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In HBO’s Sex and the City Reboot, the Thrill Is Gone

Marianela D’Aprile Jacobin
At its best, the original Sex and the City took the romantic lives of its characters seriously while presenting them hilariously. But its reboot, And Just Like That…, has sucked all the fun out of its stories.

Unearthing the Truth

The Economist
A Zimbabwean archaeologist reimagines the story of a momentous African civilization. Great Zimbabwe should be a “symbol”, not just of Africa’s power and potential, but of how outsiders have too often told Africans’ stories—and got them wrong.

The Constitutional Right We Have Bargained Away

Carissa Byrne Hessick The Atlantic
Instead of protecting defendants’ right to have their guilt or innocence decided by their peers, judges routinely punish defendants for exercising that right.

Where is the Antimatter?

Sabine Hossenfelder BackReaction
Because there wasn’t an equal amount of matter and anti-matter in the early universe? That solves the problem. Case closed? Of course not. Because physicists make a living from solving problems - so they have an incentive to create problems.

SNCC’s Unruly Internationalism

Dan Berger Boston Review
Though the organization’s legacy has been domesticated, its grassroots leadership embraced the global fight for freedom.

United Elf Workers Union Offers Comforting Words from the North Pole

Ben Kimmel LaborPress.org
Merry Christmas, folks. Let’s take a lesson from Elf Local 1225 and stand together.  Most importantly, let’s not forget what this time of year is supposed to mean. It’s not about masks or or vaccines. It’s about peace, unity and togetherness.

A Christmas Carol and the Communist Manifesto

Nick Matthews Morning Star
Dickens' A Christmas Carol was published in 1843. It has not been out of print since. There wasn’t long to wait for Marx’s bestseller, The Communist Manifesto, published in 1848. It too has never been out of print.