Howard Lisnoff

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

Try Not to Look Away

The False Prophets Cometh

We Need to Beat Our Own Swords Into Plowshares and Honor the Kent State Martyrs, the Wounded, and Their Families

“One, Two, Three Strikes, You’re Out…”

When War Crimes are Pardoned

They’re Just About Ready to Destroy Roe v. Wade

In Your Face Income Inequality

The Day People Disappeared and a New Strategy for Stealing Votes

Mental Health in the Time of Existential Threats

Loose Bullets and Loose Cannons

The Political Left is Bigger Than Imagined: Ask the Feds

Woodstock at 50

“Say It Ain’t So, Joe:” the Latest Neoliberal from the War and Wall Street Party

Want Your Kids to Make it Big in the World of Elite Education in the U.S.?

Trump’s Plot Against America: It Can Happen Here

Follow the Money to the Border Wall

Anti-Semitism, Racism, and Anti-immigrant Hate

The Mother of All Bombs: U.S. Foreign Policy

The Long Goodbye of Antiwar Protest 

Another Slugger from Louisville: Muhammad Ali

The Faux Political System by the Numbers

Nineteen Sixty-Nine: A Look Back at Protest

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