This Is Hell!

Budapest correspondent Todd Williams reports on authoritarian politics and the Coronavirus in Hungary, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen considers existence and other disposable items.

Historian Andrew Liu on the geopolitics of Coronavirus blame, the pandemic's spread across the global market, and his n+1 article "Chinese Virus,' World Market."

https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/chinese-virus-world-market/

Economist Eileen Appelbaum on the US legislative response to the Coronavirus, and her article "The U.S. Response to COVID-19: What’s in Federal Legislation and What’s Not, but Still Needed" written with Shawn Fremstad for CEPR.

https://cepr.net/the-u-s-response-to-covid-19-whats-in-federal-legislation-and-whats-not-but-still-needed/

Writer Breanne Fahs explores the power of the feminist manifesto - as radical act of anger and imagination, and revolutionary document of social change.

Breanne is editor of "Burn It Down! Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution" from Verso: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3151-burn-it-down

PLUS: Chuck can't go back to whatever normal was, and this week in Rotten History...

Our Man in San Juan, Dave Buchen reports from colonial lockdown in Puerto Rico and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen imagines his way out of this mess.

Writer Max Haiven on the world mid-crisis, the struggle to come, and his essay "No return to normal: for a post-pandemic liberation" for ROAR Magazine.

https://roarmag.org/essays/no-return-to-normal-for-a-post-pandemic-liberation/

Economist Josh Gans on the global and national mobilization against the Covid-19 pandemic, how societies must transform to save lives, and his policy brief "A War Footing: Surfing the Curve" for EconFIP.

https://econfip.org/policy-brief/a-war-footing-surfing-the-curve

Evolutionary biologist Rob Wallace on the linked global crises of Covid-19 and capitalism, waking up to the fight for our lives, and his article "Notes on a novel coronavirus" for Monthly Review.

https://mronline.org/2020/01/29/notes-on-a-novel-coronavirus/

PLUS: Chuck on survival capitalism and this week in Rotten History...

Political scientist Yekaterina Oziashvili on the antidemocratic structure of American society and her article “The U.S. Constitution and the Myth of Liberal Democracy” for Left Voice, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen ranks the Austrian nobility.

https://www.leftvoice.org/the-u-s-constitution-and-the-myth-of-liberal-democracy

Historian On Barak on British energy imperialism in the Middle East, the carbon infrastructure of the modern world, and his book "Powering Empire: How Coal Made the Middle East and Sparked Global Carbonization" from University of California Press.

https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520310728/powering-empire