Howard Lisnoff

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

Selling a Bill of Goods on PBS about the Vietnam War

The Streets: the Only Place Where Democracy Lives

Bakke, Fisher, Sessions, and the Future of Affirmative Action

The Endless Trench Warfare Endgame

Agape While Waltzing at the Precipice

Torture in the Service of the Nation

Who Elected the Wrestler-in-Chief?

Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are!

The Death of Democracy Both Here and Abroad and All Those Colorful Sneakers

The Spiritual Death of Ongoing War

Meet the New Party: Just About the Same as the Old Party

Protest in a Time of Great Danger

Whose Children?  A World that Cares Little for Civilian Victims of War

Pay No Attention to That Man Behind the Curtain

Comey: a New Hero of the Left?

Thrown Under the Bus Again?

More Than Rumors of War

Enough of Russia! There’s an Epidemic of Despair in the US

BDS, Women’s Rights, Human Rights and the Failings of Security States

It is Happening Here: Fascism as a Real Possibility in the US

Sessions, Pot and the Democratic Party on Drugs

Those Who Plan and Enjoy Murder

Take to the Streets, Again and Again

Still Licking Our Wounds and Hoping for Change

The Endless War: 15 Years and Counting in Afghanistan

What was Missing From The Nation’s Interview with Bernie Sanders

The Case of One Homeless Person

It Can Happen Here

Trouble in Political Paradise

Dr. Strangelove and Company at the Door of U.S. Power

Of War Resisters Then and Now

The War That Won’t Go Away

The Elephant in the Living Room

What We Need is More Law and Order… More Law and Order

To Protect and Serve

Of Kiddie Crusades and Disregarding the First Amendment in a Public Space

How to Keep a Revolution Going in a Political Ice Age

So Long, Champ! We’re Going to Miss You!

The Human Toll of War

Israel, a Palestinian State and Anti-Semitism

Father Daniel Berrigan, Anti-war Hero With a Huge Blindspot

Still the Litmus Test of Worth

The Case of Bowe Bergdahl: Military Justice in a Highly Charged Political Season

Political Beatings, Then and Now

Super Tuesday: “Snatching Defeat Out of the Jaws of Victory”

On the Road in the Sanders Campaign

The Political Landscape in the Real World

Can The Demands Of History Resolve the Kent State Massacre Controversy?

Reaping What We Sow

War Resistance and the Cowardice Slur