Trillion Dollar Question
War remains headline news, as ever, perhaps distracting public attention from the Big Bang, so says poet Gerry Sloan.
books
Achille Mbembe: Necropolitics
Critical Legal Thinking
Reviewer Pele says author Mbembe defines “necropolitics” “as the political making of spaces and subjectivities in an in-between of life and death.” Necropolitical practices have their origins in colonialism and the slave plantation.
food
Biden Is Paying Growers To Replace Farmworkers With Bracero Contract Labor
Truthout
Under the new visa pilot program, the administration is prioritizing growers’ profits over farmworkers’ rights.
film
The New Willy Wonka Prequel Is Fun, but It Doesn’t Hold a Candle to Its 1971 Predecessor
Jacobin
In Wonka, Timothée Chalamet dons the eccentric chocolatier’s purple jacket in yet another film adaptation of the Roald Dahl classic Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. This one is playful and harmless, but it can’t touch the 1971 original movie.
tv
Let Bradley Cooper’s Maestro Be the Death of the Biopic
Jacobin
In Maestro, Bradley Cooper plays famed conductor Leonard Bernstein but leaves out the complicating — and fascinating — real-life details for a more streamlined, tearjerking product. It’ll doubtlessly do well at the Oscars.
books
Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity
Mobilizing Ideas
This book explores how social identities of various kinds have spurred the divisiveness of our politics, and how politics has itself become a kind of social identity.
food
Food iS Medicine (FIM): The Latest Food Movement (of Sorts)
foodpolitics.com
Food as Medicine is an emerging concept and the focus of the Food as Medicine Policy Summit; and a range of food companies are ready and waiting with products to make the market.
tv
Twenty Years Ago, the Shield Captured the Brokenness of American Policing
Jacobin
No ordinary cop show, The Shield starred the LAPD’s corrupt anti-gang unit, which itself functioned and behaved like a gang. The show vividly captured the failures of American policing that would animate the George Floyd protests 20 years later.
books
Blacklisted Communist Writer Albert Maltz’s Last Novel Will Finally Be Published in the US
Jacobin
When Communist writer Albert Maltz was blacklisted in the McCarthyist era, no commercial publisher in the U. S. would touch his novel A Tale of One January. A new edition slated for US distribution means his 70-year blacklist will finally end.
books
Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
New York Journal of Books
Maddow's new book surveys pre-WW II fascism in the United States, including the well-known figures in public life who sympathized with or were otherwise associated with the movement.
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