their Mothers.
A. Khalil, The Nation
“There’s not enough food for me, so how can I have enough milk for her?” one woman says.
Treating Gaza’s Collective Trauma
Mohammed R. Mhawish, The New Yorker
In Gaza, where displaced children play games called “air strike” and act out death, the lack of mental-health resources has become another emergency.
Gaza and the End of History
Joelle M. Abi-Rached, Boston Review
The apocalyptic scale of death and destruction lays bare the contradictions at the heart of the liberal international order.
Mamdani’s Judeo-Bolshevik Threat
Benjamin Balthaser, Spectre
Mamdani’s paradoxical blackness and whiteness—the way antisemitism is used against Mamdani to suggest he is both against Jews and receives their money—suggests how socialism itself not only produces new political subjects, but scrambles old ones.
A Common Craziness
Hannah Proctor, Parapraxis
From sympathetic liberals to horrified conservatives, “psy” professionals rushed to diagnose politically radical students and came to different conclusions about the family environments responsible for the surge of activism that erupted in the sixties.