By Jim McCarville Joan Williams book, White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America, has a lot to teach about the consequences of a “professional privilege” that disadvantages what she calls the […]
Sacred Texts with Violence as Sub-text and Struggle for Nonviolence
By Michael Drohan (Photo caption: Dr. Carol Zinn. Photo credit: The Catholic Leader) Review of Book Is Religion Killing Us?: Violence in the Bible and the Quran by Jack Nelson Pallmeyer, 2003. […]
Hoover vs. Baldwin: The FBI File
June 22, 2017 – By Neil Cosgrove During the 1950s and ‘60s FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover was something of a folk hero for millions of Americans, a crime-fighting protector of the […]
On Tyranny, Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
June 6, 2017 – By Bette McDevitt Timothy Snyder, who wrote this primer of 130 pages, a guide for these times, is a history scholar. His areas of expertise are Nazi Germany […]
The Tail Wagging the Dog
May 3, 2017 By Michael Drohan Review of Book: Makers and Takers:The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business by Rana Foroohar, Crown Business, NY, 2016. Economic inequality is a […]
Attica: A Constant Reminder of a Shameful History
May 9, 2017 By Neil Cosgrove On September 9, 1971 hundreds of inmates at the Attica prison in upstate New York began an unplanned, initially chaotic, take-over of a portion of the […]
The Plot to Scapegoat Russia: New Book By Dan Kovalik
May 19, 2017 By Joyce Rothermel Dan Kovalik, Thomas Merton Center member, international human rights instructor at the University of Pittsburgh Law School, and labor and human rights attorney has just written […]
Syria: Revolution and Counter-Revolution
March 9, 2017 By Michael Drohan Review of book “Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War” by Robin Yassin-Kassab and Leila Al-Shami, Pluto Press, 2016 Robin Yassin-Kassab is a British based journalist […]
Today’s America: Afflicted by Class
March 8, 2016 By Neil Cosgrove Nancy Isenberg’s White Trash: The 400-Year History of Class in America teaches us that the pundits, political operatives and academics should have been paying attention to […]
A New Gospel of Wealth
July 1, 2016 By Laura Quinn Review of Book: Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer, Doubleday, 2016, 449 pages. Jane […]
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