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
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
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
Book Review: Growing energy costs will make fossil fuels inviable, Heinberg explains, forcing a societal transformation Book Review: “ Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels ” by Richard Heinberg Let’s face it. We all know we’re in trouble. Last year was ...
14 Jul 2015 - 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
‘House Keys Not Handcuffs’ is an insightful testimony to the trials and triumphs of the homeless Paul Boden’s “ House Keys Not Handcuffs,” a dramatic and disconcerting book on homeless organizing, art and policy in San Francisco and elsewhere, begins with ...
28 Jul 2015 - Paul Von Blum
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
Book review: Martha Long’s “Ma” series shows her genius for storytelling and phenomenal memory for details There are certain expectations that go with genres. A memoir set in Ireland about a girl growing up in poverty evokes the image of lovable alcoholic ...
3 Sep 2015 - Mike Wold
The accounts of Gitmo detainee Mohamedou Ould Slahi reveal brutal – and inefficient – treament It is one thing for the news media to tell us the U.S. government mistreats prisoners at the benignly named Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp. It is entirely anothe ...
8 Oct 2015 - Jim Douglas
The novel ‘At the Center’ portrays the vagaries of a bureaucratic system responsible for addressing society’s ills Sixty-year-old Sylvia Jensen is a veteran social worker and supervisor of a crucial program responsible for the placement of vulnerable chil ...
12 Nov 2015 - Joe Martin