"If we wish to stop the atrocities, we need merely to step away from the isolation. There is a whole world waiting for us, ready to welcome us home." Derrick Jensen
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Review of A Methodology of the Heart
September 1st, 2005With A Methodology of the Heart: Evoking Academic and Daily Life, author Ronald J. Pelias aims to change academia, and more importantly, change us. Academia makes us crazy, drives us out of our minds and out of our bodies. So does science, journalism, eco- nomics, law, and this culture’s religion. Indeed, this separa- tion from […]
Read More... Filed in Book reviewsReview of “Trust Us, We’re Experts!”
April 8th, 2001Would We Lie to You? Muckrackers shine a light on ‘experts’ paid to mold public opinion In a society where science is regularly equated with truth, scientists are often vested with the authority once given to prophets, priests and God Himself. Slap a Ph.D. after someone’s name, and we’re much more likely to believe whatever […]
Read More... Filed in Book reviewsReview of Can’t Jail The Spirit: Political Prisoners in the U.S.
September 1st, 1999Common mythology has it that there are no political prisoners in the United States, the land of the free. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The argument could be made that a good portion of the nearly two million US citizens in prison are political prisoners, that is, that their imprisonment serves political purpose. […]
Read More... Filed in Book reviewsReview of Lockdown America by Christian Parenti
September 1st, 1999One Nation Under Lockdown LOCKDOWN AMERICA Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis By Christian Parenti Verso Press, 284 pages, price $25 cloth ISBN 1-85984-718-8 Release Date September 1999 How, precisely, do you define a police state? Is it the number of police per capita? How about the number of prisons? Police use of […]
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