Recommended Reading: Extinction Phobia
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Recommended Reading: Extinction Phobia
This Week's Recommended Reading on Substack: Jessie Daniels, Daniel Drezner, Jessica Pishko, Steven Beschloss, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Derek Beres, and Michael Ian Black
This Week's Recommended Reading on Substack:
writes that “extinction phobia is, at the most basic level, an irrational fear of annihilation. It is a kind of existential dread, which is a profound, deep-seated psychic or spiritual condition of insecurity and despair about the human condition and the meaning of life. There’s a lot of it going around these days, understandably so.” writes that “prognosticators can always claim that the bad outcome was only averted because of their warnings. Even if that turns out not to be true, pundits can always justify their pessimism as a form of prudence or caution. On the whole, the penalty for excessive pessimism is much less than the penalty for excessive optimism in international affairs.” writes that “we don’t need Richard Mack and the CSPOA to tell us that sheriffs are a threat. His medicine show is an act, one which is fine to watch but should be taken as the whole story. The problem isn’t necessarily “constitutional sheriffs.” It’s the fact that sheriffs naturally and without much urging are perfectly willing to create a world where they are the highest law in the land.” writs that “while GOP extremists are rejoicing the arrival of this cruel law that will cause unnecessary suffering and medical danger for Arizona women and their families involved in the most private of decisions, you can be sure there are plenty of Republicans who have grasped that their chance of holding onto the U.S. House, taking the U.S. Senate and regaining the presidency just got more difficult.”
Ruth Ben-Ghiat writes that “for men to preserve their ‘natural’ right to dominate, and White Christian civilization to continue, women must be deprived of reproductive rights and demeaned, disciplined, and criminalized if they resist. This larger frame of authoritarian gender politics is key for understanding the assaults on abortion rights that are making news today, as in the new ban on abortion in Arizona that has no exceptions for rape or incest.”
writes that the reporting on Russel Brand’s “accusations of sexual abuse is a far greater negative appraisal of the depths a man can sink in his own vanity and delusions of grandeur. Notice the reduction of the charges, however: oh, he sleeps around, big deal. In reality, this wasn’t a ‘hit piece,’ but investigative reporting into the claims of five women, one of whom Huberman lived with and was actively trying to have a baby with. You can claim this is ‘no issue’ if the women consented to this setup, but the piece that Brand and every other defender overlooks is the fact that they did not.” writes that it was Ronald Reagan “who ripped up the social contract of the post WWII boom: undermining unions, lowering taxes on the wealthy which he justified using the ‘voodoo economics’ of supply-side capitalism, exploiting racism, turning his back on the AIDS crisis, antipathy towards the environment, and – just for funsies - I’ll throw in illegally selling weapons to the same country that kidnapped our citiziens to secretly fund a war in Nicaragua.”
This is a particularly good round-up, Teddy. Thanks.