Book Review
Review, “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate”
September 19, 2014A great service to the environmental movement and a masterful examination of the ways in which climate change is impacting our political and economic systems.
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“Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists”: Great socialist novel marks 100th anniversary
August 22, 2014Frank Owen, a socialist house painter, repeatedly attempts to convert his coworkers to his way of thinking: one part of the novel is melodrama the other part social and economic satire.
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Abraham Galloway biography provides truer picture of Civil War
August 8, 2014Abraham Galloway, an African-American bricklayer by trade, became a leader of the abolition cause and built a network of freedom fighters deep in the Slave South.
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A largely forgotten tale: Communist Party’s role in the South
June 24, 2014The Unemployed People's Movement: Leftists, Liberals, and Labor in Georgia, 1929-1941 challenges the notion that Southern white workers were incapable of action with African Americans.
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“Roberta’s Fire”: Homophobia, hate, redemption in a Texas town
May 5, 2014I had some mind-traveling to do in reading "Roberta's Fire," by Texas songwriter-singer-journalist Kelly Sinclair.
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