Author: Astra Taylor

Stories by Astra Taylor

Astra Taylor is a writer and documentary filmmaker. Her latest film is Examined Life: Excursions With Contemporary Thinkers, now available with a companion book, published by The New Press.

With a Billion People Living on Less Than $1 a Day, Is Buying Luxury Shoes Ethical?

Ethicist Peter Singer argues that it's pretty black and white when it comes to making choices about where you spend your money.
Posted on Aug 13, 2009, Source: The New Press

Whatever Happened to the Good Life?

Americans keep making less and spending more. That lifestyle is contributing to supersized debt and the decline of progressive politics.
Posted on Nov 2, 2007, Source: Adbusters

The '60s Are Gone, But One of Its Most Controversial Organizations Is Back

Since its fiery demise in 1969, there have been various attempts to revive Students for a Democratic Society. All such efforts failed ... until recently.
Posted on Mar 22, 2007, Source: AlterNet

Military Waste In Our Drinking Water

The U.S. military is poisoning the very citizens it is supposed to protect in the name of national security.
Posted on Aug 4, 2006, Source: AlterNet

Don't Steal This Book, Read It

The author of a novel about Vietnam-era radicals says you have to understand the '60s to make sense of the mess we're in today.
Posted on Jun 8, 2006, Source: AlterNet

How the Right Stole the '60s (And Why We Should Get Them Back)

Conservatives are winning the battle over how the 1960s are remembered. But their version is far from the truth.
Posted on May 19, 2006, Source: AlterNet