Jonah Raskin
What’s a “Western”? Jane Campion’s “The Power of the Dog”
January 14, 2022“I Think of Myself as Attached to California:” Interviewing Joan Didion
December 24, 2021Embracing Che: The Man Behind the Myth
December 22, 2021Water and Power in California
December 3, 2021Housing and the Homeless in Berkeley
November 12, 2021Cry the Beloved Country: The Roots Poetry of Tijan M. Sallah
October 29, 2021Heart of Darkness: Che Guevara’s Congo
October 25, 2021Another Shit Storm in Berkeley
October 15, 2021The Winds of Sixties Change
October 8, 2021George Jackson: His Liberating Reading List and His Legacy
September 10, 2021Who Made the Sixties? The People or the Celebs?
July 12, 2021Liberation and Reaction in the Big Apple
June 29, 2021The Wretched of the Earth at 60
June 23, 2021The World According to Satyajit Ray
June 16, 2021Edward Said’s Palestine, Revisited
May 18, 2021Bob Fass and Revolutionary Radio: the Man and the Medium
April 29, 2021From Bach to Mao: Orville Schell’s Cultural Revolution
April 23, 2021Ken Burns’ and Lynn Novick’s “Hemingway”
April 18, 2021Ratner for the Defense: the Legacy of a Lefty Lawyer
April 9, 2021Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Big Red Book
April 2, 2021Richard Nixon, Jews, and Marijuana
March 30, 2021Kids and Cannabis today
March 8, 2021What Lawrence Ferlinghetti Means to Me
February 26, 2021Notes on Black History Month, 2021: No More Black Messiahs, Please
February 23, 2021Alexander Hamilton Meets RBG and the Supremes
February 11, 2021Rennie Davis: Not the Boy Next Door
February 10, 2021Isolatoes: From Natty Bumppo to the Proud Boys
February 5, 2021My Housemate is Missing: Dementia in the Time of the Pandemic
January 29, 2021Mob v. Crowd: the Mass Psychology of Madness
January 21, 2021Steve Talbot’s Cinematic Anti-War Hymns: Leave it to Beaver Actor Goes Behind the Camera
January 15, 2021Uncouth Uncoup Televised
January 12, 2021The Real Chicago 8 Movie: R.G. Davis Gets it Right
January 4, 2021Not E. P. Thompson’s People; Or, Life at Fuckingham Palace: On The Crown Seasons Three and Four
December 28, 2020Uncrowning The Crown
December 18, 20202020: The Last American Election, or the Start of Something New?
December 15, 2020On to the Inauguration, Please
November 24, 2020Trump: the King of Denial and a Savvy Saboteur
November 18, 2020Eat the 2020 Election
November 13, 2020November 4, 2020: the First Day of Rest of Your Life
November 3, 2020