5LL #385: Survival, Internationalism, Hegemony, Cops, Hyperpolitics
Between Ruins and Imagination
Mary Turfah, Bookforum
Zionism’s attempt to reshape the Palestinian in its image fails; this does not mean the human being does not suffer.
Import the War, Export the Border
Dylan Saba, n+1
If we are to avoid the worst possible outcomes of this conjuncture, we need an electoral left willing to countenance the collapse of liberalism and to be honest about the need to deconstruct our overseas empire.
Into the Danger Zone
Juliano Fiori, The Baffler
What comes after the liberal order?
Authoritarianism from Below
Stuart Schrader, The New York Review of Books
To some cops and the unions that represent them, the federal invasions of American cities are a chance to undercut the already fraying democratic constraints on police power.
How Politics Went Hyper
Anton Jäger, The New Statesman
The passions that once drove the left have faded, while the populist right marches on.