Mar
24
2023
This week: From the Rest issue, Charlie Tyson reviews a recent translation of Paul Lafargue’s satirical anti-work polemic from 1883, The Right to Be Lazy. In a new report, Arielle Isack takes stock of anti-racist organizing in the Jewish community.
From the newsletter, senior reporter Alex Kane analyzes how American anti-BDS legislation could penalize Israeli companies looking to protest the new Netanyahu government. Plus, in a new episode of On the Nose, associate editor Mari Cohen and fellow Dahlia Krutkovich are joined by guests Xandra Ellin and Hannah Srajer to unpack The Bachelor’s first serious engagement with Jewish identity.
In Paul Lafargue’s irreverent 1883 pamphlet The Right to Be Lazy, satire is not a tool of glib mockery, but a utopian strategy for imagining another world.
Mari Cohen and Dahlia Krutkovich join guests Xandra Ellin and Hannah Srajer to discuss how The Bachelor's approach to featuring a Jewish contestant reveals the show's investment in Christian whiteness.
