Being A Dissident Is A Capacity, Not A Calling
Scot Nakagawa Waging Nonviolence Gal Beckerman’s new book “How to Be a Dissident” finds that dissidence isn’t a personality type. It’s a human capacity that can be cultivated. This article…
What The 1960s Can Teach Us About Cross-Racial Solidarity
Alexandria Shaner Waging Nonvolice There is a particular kind of political amnesia that can overtake movements in difficult times. We remember the victories but forget the arguments that preceded them.…
Too L.A.: Letters Never Sent (But Some Were) by Eve Babitz
A Review By STEVE WASSERMAN Last things first: Eve Babitz is a major minor L.A. writer who died five years ago at age 78. She spent nearly a quarter-century as…
Martyrs to the Unspeakable: A Luminous Tapestry of Truth
It is a book that could only be written by a man sustained by a spiritual faith that inspired his four subjects to face their own deaths without flinching, so…
Uncover How Your Employer’s Power Flows
A new book teaches how a team of workers can research their employer and design a strategic campaigns based on what they’ve learned.
Chris Hedges: The Impending Collapse of American Empire
The world as we know it is run by an exclusive class of American racketeers who operate with virtually unlimited weapons and money, Matt Kennard’s book reveals.
New Book Captures Revolutionary Spirit of Latin American Liberation Movements
The book documents daily life on the margins of movements for social and economic justice in photographs and poetry.
Lessons in Chemistry – The Real Prince Charming in This ‘Bad Romance’ Is a Good Dog
By Briohny Doyle / The Conversation If you were charmed by the Apple TV+ adaptation of Bonnie Garmus’s debut novel Lessons In Chemistry and want learn more about the book,…
Built on the Bodies of Native Californians
Watch Bob Scheer’s interview w/ Tony Platt on Scheer Intelligence By Dan Siegel / Original to ScheerPost The University of California brags that it brought “light to the darkness” –…
Lessons From One Hundred Years of Journalism
By Mischa Geracoulis / Project Censored In Mr. Associated Press, Gene Allen investigates the Associated Press (AP) and its trajectory from a pony express news agency founded in 1846 to…
How to Ignore 4.5 Million Deaths
A review of Norman Solomon’s War Made Invisible.
Making Madness Normal in Wartime
A new book on World War I by journalist Charles Glass, who has covered recent wars in the Middle East, offers an opportunity for us to compare then and now.
Celeste Ng’s Piercing Portrayal of the Dystopia in Which We Live
Reading “Our Missing Hearts” becomes an exercise in recognizing the many ways today’s America is already a nightmare.
Robert Scheer: Remembering Mikhail Gorbachev, the Greatest Modern Champion of World Peace
ScheerPost revisits Robert Scheer’s 1987 Los Angeles Times review: “From Moscow, First Report of an Unprecedented Call for Change: The Gorbachev Manifesto.”
‘The Color of Law’
By H. Patricia Hynes Editor’s note: This column appeared first on the Op-Ed page of the Greenfield Recorder. For many years, I worked in Boston public housing with teams of…