Jonah Raskin

Jonah Raskin is the author of Beat Blues, San Francisco, 1955.

Unfamiliar: the New World of Espionage

Ivy Meeropol’s Cinematic Celebration of E. Jean Carroll

Alexandre Dumas and His Revolutionary Novel “The Count of Monte Cristo”

A Cautionary Tale on the Dangers of Radical Movements and Ideologies

“Exterminate the Brutes”: From American Concentration Camps to Contemporary Imperialism

Everything that Rises Must Converge: Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises”

Jessica Mitford and Me

Little Big Brother at The Carlisle: Censorship at San Francisco Senior Living Facility

Strangers in a Strange Land: Dennis Walder and His Secret Jewish Mother

The Crisis Winter 2026

Strangers in a Strange Land: Dennis Waldman and His Secret Jewish Mother

A Cold Case Heats Up: The Townhouse Explosion 56 Years Later

Is Heathcliff Jewish? Emily Brontë’s Revolutionary Novel of Repression and Reversals

The Reinvention of a Famed American Bookstore and Its Founder

The New York Times’ Latest Snow Job: Tisch vs. Mamdani

Michael Klare: Radical Politics With Passion and Conviction

On the Language of Global Politics 

Adam Raskin, My Brother and Comrade, RIP

Jack London, Celebrity Socialist at 150

Poet Anne Waldman’s Star Turn

I Led Three Lives: College teacher, Pot Grower and Marijuana Journalist

The Political, the Personal and the Polemical: Eric Foner on Freedom

Anti-Imperialist Motherfucker

The Fate of Dying Empires: An Interview with Historian and Activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Freedom is a Constant Struggle

A Country for Old Men

All the Lonely People: On Gologorsky’s “Angle of Falling Light”

The Cold War According to Al McCoy

No Kings, No Empires: Thomas Jefferson, Ho Chi Minh & Declarations of Independence

Liberation and Cooptation, Repression and Resistance:  Reflections on the Sixties

L.A. is Burning

Mrs. Dalloway at 100: Virginia Woolf’s Modernist Masterpiece of Imperial Decline

Donald Trump and an Island Called Alcatraz

Memories of Vietnam: The War and the Peace

The Great Gatsby at 100: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Class Consciousness Masterpiece 

San Francisco’s Inimitable Artist, Richard “Luckey” Perri 

Columbia Alumni Talk Back to Trump

A Potent Protest in San Francisco,  5 April 2025

The Counterculture That Sprang From San Francisco

Growing Old in American Cities

Let Resistance Be the Order of the Day: MLK Day in San Francisco, January 19, 2025

Only a Pawn in Their Game: Notes on Rachel Kushner’s Creation Lake

The Abbie and Amy Show

Steve Wasserman: Berzerkeley Heretic

Christmas Carnage: Netflix’s Black Doves

Reflections on Pancho Villa and the Fall of Dictators

Report from a Campfire of the Resistance, San Francisco 2024

Photographer Consuelo Kanaga in Black and White: a Role Model for the Age of Trump

The Precarious Precariat and the Garrison State

How to Hide in the Age of Trump and Vance: An Eleven Step Program