Making Rights Work: A Review of “The Human Rights Enterprise” By Cynthia Kaufman A few years ago, when California was…
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Making Beautiful Things Where Everyone Gains and No One Profits
By Cynthia Kaufman My friend Annette Aylward is trying to make a living as a crafts person. She makes beautiful…
The Fortress World of Capitalism vs. the Beautiful Possibilities of Cooperation
By Cynthia Kaufman Our beloved world is entering an increasingly unstable period, full of dangers and also full of possibilities.…
Bring Back Pell Grants for Prisoners
By Cynthia Kaufman When I was in working on my PhD in philosophy at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst,…
Anarchist Science Fiction: Essential Novels
Sharp and PointedThe See Sharp Press BlogOctober 24th, 2013 What exactly does “anarchist science fiction” mean? Stories written by anarchists?…
Take the Levites – Please!
by Ken WishniaOriginally posted on The Sirens of Suspense “Take the Levites—please!”–God, Numbers 8:6 (translated by Henny Youngman) To be…
On and On Do They Imprison the Strong
The dynamic power of so many prison memoirs, acounts, and anecdotes is paradoxically reliant on the monotony and stasis of…
What Do You Mean by Jewish Noir?
Guest Post by Kenneth WishniaOriginally published in Mystery FanfareDecember 1st, 2015 Jewish Noir, edited by Kenneth Wishnia, is a unique…
Babylon on the Hudson
Originally posted in Mystery Readers Journal Volume 32:2:New York City Mysteries II I come from a family of New Yorkers.…
What the Bible Really Says about Gay Marriage
OK, people, I was trying to hold off on this, but CBS Radio just broadcast another news report about Congressmen…