poetry

Janie

Mary Ann Castle
Drawing on her many years working in human rights and public health, poet Mary Ann Castle offers a portrait of a woman whose homelessness is a form of suffering but also an occasion of enlightenment.

A Conversation With Susan Neiman About Left and Woke

Robert Kuttner The American Prospect
In their justified concern for inequalities of power, the woke often simply focus on power struggles rather than thinking about justice, which sometimes gets left by the wayside. If all you see in history is attempted progress that failed, you’ll find it hard to struggle towards progress in the future.

books

The Conflicted Soul of Modern Liberalism

Warren Breckman The New Republic
Tracing the history of an idea, the author charts liberalism’s two century Jekyll and Hyde existence as a credo on freedom and an ill-fitting defender of mass democracy.
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