Bill Littlefield
We should be grateful to Rus Bradburd for giving us an opportunity to laugh as the forces of marketing and ignorance steamroll — ominously and without sufficient kickback — across the academic landscape.
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Tony Kahn’s memory is extraordinary, and his talents as a writer, illustrator, and designer are prodigious.
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What Ian O’Donnell underlines so powerfully in “Prison Life” is the necessity of positive human interaction anywhere, including among incarcerated citizens.
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This collection of essays, excerpts, letters, and a few poems is a powerful and necessary tool for educating anyone willing to learn about — and confront — the injustice and hypocrisy of our country’s monstrous system of incarceration.
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The revolving cast members of the FTA road show were determined to reinforce the belief among members of the military that the Vietnam War was at best pointless and at worst criminally insane as well as murderous.
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The graphics in “The Warehouse” provide clear explanations of a grim reality. The U.S. leads the world at incarcerating its citizens.
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“Faraway the Southern Sky” is an extraordinary literary achievement because it makes real and present the scuffling life and education of the very young man who grew up to become Ho Chi Minh.
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The history of U.S. policy on immigration might charitably be described as shameful.
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Many of the circumstances and particular cases Debbie Hines discusses in “Get Off My Neck” are grim, even sickening. But her experience in the American justice system has taught Hines to choose hope and struggle over despair. And that is encouraging.
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Book Review: “Freeman’s Challenge” — Essential Reading on Prisons, Slavery, and Profit
The prison was the first in the nation specifically designed to generate a profit for everybody but the laborers.
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