Sinners and Strivers

I was at Powell's Books in Portland, specifically in their politics section, when it hit me: looking for new books to read always makes ...

Written in devastatingly beautiful prose, Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things starts with an immense tragedy - the drowning of a you...

Ok, honestly? I bought Training for the Uphill Athlete because of the pictures. I'm not kidding. I was in Munising this past Feb (se...

If you want to know what the Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein is all about, look at what she tells Gail Kastner, a living survivor of one ...

2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson has been on my radar for a while but after hearing his interview on Chapo Traphouse I ran right out and b...

"So the question to me is not: can we afford this? It's not even: can we afford not to afford this? It's: this wealth has ...

" Service to God may take the form of caring for the poor and destitute, but the goal is not to emancipate the poor so that they c...