‘Thomas Mann’s War’ by Tobias Boes chronicles the European anti-fascist, whose books were burned by Nazis F lames of ignorance and hate lit the darkness on a May evening in 1933. The consuming pyre was fed by thousands of heaped books set on fire by Nazis ...
20 Jan 2021 - Joe Martin
BOOK REVIEW | “Homewreckers: How a Gang of Wall Street Kingpins, Hedge Fund Magnates, Crooked Banks and Vulture Capitalists Suckered Millions Out of Their Homes and Demolished the American Dream” by Aaron Glantz What’s your favorite token in Monopoly: the ...
8 Nov 2019 - Helen Hill
BOOK REVIEW | ‘Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World’ by Annie Lowrey When Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang introduced his “Freedom Dividend,” a plan to give every adult in ...
26 Jul 2019 - Ashley Archibald
BOOK REVIEW | "American Intolerance: Our Dark History of Demonizing Immigrants” by Robert E. Bartholomew and Anja E. Reumschüssel In November 1688, an elderly Irish Catholic woman named Ann Glover was hanged in Boston. The Massachusetts Bay Colony wa ...
3 May 2019 - Joe Martin
Book review | “Joe Gould’s Teeth” by Jill Lepore Who is Joe Gould? He has been dead since 1957 but he keeps popping up. There was a time, during World War II, that his name had become known to many, thanks to a splendid profile about the unkempt little ma ...
30 Nov 2018 - Joe Martin
BOOK REVIEW | In ‘Privacy: And How To Get it Back’ author B.J. Mendelson says we’re up against the power of apathy in a battle which only wealthy tech companies win The problem with universal basic income is that proponents haven’t suggested a good source ...
10 Aug 2018 - Megan Wildhood
BOOK REVIEW | ‘Automating Inequality’ by Virginia Eubanks shows how technology is stacked against the marginalized When politicians and business leaders talk about using technology to streamline service provision to the poor, they conjure up an efficient, ...
3 Aug 2018 - Mike Wold
BOOK REVIEW | 'Nomadland' looks at RV- and van-dwelling travelers in search for a place to park their lives The headlines may talk about growth, but we are living in a dark economic era. For most families, income and wealth have stagnated in rec ...
15 Jun 2018 - Joe Martin
BOOK REVIEW | The writer of 'The Once and Future Liberal' provides an elegantly concise how-we-got-here history I had thought the malaise of relentlessly focusing on identity was just me. That only I was feeling like an ant under a magnifying gl ...
1 Jun 2018 - Megan Wildhood
BOOK REVIEW | Author Patrick Phillips delves into the violent past of the county in Georgia where he grew up Check out the website for Forsyth County, Ga. Looks pleasant and picturesque, “a great place to call home and do business” and not too far from At ...
18 May 2018 - Joe Martin