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Life in senior communities has been dissected in two recent shows: Man on the Inside with Ted Danson and The Thursday Murder Club starring Helen...
The Algerian-born French novelist, Albert Camus, a pied-noir, began his existentialist classic, The Stranger, with the now memorable words, “Mother...
Call it “The Crisis,” but which one do you mean? the crisis here or the crisis there? Though there is no steadfast distinction; here is there and...
The Algerian-born French novelist, Albert Camus, a pied-noir, began his existentialist classic, The Stranger, with the now memorable words, “Mother...
Of all the events that unfolded in the first half of the 1970s, none has haunted me more than the blast in an apartment building in Manhattan that...
Gioia Woods— a professor at Northern Arizona University and the author of a new enlightening book about City Lights (City Lights: Lawrence...
Every movement needs researchers and writers who present technical matters in ways that activists and organizers can understand and apply. Michael...
Years ago, when I used the words “colonialism” and “imperialism” in academia in the U.S., I was viewed as a communist. Now, in the wake of the...
It never was easy to be Adam Raskin, an uncommon radical, and the youngest of four brothers born to Mildred and Sam who left the Communist Party in...
For more than 100 years, his short story, “To Build a Fire,” was required reading for nearly every school kid in the US, most likely to teach them...
Unlike Frederick Engels, I have never owned a factory, but like Engels I have been and still am a Marxist. For decades, I was also a capitalist in the...
A student of historiography and the study of history, as well as history itself, Eric Foner would like yet another American Revolution, one which...
Abbie and Anita Hoffman with their son, America in 1972. Leah Kushner, America Hoffman’s personal family photos. Abbie and Anita Hoffman with their...
recall a large map in our rural school in Oklahoma that featured a flood of red, indicating communism, pouring over the North Pole, reaching the...
I’d read and heard loads about One Battle After Another and invited a friend who came through the long Sixties to see it with me. She has studied...
“Killing African nationalists is like killing animals. My men and I killed between five and ten thousand Congolese rebels.” – Mike Hoare,...
“When in the Course of human events…” You remember those resounding words which are as memorable as “We the People…” The brothers who...
The War in Vietnam pushed me out of academia, turned me into an anti-imperialist and cast a long shadow on my life. The March on the Pentagon, the...
“The idea that we’re the greatest people in the world because we have the most money in the world is ridiculous. Wait until this wave of...
That great slumbering beast, the Columbia University alumni, has finally awakened. Over 4,000 graduates from all the many schools of the institution,...
Paul McCartney heard rumors of the wild goings-on in the Haight and visited on April 4, 1967. At the Fillmore Auditorium, he listened to a rehearsal...
The old men and women in Stacy Torres’s new book, At Home in the Big City: Growing Old in Urban America, (UC Press; $29.95), are not like the...
A day before Donald Trump’s inauguration and the same day that—thousands of miles away— hostages were released in Gaza, the Third Baptist Church...
It wasn’t Abbie Hoffman’s finest moment. But it was one of them. It was a critical moment in 1987 when he and the daughter of a president protested...
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