Badass Book Review: The Future of our Schools, Teachers Unions and Social Justice by Lois Weiner Since the massive public sector upsurge in the 60's and 70's, teachers unions in…
Badass Book Review: The Future of our Schools, Teachers Unions and Social Justice by Lois Weiner Since the massive public sector upsurge in the 60’s and 70’s, teachers unions in…
Book Review: Raising expectations (and Raising hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement, by Jane McAleveyIt's been a tough couple of decades to be a trade unionist. Since the…
Book Review: Raising expectations (and Raising hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement, by Jane McAlevey It’s been a tough couple of decades to be a trade unionist. Since…
Book Review: Raising expectations (and Raising hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement, by Jane McAlevey It's been a tough couple of decades to be a trade unionist. Since…
Book Review: Raising expectations (and Raising hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement, by Jane McAlevey It’s been a tough couple of decades to be a trade unionist. Since…
I have another piece up at Ricochet: a review of Naomi Klein’s big book on climate change, This Changes Everything. It’s friendly but critical, looking at what the book’s themes…
Perhaps you fear losing the parent you care for. Or maybe, you fear your own death as you care for your dying relative. Maybe you just don’t know who you…
About 20 pages into Susan Allen Toth’s caregiving memoir, “No Saints Around Here”, I decided I didn’t like the author. Not one bit. “How can a wife sigh loudly in…
I'm 47 years old, and if you're around my age or older you've probably heard of or read David Chilton's book 'The Wealthy Barber'. I'm certain that Mr. Chilton is…
I’m 47 years old, and if you’re around my age or older you’ve probably heard of or read David Chilton’s book ‘The Wealthy Barber’. I’m certain that Mr. Chilton is…
I’m 47 years old, and if you’re around my age or older you’ve probably heard of or read David Chilton’s book ‘The Wealthy Barber’. I’m certain that Mr. Chilton is…
In her classic song, Woodstock, Joni Mitchell ended with the chorus: We are stardust Billion-year-old carbon We are golden Caught in the devil’s bargain And we’ve got to get ourselves…
i often disagree with Noel Ignatiev – and the following essay is certainly no exception in that regard – however his reasoning is often provocative, which though a bit maddening…
Owing in large part to Hollywood’s discovery of its infinite star vehicle potential, the “intersecting lives” narrative has become, in recent years, something of a cop out. When the A-story…
Divided World Divided Class: Global Political Economy and the Stratification of Labour Under Capitalism is a book published by Kersplebedeb (and available from leftwingbooks.net) back in September of last year.Divided…
I enjoyed reading Thomas King’s new book “The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America.” I’ll stop short of saying “it’s something everyone should read,” but…
Over the holidays I read Matt Yglesias fantastic book “The rent is too damn high,” which deals with urban policy in the United States and its effect on housing prices.…
In a delirious, hallucinogenic voice, author Barry Webster turns directly toward the place and experience of femininity in a queer life dominated by masculine desires.
Before undertaking to read and review C. James Jensen’s book, ‘Beyond The Power of Your Subconscious Mind‘, I had already read many books of a similar nature, titles like ‘The…
