Climate Change and Nonviolent Resistance
Ron Berger — Last November Bill McKibben, a leading environmental activist, delivered the inaugural Jonathan Schell Lecture at the New School in New York City. The [...]
February 2017
Winter Reading: Tolstoy and Mann
Mark Richardson — When I was seventeen years old, I set as a goal for myself the reading of all of the works of a certain group of authors. This group included all of [...]
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Bob Bates — Sociologist Matthew Desmond’s widely acclaimed book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (2016), a study of the city of Milwaukee, pounds [...]
U.S. Immigration Policy and the Jewish Refugee Crisis of the 1930s
Ron Berger — George Santayana famously said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” The mere act of remembering, however, does not [...]
