2015 in Review: Truthdig’s Books of the Year
Jan 1, 2016 A look back at some of our favorites from the reading stack.
Markets Cannot Solve the Climate Crisis
Dec 28, 2015 “Free range” capitalism is one of the causes of climate change, and it must be reformed if we are to solve the crisis, Andreas Malm writes in his new book, "Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming."
Your Boss Wants You to Be Happy. This Might Not Be a Good Thing.
Jun 12, 2015 In “The Happiness Industry,” English sociologist and economist William Davies examines the nefarious effects of the “science and measurement" practices that some bosses are using to influence their employees’ sense of happiness.
Paul Robeson: A Life
Apr 11, 2014 A new biography of Paul Robeson delves into his remarkable political activism, while revealing a pernicious social order determined to destroy its most effective and outspoken critics.
‘I Got Into Sex Work to Afford to Be a Writer’
Mar 16, 2014 Brooklyn journalist Melissa Gira Grant is one of the voices who has emerged in the last few years to defend the rights and dignity of people working in all parts of the sex industry. As her new book hits the shelves, she tells The Guardian about moving from sex work into journalism.
The Village Against the World
Nov 9, 2013 Nestled in farmland about 60 miles from Seville, Spain, is Marinaleda, a functioning utopia -- every villager has work and housing, mortgages are 15 euro a month, and foreclosures and police don't exist.Marinaleda, Spain, is a functioning utopia—every villager has work and housing, mortgages are 15 euro a month, and foreclosures and police don't exist.
How Schools Are Becoming Prisons
Mar 28, 2013 The school-to-prison pipeline is under fire for its over-the-top thuggishness, but officials are responding to massacres like the one in Newtown by pushing to make campuses more prison like. Bay Area journalist and author Annette Fuentes discusses the phenomenon she documented in her book "Lockdown High: When the Schoolhouse Becomes a Jailhouse."The school-to-prison pipeline is under fire for its over-the-top thuggishness, but officials are responding to massacres like the one in Newtown by pushing to make campuses more jail like.
The Making of Global Capitalism
Jan 31, 2013 Although Karl Marx discerned in the middle of the 19th century that a new class of capitalists was creating "a world after its own image," it took until the beginning of the 21st century before "a constantly expanding market" could be said to have fully spread capitalist social relations "over the entire surface of the globe," write Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin in their new book, "The Making of Global Capitalism."
Putting Christopher Hitchens on Trial
Jan 24, 2013 The dead, God-bashing, celebrity litterateur is the target of a new book that seeks to yank him down from the vaunted heights from which he shilled for the American empire and defamed its opponents, writes Gregory Shupak at In These Times.
Naked in the Halls of Empire
Feb 23, 2012 A plucky new author has arrived on the scene to take down one of establishment journalism’s most revered figures. Belen Fernandez discusses her new exposé on NYT columnist Thomas Friedman, “The Imperial Messenger.”
