Dear friend, asleep / upright in a seat / when I boarded the train / goat-stepping over / your legs outstretched / why didn’t I wake you / but instead watched / you sleep. A poem by Joshua Weiner.
2014
Three Books Responding to the Repercussions of Slavery
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by Frederick Douglas, Byron Williams, and Jeannine Bell
2014
Two Books about Grassroots Alternatives for Building a New World
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by Antonio González and George S. Johnson
2014
Devil’s Advocate: Building the Religious Counterculture
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I have to admit: I enjoyed {title}Atlas Shrugged{/title}. Something about it resonated, even for me, on the far opposite end of the political and religious spectrum.
2014
Sifting Through Assimilation’s Wreckage to Offer Jews Redirection
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Raphael Cohen reviews Schtick by Kevin Coval.
2014
Doing Justice in an Unjust World
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Thad Williamson reviews Resisting Structural Evil: Love as Ecological-Economic Vocation by Cynthia D. Moe-Lobeda.
2014
Three Books on Facing Climate Change
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by Joel Magnuson, Lester R. Brown, and James Gustave Speth
2014
Violence Against Women: We Need a Transnational Analytic of Care
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When gender-based violence occurs in the Global South, how should feminists in the Global North respond?
2013
Once Out of Nature: Life Beyond the Gender Binary
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To truly include transgender people within Abrahamic religious traditions, we have to shatter the idol of the gender binary and face the truth that trans people embody—the truth that the gender binary represents neither the nature of nature, nor the nature of humanity, nor the nature of God.
2013
Fall to Your Knees and Thank God for Your Eyesight
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the repeated words / sometimes made me think twice before / whimpering about a bruise on my knee, / or foolishly I would say the line just when she did…
2013
Resisting Post-Oppression Narratives
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Class exploitation and racial discrimination has diminished in popularity as an explanation for our society’s continuing social inequalities. In its stead, a “post-oppression” ideology and rhetoric has developed, which leaves “distortions” (such as race-based disparities) to the market alone to resolve.
2013
Where Is Home? A Revolution in Our Personal Lives
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Harriet Fraad reviews books by Eric Klinenberg, Arlie Russell Hochschild, Hannah Rosin, and Charles Murray.
2013
Democratizing Wealth, Democratizing Power
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Thad Williamson reviews What Then Must We Do? Straight Talk About the Next American Revolution by Gar Alperovitz.
Articles
Misty
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A teacher is not one person. A teacher is the many voices he speaks and the quicksilver changes among them: the things he says to administrators and the things he says to parents; the things he says to ninth graders and the very different things he says to juniors; the farce and praise and kowtowing and congratulation, all those necessary notes across the register of human speech. We are whatever we are saying.
Culture
To Have and Have Not: The Latest from Edeet Ravel and Jim Harrison
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The book’s certainly as nostalgic as Tennyson’s Memoriam, and no less melancholic, but unlike legions of other books written on loss, a sweet irony pervades it and makes the work fittingly beautiful, if not hapless to explain the grief that Elise endures.