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Clarity Press recently published Joan Roelofs’ latest contribution to the movements for peace in the United States, The Trillion Dollar Silencer (TDS). She has been a peace activist all her life and a scholar who always worked to bridge the gap between activism and academia that despite that effort seems to have widened rather than

America’s dangerous quest to dominate the Pacific.

What they [regular people] need, and what they feel they need, is a quality of mind that will help them use information and to develop reason in order to achieve lucid summations of what is going on in the world and what may be happening within themselves… what may be called the sociological imagination. –

Fruchter, who passed away recently, was also a key figure in the New Left on both sides of the Atlantic.

One of my colleagues at the university where I once taught, a math professor and an avid reader of books, asked me what I thought was the greatest novel I had ever read. Without hesitation I named, “The Red and the Black” by Stendhal, a trailblazing...

World Insights: U.S. politicians insider trading a tip of the iceberg of systemic corruption-

Fordham University associate sociology professor and Vermonter Heather Gautney successfully exposes the excesses of capitalism in her harsh, well-researched takedown The New Power Elite. Her...

From the blog of Tony D. Senatore at The Times of Israel

 

Political dissent curdles in an anti-political society - the view of a Russian sociologist.