Howard Lisnoff

Howard Lisnoff is a freelance writer. He is the author of Against the Wall: Memoir of a Vietnam-Era War Resister (2017).

The Big-Box Store Confrontation: Issues of War and Peace Among the Jeans

Police Violence and Mass Policing in the U.S.

George H.W. Bush and the Vietnam Syndrome

The Day I Almost Went to Prison for Life

In An Apartment in Brooklyn

The Right and Neoliberals Get Away With Murder Because They Can

The Advantages of an Elite Education

On Hallowed Ground: Guns at Kent State

The Beat Goes On Against Protest in Saudi Arabia

The Neoliberals Are Complicit in This Train Wreck

The Old Need Not Apply

Narcissism on the Left: the Cult of the Individual Leader

The Mass Media’s Outrage at Trump: Why the Surprise?

The Use and Misuse of Charity: the Luck of the Draw in a Predatory System

The Resegregation of New York City Schools 

Joe Lieberman Is More Than an Embarrassment to Me as a Jew

How We Got Sold on Endless Wars

Liberal Massachusetts and Recreational Marijuana

We Pissed Il Duce Off

I Don’t Recognize This Country Anymore

The Outrageous Level of Intolerance is Happening Everywhere!

The Empire Strikes Out

Back in the USSR? No, It’s Actually Back in the U.S.

So Far: Fascism Lite

For Whom the Bell Tolls: War, Peace and John McCain

Chaos or Community?

Number One in America

How James Comey Became the Strange New Hero of the Liberals

Gun Violence: Almost the Norm for Some

The Bone Spur in Chief

May 1968: Fifty Years Since the Catonsville Nine Action

Political Tribalism: Why the Right is So Successful

Minister of War

A Military Draft Will Return When the Ninth Circle of Hell Freezes Over

The 150th Commemoration of W.E.B. Du Bois’ Birth and His Letter to John F. Kennedy

The My Lai Massacre: Fifty Years Later

Impressions From the Women’s March

The Atomized and Siloed U.S. Left

The Immoral Misuse of Psychology in Support of Empire

Revolutionary and State Violence: The Chickens Always Come Home to Roost

Dustin Hoffman in the Gene McCarthy for President Campaign

The Rearguard Battles We Have Fought and Continue to Fight

A Real or an Inflated Threat?

Who You’re Likely to Meet (and Not Meet) on a College Campus Today

Not a Hollywood Ending

What Da F#%k Ever Happened to the Left?

Will the Military Throw the Book at Bowe Bergdahl?

Capturing the Flag

How I Never Learned to Stop Worrying and Always Hated the Bomb

The Great Communicator, Vietnam Syndrome and Another Mass Atrocity