Video: Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee – Hootin’ the blues
. Saunders Terrell (1911 – 1986), known as Sonny Terry, was a blind American Piedmont blues musician. He was widely known for his energetic blues harmonica style, which frequently included … Continue reading
Andy Piascik: The Day in 1937 When Casco Workers in Bridgeport Sat Down on the Job
It was an event that lasted less than a day and involved only 50 people directly. It was organized, led and carried out by everyday workers and thus contradicted … Continue reading
Doug Anderson: Procedure
While the doctors were riding around in me in their little chrome submarine, and a sniper with his snippers stood by the bay door poised to pluck any polyp stupid … Continue reading
George Yancy and Brad Evans: The Perils of Being a Black Philosopher
Brad Evans: In response to a series of troubling verbal attacks you recently received following your essay in The Stone in December, “Dear White America,” the American Philosophical Association put … Continue reading
Deborah Bogen: Post-Traumatic Stress Ghazal
Fear fades, but the stain is set, remembered in odd neuron groups, each vignette remembered. The shadow of the bridge that floated on the water, the broken boy half-drowned, … Continue reading
Factory Farming and the Environment
With over nine billion animals raised and slaughtered for human consumption each year in the U.S. alone, modern animal agriculture puts an incredible strain on natural resources like land, water, … Continue reading
The Vegan Kitchen: Dolmas — Wonderful Lebanese Grape Leaf Rolls
Think of this filling like a pilaf that can be varied in all kinds of ways. Try bulghur instead of rice, or add other herbs like cilantro or mint. Toasted … Continue reading
George Monbiot: The Zombie Doctrine
Crisis after crisis is being caused by a failed ideology. But it cannot be stopped without a coherent alternative. It’s as if the people of the Soviet Union had never … Continue reading
John Samuel Tieman: Tuesday
You think of Sigmund Freud. You have a little bust of him on your desk, one you bought at the Freud home when you and your wife were in Vienna. … Continue reading
Chris Hedges: Revolution is in the Air
WASHINGTON, D.C—The sustained, daily civil disobedience at the Capitol by demonstrators denouncing the capture of our political system by corporate money is part of one of the largest and most … Continue reading
Jose Padua: A Poem About UFOs Ending with a Flashback to Days Long Gone
Whenever time passes more quickly than I think it should, I wonder if I’ve been abducted by a UFO. I check if all my body parts seem to be in … Continue reading
Gerard Manley Hopkins: God’s Grandeur
The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed. Why … Continue reading
Video: How to Age Gracefully
People from the ages of 7 to 93 answer the question, “What advice would you give your younger self?” This charming video by Andrew Norton was selected by the Vimeo … Continue reading
Erich Fromm: On Narcissism
Narcissism is an orientation in which all one’s interest and passion are directed to one’s own person: one’s body, mind, feelings, interests… For the narcissistic person, only he and what … Continue reading
