BOOK REVIEW | “Free All Along: The Robert Penn Warren Interviews” by Stephen Smith and Catherine Ellis In 1964, Robert Penn Warren, the famed white writer, interviewed a number of black leaders – organizers and writers – and eventually published a lengthy ...
7 Jun 2019 - Mike Wold
BOOK REVIEW | “No Place to Go: How Public Toilets Fail Our Private Needs” by Lezlie Lowe What makes a city livable? Urban planners talk about public spaces, pedestrian access, good transit, parks and more. But they almost never talk about public toilets. ...
12 Apr 2019 - Mike Wold
BOOK REVIEW | 'A Time to Rise' is a collection of personal reminiscences of the Union of Democratic Filipinos (KDP) Many histories of the New Left end with the 1960s or early 1970s, often focusing on the White student opposition to the Vietnam W ...
19 Jan 2018 - Mike Wold
BOOK REVIEW | 'How to Make White People Laugh' uses comedy to tackle social justice issues It may be possible to change the world one joke at a time. At least, that’s the thrust of Iranian-American comic Negin Farsad's May 24 release, a boo ...
19 May 2017 - Mike Wold
BOOK REVIEW | ‘This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism,’ by Ashton Applewhite The oldest baby boomers turned 71 in 2016. Since boomers have a reputation for being involved with social movements, it’s not at all surprising, as they hit retirement age, ...
26 Jan 2017 - Mike Wold
BOOK REVIEW | ‘Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond’ by Marc Lamont Hill When you hear about one more killing by police, read one more statistic about racial disparities in arrests and mass incarceration ...
27 Dec 2016 - Mike Wold
BOOK REVIEW | James Kilgore explains our dubious grip on freedom in ‘Understanding Mass Incarceration’ The irony of our criminal justice system is that our “land of the free” locks up more of its people than any other country. As such, it’s an outlier in ...
28 Apr 2016 - Mike Wold
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
At last count, the U.S. had more than 500 military bases in other countries. It spends as much on its armed forces as the rest of the world combined. According to author John Michael Greer, that’s because the United States is an empire and its military do ...
19 Aug 2014 - Mike Wold
Sociologist Jake Rosenfeld, author of “ What Unions No Longer Do,” describes union decline as if he were a building inspector describing the key weaknesses in an aging building where unions are a failing structural element. In sharp contrast, Steve Early’ ...
14 May 2014 - Mike Wold