Tag Archives: Jonah Raskin

BOOKS / Jonah Raskin : Al Sandine’s ‘Taming of the American Crowd’

Posted on March 18, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

The Cyber Crowd:Reinventing the Crowd for the Age of Cyberspace By Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog / March 18, 2010 [The Taming of the American Crowd: From Stamp Riots to Shopping Sprees, By Al Sandine. (Monthly Review Press, November … Continue reading →

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Jonah Raskin : Google Is Not God

Posted on March 3, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Illustration © 2007 by Stuart Brown / Modern Life.Google is not God:Whatever happened to privacy in America? By Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog / March 3, 2010 Google often seems to be all-powerful, and as omniscient as God himself … Continue reading →

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Afghanistan : Telling the Wolves from the Sheep

Posted on February 23, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

It all started in Rhode Island…They shoot Americans, don’t they? To expect that they won’t be shot at is an example of that sort of American innocence that has worn awfully thin after centuries of American invasions of other countries. … Continue reading →

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Jonah Raskin : Yippie Jerry Rubin’s ‘Do It!’ Turns Forty

Posted on January 31, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Image by rhpepsi1 / Amazon.com.Do It! does it:Jerry Rubin’s Yippie classic makes it to 40 By Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog / January 31, 2010 Jerry Rubin, the youthful Yippie who turned into a middle aged Yuppie, didn’t coin … Continue reading →

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BOOKS / Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power

Posted on January 26, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Who wants yesterday’s papers?Today’s biographers and cultural critics! By Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog / January 26, 2010 [Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power, by James McGrath Morris. Published by HarperCollins, February 2010; hardcover, 576 pp; $29.99.] … Continue reading →

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BOOKS/ Jonah Raskin : Michael Pollan’s ‘Food Rules’

Posted on January 9, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

We can decide what we want to eat!Michael Pollan: America’s new Food CzarBy Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog / January 8, 2010 [Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual, by Michael Pollan. (Penguin, Trade Paperback, December 29, 2009, 112 pp, $11.00.] … Continue reading →

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BOOKS / Jonah Raskin : Chinua Achebe’s ‘British-Protected Child’

Posted on January 4, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Chinua Achebe’s sharp and inspiring essays:The Education of a British-Protected Child By Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog / January 4, 2010 [The Education of a British-Protected Child: Essays, by Chinua Achebe. (Knopf, October 6, 2009, 172 pp., $24.95)] Here’s … Continue reading →

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Jonah Raskin on Obama Speech : Woefully Ignorant

Posted on December 11, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Barack Obama in Oslo. Photo from CBS.An open letter to President Obama:Your speech was a betrayal of American ideals By Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog / December 11, 2009 Dear President Obama: I read your Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance … Continue reading →

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Jonah Raskin : 40 Years Later: The Assassination of Fred Hampton

Posted on November 29, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Black Panther leader Fred Hampton in 1969. Photo by Paul Sequeira.I will never forget…The assassination of Fred Hampton I protested in New York with hundreds of other people, all of us outraged… I was arrested and beaten on 51st Street … Continue reading →

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Jonah Raskin : Fear and Loathing without Hunter S. Thompson

Posted on November 2, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Gonzo man: Hunter S. Thompson. Illustration by Ralph Steadman / The Badger.Where is Hunter S. ThompsonNow that we need him? At times he could he cynical and depressed, but he also had clarity of vision and a commitment to tell … Continue reading →

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Jonah Raskin : Red Bard: ‘The Poems of Mao Zedong’

Posted on January 18, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

If I had to compare Mao to an American I’d say he was akin to Whitman, though I’d add that Whitman’s lines are longer, that the rhythms feel different and the voices aren’t the same. Mao is never as tender … Continue reading →

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