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Book Review: Rumours of Glory by Bruce Cockburn

Canadian musician Bruce Cockburn on singing in praise of nonviolence “I honour nonviolence as a way of being, and as a political tactic, but I am not a pacifist. As we continue to watch the world’s greatest military powers plunder weaker states and people ...

1 May 2015 - Joe Martin
The end of youth

A new book by Holocaust survivor Eva Schloss reflects on her famous stepsister, Anne Frank Anne Frank and Eva Schloss, both born in 1929, had known each other for a long time before they became stepsisters. In fact, when they did become stepsisters in 195 ...

12 Apr 2015 - Renate Schwarzbauer
Faith, power, money and death

Book review: God’s Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican by Gerald Posner Italian banker Roberto Calvi’s body is found hanging from Blackfriar’s Bridge in London on June 18, 1982, bringing to an end another chapter in Italy’s made-for-TV sa ...

12 Apr 2015 - John Barker
Ghosts in the Machine

Book Review: "Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous” by Gabriella Coleman The nebulous Internet collective called Anonymous is a many-headed hydra. From its anarchic early days as an outgrowth of the notorious image-posting ...

3 Apr 2015 - Katherine Luck
"The Divide:" A criminal justice system that targets the poor and favors the wealthy

Matt Taibbi’s new book looks at the American justice system and the gap between what we’re led to believe and the reality of our economics The premise for “The Divide” is that our society has become “disturbingly comfortable” with a perverse system of jus ...

27 Feb 2015 - Jim Douglas
2,000 feet below the surface

The San Jose copper mine in the Atacama Desert of central Chile was founded in 1889. It is a testament to owner neglect. The 121 years of mining have left the mountain honeycombed. The unusually high pay induces miners to travel up to 36 hours to get to t ...

18 Feb 2015 - John Barker
Children of the core; Jesse Hagopian discusses his new book on the drawbacks of standardized testing

If you’re not in some way involved with public schools, you may not be aware of the explosion of standardized testing in schools over the past 10 years. Preparing for and taking these tests has significantly affected teaching and learning on all levels in ...

28 Jan 2015 - Mike Wold
Black healing power; new book examines the Black Panthers' fight against medical discrimination

The award-winning author Alondra Nelson is a professor of sociology at Columbia University and the author of books addressing health, race and sociology. In “ Body and Soul,” she skillfully details — in five chapters, between an introduction and conclusio ...

23 Jan 2015 - Glenna Martin
Integration of church and state: Mussolini and Pope Pius XI

The history of fascim in Italy has been too kind to the Roman Catholic Church and its leader at the time, Pope Pius XI. In his book “ The Pope and Mussolini,” professor David I. Kertzer provides a sharp corrective to the record in his groundbreaking, acce ...

9 Jan 2015 - George Howland Jr
From pole dancer to Ph.D.: one woman’s empowering memoir

Early in her life, author Lacy M. Johnson was made aware of her good looks. When she was only 7 years old, her mother entered her lovely blonde daughter into a beauty pageant: “In the pictures, I don’t look like a child of 7. I walk in that sashaying page ...

19 Nov 2014 - Joe Martin