UUJECBy Wendell Berry, 1970, 1989 “Racism versus Community” Wendell Berry hails from Kentucky farm country, so he has had to deal with the heritage of racism in the… Continue Reading The Hidden Wound
How the Environmental MovementLost Its Way & What We Can Do about It By Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith, & Max Wilbert, 1202 “Overwhelming Obstacles, No Practical Solutions” Derrick… Continue Reading Bright Green Lies
Columbus Day is a U.S. holiday that commemorates the landing of Christopher Columbus in the Americas in 1492, and Columbus Day 2020 will be tomorrow. After being unofficially… Continue Reading Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2020
by Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore, 2018 Buy low and sell high—the best advice for those who want to make money. But there’s a problem with that.… Continue Reading The History of the World in Seven Cheap Things
A History of the United States by Jill Lepore, 2018 The “these truths” in this book’s title refer to the truths enumerated in our Declaration of Independence. Lepore… Continue Reading These Truths
by Bill Fletcher, Jr., 2012 A Review They’re Bankrupting Us! is a great resource for people unfamiliar with unions to understand their inner workings. It turns out, once… Continue Reading They’re Bankrupting Us! and 20 Other Myths about Unions
How We Came Apart, How We Come Together by Van Jones, 2017 Van Jones takes both the Left and the Right to task for fomenting the cultural wars… Continue Reading Beyond the Messy Truth
by Steve Keen, 2017 Steve Keen is the world’s leading heterodox economist, so when he speaks, I listen. In this little book, he sums up his model of… Continue Reading Can We Avoid Another Financial Crisis?
A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer, and More Efficient Tax System By T.R. Reid, 2017 T.R. Reid draws on impressive global reporting (as in The Healing of… Continue Reading A Fine Mess
An Enlightened Approach to the Dismal Science by Clair Brown, Ph.D, 2017 Berkeley economist Clair Brown got fed up with free-market economics and turned to Buddhism. She sought… Continue Reading Buddhist Economics