(Image from Amazon.com) For Louder Days: Reaching Beyond a Politics of Powerlessness by Yotam Marom is a non-fiction book that challenges progressive and left-wing movements to overcome their ambivalence toward power, insularity, and comfortable defeat, offering strategies for more effective, strategic, and loving political activism. [1] Book Details Why Readers… Continue reading
A Terrible Love of War James Hillman War is a timeless force in the human imagination—and, indeed, in daily life. Engaged in the activity of destruction, its soldiers and its victims discover a paradoxical yet profound sense of existing, of being human. In A Terrible Love of War , James… Continue reading
The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich Evan Osnos From New York Times bestselling and National Book Award–winning author Evan Osnos comes a timely and provocative collection of essays exploring American oligarchy and the culture of excess, providing a wry, unfiltered look at how the ultra-rich shape—and sometimes warp—our social and… Continue reading
Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World Daniel Sherrell From a millennial climate activist, an exploration of how young people live in the shadow of catastrophe “Strikingly perceptive.” –Jenny Offill, author of Weather “Beautifully rendered and bracingly honest.” –Jenny Odell, author of How to Do Nothing Warmth is a new… Continue reading
Epstein Troy Barile-Simleness 06/02/26 (whowhatwhy.org) Getting closer to the rot The files still matter, but the people around them started to matter more. Sarah Kellen Gave Congress Three New Names Sarah Kellen, Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime assistant and one of the women named as a potential co-conspirator in the 2007 nonprosecution agreement,… Continue reading
by Steve Early on June 1, 2026 (BeyondChron.org) The Rise of a Socialist Mayor Forty-five years ago, a socialist, who previously couldn’t get elected dog catcher in Vermont, walked into his state’s largest city hall and claimed the office of mayor by a landslide margin of ten votes. Chiasson’s Bernie for Burlington: The Rise… Continue reading
Ecocivilization: Making a World that Works for All Jeremy Lent “One of the greatest thinkers of our age” (The Guardian) presents a new way of living—one modeled on nature’s design instead of capitalism’s—for fans of Guns, Germs, and Steel and Doughnut Economics It has often been said that it is easier to imagine… Continue reading
