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If You Like Zohran Mamdani, You’re Going To Love His Dad

Kojo Koram Novara Media
What Zohran Mamdani shows is that the tradition his father represents – a postcolonial critique that is sceptical of moralism, wary of elite consensus, attentive to material structures – is not necessarily an anachronism, but can be a blueprint.

This Week in People’s History, Jul 9–15, 2025

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The huge mushroom cloud resulting from testing an H-bomb
‘Nuclear Weapons Endanger the Human Race’ (1955), Standing Up for the Wrong Thing (1955), Jobless Workers on the March (1935), ‘The FBI Can Do No Wrong’ (1975), On the Eve of Destruction (1965)

The Parrot in the Machine

James Gleick The New York Review of Books
The artificial intelligence industry depends on plagiarism, mimicry, and exploited labor, not intelligence.

Cautionary Tales From the New Left

Steve Early Jacobin
In a new memoir, New Left leader Michael Ansara wants to impart lessons from his own time as a campus activist to today’s protesters. But his later role in a corruption scandal that set back Teamsters reform for decades offers its own cautionary less