Jonah Raskin

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

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

More Mural Fever in San Francisco: Arnautoff Controversy Goes Viral

My Exodus From the Northern California Fires

What Evil Empire?

Into the Marijuana Future: A Day On a Mendocino Pot Farm

Uncensored Tony Serra: Consummate Criminal Defense Lawyer

PG&E Free: Revolutionary Energy at Stone Edge Farm in Sonoma, California

Woodstock Nation Revisited: Abbie Hoffman, Joan Baez and the Culture Vultures of Capitalism

David Horowitz’s Hate Group, Civil War and the White House   

Melville Our Contemporary

Why I Write Murder Mysteries

A Whale of a Time on the California Coast

Paul Krassner, 1932-2019: American Satirist 

NORML’s Deputy Director Paul Armentano Speaks Volumes

Reflections on Abbie Hoffman and Joshua Furst’s Novel, Revolutionaries

Organic California 2050: Bob Cannard’s Crusade for a Toxic Free State

‘69 and All That Weird Shit

Big Man Looks Back at Little Boy: Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s Last Book

How Legal Cannabis Came to Contra Costa County

Allen Ginsberg’s 1956 Poem “America”: a Lost Ending

The French (Bread) Connection in a Bourgeois California Town

Frightwig: 1980s SF Punk Band Still Feminist & Sassy

The Public Library: Antidote to Everyday American Banality

Guy Standing on Anxiety, Anger and Alienation: an Interview About “The Precariat”

Three Days in LA: Tales of a Reluctant Tourist

The Muckraking Novelist Dashiell Hammett: A Red Literary Harvest

Mitchel Cohen Takes on Global and Local Goliaths: Profile of a Lifelong Multi-Movement Organizer

Chesa Boudin: A Radical Child of the Criminal Justice System Seeks to Reform the San Francisco DA’s Office

Disposable Man Gets His Balls Back

Love in a Cold War Climate

Walking on the Aussie Wild Side: The Counterculture Down Under with Michael Wilding

Fuck You, Dying American Empire: Reflections of an Aging Anti-Imperialist

MLK Day Today: The Legacy of the Man and the Myth 

Doris Lessing: What’s There to Celebrate?