Book review: 'Giant's Causeway' by Tom Chaffin Frederick Douglass is a colossal presence on America’s 19th-century stage. An impressive black man, his electrifying oratory excoriated the injustice of slavery polluting this nation’s avowed a ...
27 Aug 2015 - Joe Martin
Author’s argument against capital punishment is compassionate and thought-provoking, but could go deeper If you’re going to put somebody to death for a crime, you’d want to be sure they’d committed it, right? Yet prisoners, guards, chaplains, lawyers and ...
26 Jul 2015 - Mike Wold
Book review: Erik Larson's 'Dead Wake' presents a spectacular narrative of the Lusitania, sunk 100 years ago In the early stages of the first world war, the efficacy of submarines as powerful tools of war was lost on many, but not all. Shor ...
29 May 2015 - Joe Martin
John Barker reviews “Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town” by Jon Krakauer It was non-stranger rape. It was a non-stranger rape of a college student by a classmate she had known from first grade, her neighbor growing up who referred to ...
25 May 2015 - John Barker
Capitalism may hold the answer to climate change, authors say, but we all can do our part to help "The rich will adapt. The poor will suffer.” That’s where we’re headed with global warming, according to “ Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a ...
14 May 2015 - Tom Watson