“A judge ruled Tuesday that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger illegally declared an emergency in California’s crowded prisons and transferred inmates to other states.” … Read More »

When it comes to murder, Kate Atkinson believes that women are experts and men are bunglers. Her good guy, Jackson Brodie, is an ex-detective who gets regularly beat up and stabbed by the bad guys, wrongly arrested by the police and dumped by his girlfriend. You can imagine what Kate Atkinson does with bad guys. Women, as murderers, have become good at the game because they have been treated so … Read More »

The fear of fascism increased in the United States during the 1930s when it was still possible to openly admire Mussolini and Hitler as strong leaders who made the trains run on time. Chris Hedges wants to bring back that fear, and for good reason. A radical religious movement known as dominionism wants to impose a tyrannical theocracy on America. Hedges argues that liberals and other targeted groups of dominionists … Read More »

When he was twenty seven, and a few years before he died in a boating accident after visiting Byron, Shelley wrote the poem, Love’s Philosophy. “Nothing in the world is single,” he wrote, opening our hearts to the immanence of love. The Great Romantics is filled with 1,019 excuses to stop everything you are doing to read poetry. Valentine’s Day comes only once a year; but as Shelley writes, there … Read More »

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