I’m still working on the Alice Munro essay, which is taking longer than I thought it would, and I want to fly it by trusted readers/comrades before publishing it (I’ve posted about the process a little bit on Facebook). I anticipate that it will be up next week.
In the meantime, the first of new weekly posts: here are links to my Daily Posts from the archives, in case you missed them, and links to some interesting articles from elsewhere on the web. You can follow me on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn.
“A Better Son or Daughter: Donald Trump, Amnesia, and a Capitalist Fable“
“We Are Strangers Here: Notes Towards an Anti-Memoir“
“On Class, Identity, and the Working Class“
“On Trump, Prisons, and Abolition“
From elsewhere on the web:
As USAID continues to be gutted, we ought to remember that it has never been a benevolent agency. Here’s a 2021 essay in Current Affairs, “Aid for Profit: The Dark History of USAID, ” by Saheli Khastagir.
Alex Skopic and Nathan J. Robinson describe the skewed U.S media representation of what really happened when Donald Trump sent people back to Colombia, in “Colombia Stood Up to Trump—But the Media Let Him Shape the Narrative.”
Also in Current Affairs (subscribe already!), Allison Lirish Dean writes about the origins of American sprawl: “In Sprawl We Trust.”
The “Resistance” is up in arms again, headed by liberals like Heather Cox Richardson, whose brand of history is popular and profitable. Here’s “The End of Resistance History,” by Charlotte E. Rosen.
Ali Abunimah, of Electronic Intifada was arrested in Switzerland and then deported, even though he was legally there to talk about Palestine. He speaks about it here.
And, finally:
I hope to travel to Australia and New Zealand someday, but, dear Australia, why are all your animals such assassins?
Stay warm (or cool, if you’re in Australia), stay safe.
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Image: John Rogers Cox, Gray and Gold, 1942, Cleveland Museum of Art
