BOOK REVIEW | ‘Winners Take All, the Elite Charade of Changing the World’ by Anand Giridharadas In 1889, opulent industrialist Andrew Carnegie penned the foundation statement of the modern philanthropic movement. In what was known as “The Gospel of Wealth ...
17 May 2019 - Joe Martin
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 | ‘Dopesick’ and ‘Pain Killer’ Dope-wasted in Lee County, Va., a disconsolate farmer told his physician that the powerful prescription drug OxyContin had destroyed his life. He had lost everything. Another Virginian, an unemployed miner, admit ...
4 Jan 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 | "Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich" by Norman Ohler Winston Churchill was utterly flummoxed. The German Army’s unexpected Blitzkrieg through France was an astonishing act of audacity that drove the Allied armies to the brink of dis ...
14 Sep 2018 - Joe Martin
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 | 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
BOOK REVIEW | Former Salon editor David Daley documents how Republicans are using technology to ensure gerrymandered victories Ratfucked! A raw epithet that goes back to the 1920s. Five decades later, it became a favorite of Richard Nixon’s dirty trickste ...
29 Dec 2017 - Joe Martin
BOOK REVIEW | 'Thinking Machines' by Luke Dormehl This time is different. In the six decades since the first colloquium on artificial intelligence (AI) at Dartmouth College, periodic predictions about changes implied by AI often proved to be ent ...
19 Jul 2017 - Joe Martin
John Edgar Wideman’s new book explores the injustice delivered to Emmett Till’s father The tragic story of Emmett Till still shocks the conscience of our nation. It was the summer of 1955. Fourteen years of age, Emmett was a good natured black adolescent ...
20 Apr 2017 - Joe Martin