Episode 19: Spring Awakening

Wear is the Love, Episode 19

In Episode 19, we discuss Michael’s writing from last week. It’s a good episode if you need to catch-up on the Dobbs Supreme Court opinion leak. Plus, we talk Italy. Our favorite!

1. Apocalypse Now: How the Left and Right Get Danger Wrong (CT)

2. Quick Thoughts on Alito’s Draft Opinion and the Fallout

3. Dobbs, Accountability and the Shifting Ground Under Roe

4. Food and the Life of the Nations (Mere Orthodoxy)

Episode notes:

Good Enough Podcast episode

Italian polling on EU membership

The Top 5 Articles for your week

1. “Since Derrida” (Aeon Magazine)

   Because this essay looks at the effects post-structuralist thinkers like Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault have on identity politics.

2. “We Pay to Keep the Old Out of Poverty. Why Won’t We Do the Same for the Young?” (NYT)

   Because this framing is helpful to think about the array of poverty policies we have the ability to enact for children.

3. “The One Parenting Decision That Really Matters” (The Atlantic)

   Because statistically speaking, where (geographically) a child grows up has the most impact on the later success of that child. Are we all moving to Madison, Wisconsin now, or what?

4. “Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control: Inside Shein’s Sudden Rise” (Wired)

   Because if Forever21 was the fast fashion giant of the 2000s, Shein is the new model. But labor reports and environmental reports show the ultra-fast retailer is inaugurating a new global reign for unsustainable business practices.

5. “How a Massacre of Nearly 300 in Syria Was Revealed” (New/Lines Magazine)

   Because we must not forget the violence and turmoil of the last 11 years in Syria, and how it’s far from over. (n.b. there’s coarse language and fairly descriptive details of violence and death in this essay)