Sam's Essays + Political Nonfic Picks

What do we owe the next generation, those who will inherit the age of climate catastrophe? Daniel Sherrell, a lifelong environmental activist barely older than I am, answers this question with staggering moral clarity. In this book-length missive to his unborn child, he neither minimizes the looming struggle nor caves under the weight of existential despair. Sherrell recognizes that one of the many battles we must win is against hopelessness and apathy; whatever comfort can be found in admitting defeat, he wants none of it. I hope everyone on Earth reads this.

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Sarah Jaffe eviscerates the exploitative idea that you must be willing to sacrifice fair pay, or healthcare, or your dignity for a job just because your love for the work should be fulfillment enough.

Taylor views democracy not as a set form of politics to be followed, but as an active process of productive conflicts between noble ideals across history. The most necessary fights of our lives -- for a safer, kinder, fairer, more just world -- have been going on for millennia, as is shown in this radical account of humanity's most dangerous dream.

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Calls for a dramatic overhaul of Marxist theory and rhetoric in order to confront the emergence of a new ruling class -- one whose control over the distribution and direction of information makes them distinct, and perhaps worse, than the capitalist overlords of yesteryear.
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