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Monthly Review | June 2021 (Volume 73, Number 2)

This issue of Monthly Review includes three articles addressing questions of epidemiology and health: John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark, and Hannah Holleman, “Capital and the Ecology of Disease”; Vicente Navarro, “What Is Happening in the United States?”; and Jennifer Dohrn and Eleanor Stein, “Epidemic Response: The Legacy of Colonialism.” Taken together, they cover a wide range of issues: economic, ecological, epidemiological, and political. But for each of them, the current COVID-19 crisis necessarily looms in the background. Where capitalism itself is concerned, the dominant view is that the COVID-19 crisis is simply an external, “black swan” event: something that has entered from outside the system, constituting a rare, unpredictable, and unlikely to be repeated occurrence. The world capitalist economy, we are informed, was fundamentally sound prior to the advent of this unforeseen exogenous shock, and it will revive quickly once the SARS-CoV-2 virus is under co

Monthly Review | Jennifer Laurin, on the guidance offered in Sensing Injustice

Jennifer Laurin in honor of the launch of Michael Tigar’s book, Sensing Injustice: A Lawyer’s Life in the Battle for Change “How can I convey to you the experience of reading Michael’s book? Well, there are the basic attributes: Some 500 pages . . . 17 chapters, which begin chronologically with the early years of Michael’s life, and then shift to being organized thematically according to the immense range of legal issues on which Michael has labored over his career – challenging the surveillance state, representation of draft resisters, criminal defense work challenging instances of prosecutorial overreach, litigating government regulation and prosecution of speech, challenging the government’s use of the death penalty, and pressing the envelope of international human rights law in the U.S. and abroad.

Monthly Review | Watch Tigar and Wynn: A legendary lawyer and a legendary judge in conversation (ABA Rule of Law Initiative)

Just before the release of Michael Tigar’s new book, Sensing Injustice, the American Bar Association Center for Human Rights (ABA CHR) hosted a dynamic conversational event between Tigar and the Honorable James A. Wynn.  Scroll down to Tigar interviewed Judge Wynn about his legendary life and career, highlighting 14 case opinions by Judge Wynn: Long v. Hooks, 972 F.3d 442 (4th Cir. 2020) (en banc), as amended (Aug. 26, 2020) (concurrence) (Concluded that a defendant in a decades-old rape case should be released for having demonstrated actual innocence under the habeas statute. The defendant was released at the state’s request days after the opinion was filed.)

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