Review

Steven Pinker’s new book, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, is a propaganda windfall for the leaders and supporters of the U.S. imperial state, currently …

(Image: Verso) What's scary about Thomas Friedman is not his journalism, with its underinflated insights and twisted metaphors. Annoying as his second-rate thinking and third-rate writing may …

Former Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney at CPAC 2011 in Washington, DC, February 10, 2011. (Photo: Gage Skidmore) Of all the members of the …

(Image: Profile Books) With his book, “Free Radicals,” British physicist and journalist Michael Brooks seeks principally to provide a counternarrative to popular interpretations of the scientific world …

(Image: AK Press) Why are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform Edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore …

(Image: Haymarket Books) “People Wasn't Made to Burn” by journalist Joe Allen reads like a lively, creative work of fiction with its abundance of larger-than-life characters and …

(Image: McSweeney's Books) “Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women's Prisons” Waldman, Ayelet and Robin Levi San Francisco: McSweeney's Books, 2011. …

(Image: PM Press) “Black Mask & Up Against the Wall Motherfucker: The Complete Works of Ron Hahne, Ben Morea and the Black Mask Group” Oakland: …

(Image: Berrett-Koehler Publishers) Most Americans don't realize that the idea that “corporations are people” and “money is speech” are concepts that were never, ever considered or promoted …

(Image: © 2011 Warner Bros. Ent.) A preview of “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” turns into group therapy for post-9/11 New Yorkers. I knew all …