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Learning Curves

By Kara Jesella, Nerve.com. May 19, 2005.
Media and Technology: Our Bodies, Ourselves helped illustrate that women could march on Washington, fight the inadequacy of the health-care system, and still fantasize about being spanked.

Escape from 'Ecotopia'

By Pat Joseph, Grist.org. May 14, 2005.
Environment: Revisiting the 1970s eco-cult classic that gripped a nation.

R. Crumb in Heaven

By Brendan Bernhard, LA Weekly. May 12, 2005.
Media and Technology: The quick-witted and articulate curmudgeon is facing his golden years -- but he's still got a few tricks up his sleeve.

The Uses and Abuses of Race

By Phyllis Eckhaus, In These Times. May 12, 2005.
Rights and Liberties: If race did not exist, the powers-that-be would have had to invent it. Three new books examine the divide between the Us and the Other.

Whiteness Visible

By Scott Thill, AlterNet. May 6, 2005.
Media and Technology: Adam Mansbach's novel interrogates the idea of white privilege via the character of Macon, who considers himself the downest white boy ever.

The Plot to Elect Kerry

By Craig Aaron, In These Times. May 4, 2005.
Media and Technology: A new book detailing the left's attempt to bring down the president by, gasp, voting him out, is unfortunate -- the left could really benefit from a serious critique from the other side.

Flathead

By Matt Taibbi, New York Press. April 25, 2005.
Media and Technology: New York Times columnist Tom Friedman's latest book on Globalization is a battle between twisted logic and atrocious writing.

A Spanking Shame

By Matt Taibbi, AlterNet. April 15, 2005.
Media and Technology: Do you really want to buy Matt Taibbi's new book that documents his drug-laced adventures as a flailing campaign reporter? He doesn't think so.

Da Vinci Code Turns Two

By Glenn Michael McDonald, PopMatters. April 13, 2005.
Media and Technology: What exactly is True in the mega-hit that spawned a cottage industry?

Whatever-ville

By Marah Eakin, WireTap. April 8, 2005.
WireTap: 'The Road to Whatever,' attempts to address the so-called epidemic of checked-out, drug-taking middle-class teens, but it doesn't go far enough in advocating for wider cultural change.

Sports, Sex and Eternal Youth

By Steven Beitler, DRCNet. March 28, 2005.
DrugReporter: A cultural history of synthetic testosterone deepens connections between the war on drugs and the effort to make elite sports drug-free.

Raging for the Machine

By Scott Thill, AlterNet. March 25, 2005.
Media and Technology: In Brian K. Vaughan's 'Ex Machina,' the comic book hero paradigm is turned upside down – a gay mayor of New York dealing with rather more real – but no less heroic – situations.

Lipstick Jihad

By Ann Marlowe, LA Weekly. March 22, 2005.
Media and Technology: Azadeh Moaveni's memoir of 'growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran' focuses on sexual politics of both cultures.

The Coast of Bohemia

By Jay Walljasper, Ode. March 3, 2005.
Media and Technology: Is changing the world still hip? Two books that set out to chronicle the cutting edge of American culture give social change short shrift.

The Toxic Terror of Diamond, Louisiana

By Ruth Rosen, Dissent Magazine. February 21, 2005.
Environment: In one of the most remarkable tales ever told about the environmental justice movement, an African American community fought for, and won, the human right to breathe clean air.

Journeys With Jeffrey

By Ellen Komp, AlterNet. February 15, 2005.
DrugReporter: A treatment regimen of medical marijuana was the only thing that helped a 7-year-old boy overcome his behavioral problems and violent tendencies.

The Making of a Movement

By Rebecca Solnit, Tomdispatch.com. February 15, 2005.
Rights and Liberties: Adam Hochschild's new book is both a gripping history of a particular movement and a magnificent portrait of how activism works.

About a Book

By Nicholas Taylor, PopMatters. February 4, 2005.
Media and Technology: The new book by the author of 'High Fidelity' and 'About a Boy' is about...books.

A Bigot's Guide to American History

By Eric L. Muller, AlterNet. February 2, 2005.
Media and Technology: A new history of America questions everything from civil rights to the legality of the 14th Amendment. According to the NY Times it's the 8th most popular book in America.

Torturers' Tales

By Jeff Gillenkirk, AlterNet. February 2, 2005.
Rights and Liberties: A new book about the defendents at the Nuremberg Trials has chilling resonance to discussions of prisoner abuse today.

The Inquisition Strikes Back

By Jules Siegel, AlterNet. January 29, 2005.
Rights and Liberties: In 'Guantanamo: What the World Should Know,' it's hard to say which is more disgusting, the descriptions of the torture or the bone-chilling analyses of how the president gave himself the powers of an absolute military dictator.

