Truthout
Book Review
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“Listen, Yankee!”: Tom Hayden Captures Absurdity of Cuban Embargo
As tensions begin to cool, looking back at US-Cuba relations paves a way forward.
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“The Rise of Islamic State” Offers Policy Lessons for US Hawks
In a new book, Patrick Cockburn looks at the legacy of recent wars in the Middle East.
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Radical Walt! (Whitman, That Is)
The negatives so powerful today would, in the eyes of Walt Whitman, surely be overcome.
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France: Hatred a la Mode
Zemmour is less a journalist or thinker than a medium through whom the political passions of the moment pass and take on form.
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Norway: The Two Faces of Extremism
Right-wing anti-immigration politics and jihadism are mutually reinforcing.
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David Krieger’s Haunting Poetry: A Wake-Up Call
“WAKE UP!,” David Krieger's most recent book of poetry, is fully alive to the beauty and promise of our precious world.
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The Record Setter: Dr. Carl Hart
“High Price” debunks the myth that there is a direct connection between crime and drug use.
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Uncovering a World War II Prisoner Exchange Program Through Interned Immigrants’ Stories
From 1942 to 1948, thousands of immigrants deemed disloyal to the United States were held in a Texas internment camp.
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Something That Changed My Perspective: Karl Polanyi’s “The Great Transformation“
“The Great Transformation” is audacious: it seeks to explain the 100 years of the absence of large-scale international conflict (1815 to 1914) and why it blew apart so ferociously …
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A Godless Jewish Humanist
Dinah M. Mendes reviews Lawrence J. Friedman's book, “The Lives of Erich Fromm: Love's Prophet.”