recent posts
- Channeling Collective Fury into Fat Justice Is the Transformational Power We Need: Part 2
- Channeling Collective Fury into Fat Justice Is the Transformational Power We Need: Part 1
- Our Dizzying, Repeating Cycles of Cultural Amnesia Around Sex Ed: Part 2
- Our Dizzying, Repeating Cycles of Cultural Amnesia Around Sex Ed: Part 1
- We’ll Be Hiding from the Rainfall for These Beacon Beach Reads
about
Category: Activism
-
Maria J. Kefalas is the author, with Patrick J. Carr, of Hollowing Out the Middle: The Rural Brain Drain and What It Means for America. Kefalas held positions at the Brookings Institution, the University of Pennsylvania, and Barnard College before joining the faculty of Saint Joseph’s University, where she is associate professor of sociology. With…
-
Meredith Hall's Without a Map continues to resonate with readers. A Q&A with homeschooling expert Robert Kunzman addresses some of the criticism his book has received from conservative bloggers. Kathryn Joyce uncovers the dark side of Christian adoption agencies. The Ethicurean looks at Nancy Gift's A Weed by Any Other Name (Gifted posted here today).…
-
The author of Write These Laws on Your Children explains the connection between homeschooling and delay in the US ratification of a UN treaty to protect children.
-
A look at recent evictions in a neighborhood in East Jerusalem, and Israeli efforts to “Judaize” the city.
-
Poverty and homelessness do not mean that books are pushed aside: a love of reading endures in the face of adversity.
-
What does a Supreme Court Case about animal cruelty have to do with booksellers? Chris Finan explains the free speech issues at stake in U.S. v. Stevens.
-
We invite Da Capo press author and Boston Globe reporter Brian MacQuarrie to talk about his new book, The Ride.
-
Midwife Patricia Harman looks at her hometown, where the relatively unemployment figures belie the financial struggles her patients face.
-
Farnoosh Moshiri watches the violence in her native Iran from afar.
-
Katherine Newman discusses America’s working poor.
Beacon Broadside 