“My father said when Louis won, the radio static was a wave / of sound that stayed all night like the riots blocks away in Harlem, / as the scent of lilac and gin wafted down Broadway to his window.” A poem by Peter Balakian.
2014
Faith and the Metaphor Muscle
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To grapple well with the big challenges of our times, Hering says, we need to reclaim the language of myth, metaphor, and imagination.
2014
The Legend of How the Tao Te Ching Came Into Being on Laotse’s Journey Into Exile
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“When he was seventy and fragile, / the Teacher felt compelled to seek repose, / for the Good within the land was on the wane, / and Evil gaining strength again. / So he drew on his shoe.” Jon Swan’s translation of a poem by Bertolt Brecht.
2014
Joyful Poems of Leave-Taking and Transience
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Without a Claim is a book of leave-taking and transience, filled with poems about loss and decline, poems that look at the world intently but refuse to cling or assert dominion.
2014
A Secular Analysis of Evil
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In the second book of his trilogy, Lawrence Swaim explains in strictly human terms what causes aggression to replicate itself and how aggression—when rationalized, concealed, or dissembled—can become evil.
2014
Picasso and Chagall: Two Thought-Provoking Art Books
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by Susan Tumarkin Goodman and T.J. Clark
2014
Prospects for a Resurgence of the U.S. Left
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How can the Left overcome its fragmentation? Forming a coalition against neoliberalism and environmental degradation is one way to start.
2014
What Do the Suicides of Fifty-Year-Old Men Reveal?
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Suicide has become a public health emergency for middle-aged men in the United States, exposing a deeper economic and existential crisis.
2014
Political Posters for the Twenty-First Century: A Spotlight on the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative
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Surveillance. War. Immigration. Palestine. Social justice heroes. Occupy. The political posters of the Justseeds collective take on all this and more.
2014
Joining the Party for a More Powerful Left
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The Left spends too much energy deciding whom to exclude. Let’s build a pluralistic, big-tent Left that embraces all with liberal-Left political faith.
2014
What Kind of Left Does America Need?
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Reviving our radical imagination, launching a political education program, and creating a new political formation must be the priorities of today’s Left
2014
Liberalism and the Left
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Younger leftists will work to preserve our country’s social welfare architecture — but we’re also setting our sights on revolutionary ends!
2014
Spring 2014 Table of Contents
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2014
Enter the Alter-Left: Reviving Our Revolutionary Nerve
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Anti-neoliberal mobilizations in Latin America, WTO protests in Seattle, and Occupy Wall Street have catalyzed a promising force: the Alter-Left.