Category Archives: RagBlog

“Summer breeze makes me feel fine / blowin’ thru the jasmine of my mind.” Kat Braun tells us that the Summer Solstice — the longest day and shortest night of the year — is a time for contemplating Mother Earth’s … Continue reading →

In 1970, a jury convicted Robert Hillary King of a crime he did not commit and sentenced him to 35 years in prison. He became a member of the Black Panther Party while in Angola State Penitentiary, successfully organizing prisoners … Continue reading →

Yippie veteran turned law professor Raskin notes the attempt by Apple to censor a new comic book version of Joyce’s “Ulysses” for use on its iPad app, and sees it as part of a continuing and futile puritanical fear of … Continue reading →

Marx used to refer to what we now call the “economy” as “the political economy”, because he realized that economics is really built on the constantly shifting social foundation of culture and politics, and law derived from politics. The latter … Continue reading →

Environmental writer Wasserman takes the apocalyptic view of the BP oil spill and the potential for ever greater environmental destruction from oil drilling and from nuclear power plants. “It is suicidal,” he tells us, “to allow corporations to deploy technologies … Continue reading →

By Robert Jensen. Baylor’s Eagleman, neuroscientist and author who works in the space between the materialist and the mystic — “where anything’s possible” — may well become “the Carl Sagan of the brain, explaining the billions and billions of neurons … Continue reading →

As Arizona essentially makes racial profiling into state policy and outlaws the teaching of ethnic studies, we revisit John Steinbeck’s literary classic that follows the Joad family as they migrate to California during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s in … Continue reading →

Audience members listen to a translation through headphones as U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at Cairo University on June 4. Radio Free Europe. Saturday, June 5, 2010CONNECTING THE DOTS: THEORY AND HISTORYHarry Targ The Bewildering Array of Crises The magnitude … Continue reading →

Lefty John Ross, a former New York beatnik, has taken on a daunting task with his new history of Mexico City. Nobody has successfully told the story of this monster of a metropolis in one volume, but John effort is … Continue reading →