A friend recommended to me Aldo Leopold's book A Sand County Almanac . For more information on Aldo Leopold, visit the Aldo Leopold Foun...

Meena Malik in February 25, 2022 MuslimMatters.org wrote a review of the series Becoming Muslim on the Spiritual Edge podcast . Hana Baba...

Greg Grandin 's thesis in Empire's Workshop Latin America the United States and the Making of an Imperial Republic  is that the USA ...

  Spencer Ackerman 's Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump aims to convince liberals to stop their...

  I remember attending an Asian Students Association meeting at the University of Virginia to hear from the guest lecturer Ronald Takaki , w...

I first heard of Maia Szalavitz from the Citations Needed Podcast episode 99,  The Cruel, Voyeuristic Quackery of Rehab TV Shows . Her book...

Marilyn Chase 's The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco is an easy-to-read, non-technical history of public h...

I attended a trade show in New Orleans or Baton Rouge a year or two after Katrina. There's plenty of down time at trade shows when I w...

Update: The full film is now available on YouTube for free! Video starts at 1:17. Border Bandits is a documentary and dramatization o...

This entry contains some quotes from Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption . Stevenson is one of the founder...

In Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America , Ari Berman describes the events which led to the passage of the...

The best source for information on Dorothy Day is the Catholic Worker website . These quotes are from the 1981 HarperCollins paperback...

I'm sharing a few thoughts on Margo Jefferson's Negroland: A Memoir . An idea which struck me was her insistence that contemplat...

How to Be Secular: A Call to Arms for Religious Freedom by Jacques Berlinerblau Mariner Books, Paperback, 9780544105164, 306pp. Publicat...

John Dewey (1859-1952) wrote Experience and Education in 1938, twenty-two years after his most famous work, Democracy and Education . In...

The Stanford Prison Experiment is a 2015 movie directed by Kyle Patrick Alvarez. It is based on Philip Zimbardo 's 1971 experiment wh...

This collection of short stories by the American writer  Kurt Vonnegut reflect his visceral disgust at war , which developed during his ...

This documentary film uses oral history to examine the lives of African-American Muslim women in Washington, DC primarily during the 1940s ...

The Holy Vote: The Politics of Faith in America by Ray Suarez is a good introduction to policy discussions with religious claims in the ...

Next time you hear somebody say, "Lincoln freed the slaves in 1865. If black people have problems today, it's their own fault,...