Jonah Raskin

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

Notes on Black History Month, 2021: No More Black Messiahs, Please

Alexander Hamilton Meets RBG and the Supremes

Rennie Davis: Not the Boy Next Door

Isolatoes: From Natty Bumppo to the Proud Boys

My Housemate is Missing: Dementia in the Time of the Pandemic

Mob v. Crowd: the Mass Psychology of Madness

Steve Talbot’s Cinematic Anti-War Hymns: Leave it to Beaver Actor Goes Behind the Camera

Uncouth Uncoup Televised

The Real Chicago 8 Movie: R.G. Davis Gets it Right

Not E. P. Thompson’s People; Or, Life at Fuckingham Palace: On The Crown Seasons Three and Four

Uncrowning The Crown

2020: The Last American Election, or the Start of Something New?

SF’s New DA, Chesa Boudin, Battles Criminal Injustice System on Two Fronts 

On to the Inauguration, Please

Trump: the King of Denial and a Savvy Saboteur 

Eat the 2020 Election

November 4, 2020: the First Day of Rest of Your Life

Diane di Prima:  Poet of the Great American Counterculture

Jack London’s Martin Eden: On the Screen Again

Tragedy or Farce? Reflections on Aaron Sorkin’s “Trial of the Chicago 7”

Hydra Headed: San Francisco’s Untold History

Chile at a Crossroads, Chileans on the Move

What About the Chinese Red Army? A Reply to H. Bruce Franklin

Babylon Berlin / Babylon Amerikka

Chesa Boudin: Reformer in the San Francisco DA’s Office

America

Moral Crusader & Muckraking Novelist

Edward Sanders: Poetic Pacifist Up Next

My Adventures in the Matriarchy

Cold War Bully: the Life and Crimes of Roy Cohn

American Teens and the Insurrection of 2020: Caught Between Passion and Cool

Che, Chez and Ross Cannard: Organic Farming, Sonoma, California

Monster Capitalism

Michael McClure: Beat Poet and Playwright Helped Thaw Cold War American Culture

Feed Sonoma: Agricultural Cooperatives Will Help Save the World

Covering Corona: Manufacturing Panic, Generating Junk News and More

Reading Camus’ The Plague in a Time of Pandemic

My Life in the Plague

The Call of the Wild (2020): A Cinematic Fairy Tale for the Age of Environmental Disaster

Purgatory Under the Patriarchy

Shakespearean Veracity in “Vera”: the Working Class Cop Show from Bloody England

Homeless in Wine Country: Rick Boals’ Story

Terence Hallinan: Fighter for the People and for the Legalization of Marijuana 

Négritude in The Last Black Man in San Francisco

Get Zapped: Paul Krassner Electrocutes America

The Revolutionary Love Movement: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?

Street Fighting Man: The Night New York City Cops Beat Me Bloody

Rabbi Michael Lerner: The Pied Piper of Love

Black, Blue, Jazzy and Beat Down to His Bones: Being Bob Kaufman

Love and Death in the Age of Revolution