Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature Before Heterosexuality by R. Bach
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Transformers: Unicron by Frank Barber
Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Intervention Since World War II by William Blum
The Fire Is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley, and the Debate Over Race in America by Nicholas Buccola
The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap by Stephanie Coontz
Selected Non-Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan Africanism by Stokely Carmichael
Relentless Pursuit: My Fight For The Victims of Jeffrey Epstein by Bradley J. Edwards
NITRO: The Incredible Rise and Inevitable Collapse of Ted Turner's WCW by Guy Evans
Anarchism and Other Essays by Emma Goldman
A Brief History of Neoliberalism by David Harvey
Dune by Frank Herbert
Transformers: The Manga Volume One by Masumi Kaneda
Transformers: The Manga Volume Two by Masumi Kaneda
Prejudential: Black America and The Presidents by Margaret Kimberly
Football Against The Enemy by Simon Kuper
The State and The Revolution by Vladimir Lenin
Stream Of Life by Clarice Lispector
Superman: Red Son by Mark Miller
I Fight For A Living: Boxing and the Battle for Black Manhood 1880-1915 by Louis Moore
James Baldwin: Living In Fire by Bill V. Mullen
Too Smart: How Digital Capitalism is Extracting Data, Controlling Our Lives, and Taking Over The World by Jathan Sadowski
Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In by Bernie Sanders
A History Of Medieval Islam by John Joseph Saunders
Hate Inc: Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another by Matt Taibbi
The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale
Weekly Reader
Kim Kelly writes about Emma Goldman in Teen Vogue…
She was a dyed-in-the-wool anarchist who founded an influential anarchist journal, Mother Earth, gained a reputation for her stirring speeches (delivered on extensive speaking tours to crowds of immigrant workers in German, Yiddish, and English), and wrote many books and essays on the subject. Goldman also wrote copiously on capitalism, labor, marriage, birth control, sexual freedom for people of all sexual orientations, prisons, war, art, and freedom of speech, and wrestled with thorny ideological issues within the ranks of leftist thought. She was proud of her Jewish identity but spurned religion as a tool of oppression. Her body of work (including her epic 1931 autobiography, Living My Life) spans decades, and thanks to her gifted writing ability and overall verve holds up far better than many other seminal anarchists’ texts.
Jathan Sadowski in Next Gen magazine on the tradeoff between personal privacy and healthcare…
Whether it’s social-network analysis or social-credit scoring, we should expect these opaque processes that depend on inherently biased data will lead to unjust discrimination and unaccountable outcomes. This is a familiar series of events, as many have pointed out before, that plays out again and again for the simple reason that data has a point of view; it’s embedded with human choices, and it’s the product of social processes. But the difference here is that governments and corporations now possess an end that justifies any means. They can paint any critical concerns as dangerous to the public, not by gesturing to some vague notion of national security or by repeating hollow warnings about increased crime this time but by using the sick as human alibis for anything they deem necessary.
Leigh Stein on the end of the “Girl Boss.” Good riddance.
As Jessa Crispin writes in her 2017 manifesto Why I’m Not a Feminist, when you make feminism so accessible and palatable it can be universally adopted, you put the “focus on labels and identity, rather than on the philosophical and political content of the movement, [and] what becomes most important are the things on the surface.” Things like Chanel products, velvet chairs, and pretty websites.
Tony Rettman interviews Jake Smith from the band Crucifix…
Probably. For me personally, yes. I played with free speech movement leader Mario Savio's kid. Our parents were friends. But for every Dave Yippie or Tim Yohannan, there were nihilists and apolitical people. I think initially, the east bay scene was more distinctive for its variety and weirdness than politics. Tim's imprint on the scene is huge, and he was heavily influenced by the Revolutionary Communist Party, Spartacist Communist ideology he subscribed to. As an anarchist, I saw Tim as an ally overall. He was also a super nice guy and quite sociable. For those of us really into radical politics, the connections were obvious, but not everyone had that overt political focus. Just being a punk weirdo in the world at that time was a political and social statement, so everyone had skin in the game so to speak.
Stuart Schrader in Viewpoint Magazine on the history of “wanted” signs for cops who murder people….
The Harlem Defense Council’s wanted poster predicted that existing avenues of remedy for police abuse would be dead-ends. Sure enough, the NYPD’s civilian complaint review board, composed of departmental appointees, absolved Gilligan, the cop, of wrongdoing. A grand jury cleared him as well. Black New Yorkers already shared a widespread consensus that the existing civilian review board, created in 1953, was toothless. In fact, the initial mobilization in Harlem, the day after Powell’s death, was a rally demanding the creation of a new and independent review board. The next day, protesters marched on a precinct house, calling for Gilligan to be suspended. Cops soon responded with gunshots, rifle butts, and truncheons.