For Your Eyes Only

By Ed Rampell, AlterNet. January 7, 2005.
Movie Mix: A blacklisted screenwriter takes a look at the Reds-under-the-beds Cold War hysteria, documenting his years under FBI surveillance.

The Legacy of Judicial Activism

By Stephen Pomper, Washington Monthly. December 16, 2004.
Rights and Liberties: Why the Rehnquist Court has done so little damage, so far.

From Dylan to the Blacklist

By Mike Miliard, Boston Phoenix. December 13, 2004.
Media and Technology: Al Aronowitz says the '60s wouldn't have been the same without him. Now the 'Blacklisted Journalist' who's found an outlet on the Internet looks back from his cluttered New Jersey apartment.

The DeLay Transformation

By Jamie Malanowski, Washington Monthly. November 30, 2004.
Election 2004: Tom DeLay has not merely maximized the powers of his office; he's not merely the model of the modern martinet; he has eliminated all the customary checks on his power.

Tour of Beauty

By Christina Larson, Washington Monthly. November 30, 2004.
Media and Technology: A new book details a hundred years in the arms race to acquire newer, better weapons of cosmetic enhancement.

Tribal Warfare in America

By Rick Perlstein, Columbia Journalism Review. November 16, 2004.
Media and Technology: A 30-year-old book by a progressive journalist finds that the passions of reformers can sometimes betray a contempt for the common sense of ordinary people. Sound familiar?

A Long Strange Trip

By Martin A. Lee, AlterNet. November 8, 2004.
DrugReporter: A sprawling cultural history of illicit drug use in post-WWII America sets out to tell the whole truth about forbidden pharmacological fruit.

New Graphic Novel Deals With Election Fraud

By Chinyere Tutashinda, WireTap. November 3, 2004.
WireTap: ONELOVE is a political movement dedicated to restoring decency to government, along with a respect for its citizens, by promoting programs designed to unify the country person by person.

A Few Good Words

By Christina Waters, AlterNet. October 27, 2004.
Media and Technology: A new book offers a provocative lens through which to reconsider words suffering from deft right wing manipulation.

The Enigma of Return

By Amitava Kumar, The Nation. October 5, 2004.
Media and Technology: In "Maximum City," Suketu Mehta discovers the Bombay of his past through the people who make up its present; he also gleans signs of what might be our global collective future.

Young Feminists Fight Back

By Jennifer L. Pozner, Women's Review of Books. October 2, 2004.
Rights and Liberties: A new anthology shows that not only is feminism alive and kicking, it's a key part of many different kinds of struggles for social justice.

Hiding Intelligence that Matters

By Laura Rozen, AlterNet. September 21, 2004.
World: Bob Graham's new book connects the dots between the Saudi government, a White House cover-up and the 9/11 attacks.

Kitty's Litter

By Matt Taibbi, AlterNet. September 15, 2004.
Media and Technology: Kitty Kelley's take on the Bush dynasty: consistently cold, calculating, predatory and unscrupulous, generation after generation. In other words, her book is a rollicking good read.

What Ailes Us

By James Warren, Washington Monthly. September 13, 2004.
Media and Technology: Are ideologues or market forces pulling the media to the right or is Fox's success just another example of niche-marketing?

The War on Civil Liberties

By Noah Leavitt, FindLaw.com. September 13, 2004.
Rights and Liberties: America's anti-terror laws have been more effective in restricting individual rights than in preventing terrorism.

Get Ready for the Peak Experience

By Kelpie Wilson, TruthOut.org. August 30, 2004.
Environment: Thanks to the collusion of industry, financial and government interests, the coming decline in oil production is portrayed as so impossibly far off in the future that there is no sense talking about it – but talk we must.

Bashing Bush Bashers

By Katha Pollitt, The Nation. August 30, 2004.
Media and Technology: Republicans are quick to recast any liberal criticism of George Bush as demonic howls of rage. It won't be any different this week in New York.

Shrooms: Not Just For Salad Anymore

By Kelly Hearn, AlterNet. August 29, 2004.
Environment: A visionary biologist says mushrooms are potent antiviral and antibacterial agents, as well as key boosters to the human immune system. They also might end up saving the Earth.

Greenhouse Gases Heat Up as a Commodity

By John Gartner, AlterNet. August 26, 2004.
Environment: Some forward-thinking American companies are voluntarily abiding by the Kyoto treaty and participating in the Chicago Climate Exchange, the first North American marketplace for trading greenhouse emissions.

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