This Is Hell!

Law scholars Kate Levine and Joanna Schwartz on the role of prosecutors in the brutality of the American legal system, and their article "Hold Prosecutors Accountable, Too" for Boston Review.

https://bostonreview.net/law-justice/kate-levine-joanna-schwartz-hold-prosecutors-accountable-too

Historian Jennifer L. Holland on the success of the pro-life movement within conservative politics, and her book "Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movement" from University of California Press.

https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520295872/tiny-you

Kate Shea Baird on Barcelona En Comú and municipal politics under COVID-19 quarantine, and her article "Lessons from the pandemic for the municipalists in Spain" for ROAR Magazine.

https://roarmag.org/essays/lessons-from-the-pandemic-for-the-municipalists-in-spain/

Writer Connor Woodman on his Verso blog series "The Imperial Boomerang" and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen wonders if we can pretend our way to justice.

Historian Adam Goodman on his new book "The Deportation Machine: America's Long History of Expelling Immigrants" from Princeton University Press.

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691182155/the-deportation-machine

Legal scholar Aya Gruber on crimes against women, mass incarceration and her book "The Feminist War on Crime: The Unexpected Role of Women's Liberation in Mass Incarceration" from University of California Press.

https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520304512/the-feminist-war-on-crime

Sociologist Musa al-Gharbi on the politics of police violence, and his article "Brutal Force" for The Baffler.

https://thebaffler.com/latest/brutal-force-al-gharbi

Organizers Max Rameau and Netfa Freeman on today's uprisings, fighting the violence of dispossession and their article "Community Control Vs. Defunding the Police: A Critical Analysis" for Black Agenda Report.

https://www.blackagendareport.com/community-control-vs-defunding-police-critical-analysis

Writers Richard Hunsinger and Nathan Eisenberg on the unfolding crises of global capitalism and their essay "Mask Off: Crisis & Struggle in the Pandemic" from Cosmonaut.

https://cosmonaut.blog/2020/06/08/mask-off-crisis-struggle-in-the-pandemic/

Writer Eugene McCarraher on capitalism's grip on the modern world and all its subjects, and his book "The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity" from Harvard University Press.

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674984615