The Rag Blog (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
John Brown depicted in detail from a mural by John Steuart Curray titled "Tragic Prelude," in the Kansas State Capitol in Topeka.Today's fanatic, tomorrow's saintIt's popular to think that the world gets changed by nice people, but the lives of activists past and present tell us otherwiseBy Rebecca Solnit / November 30, 2009The question: Is fanaticism always wrong?John Brown,...
Dialogic (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
... were arrested. On this 10th anniversary, we speak with two organizers of the protests: David Solnit, co-author of “The Battle of the Story of the Battle of Seattle” and Ananda Tan, of the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives. David Solnit, Direct Action Network organizer in Seattle. Co-author with sister Rebecca Solnit of “The Battle of the...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
... in our commitment to truth, to justice, to a better world. Religion Philosophy United States Rebecca Solnit guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
London Review of Books (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
Junk science might be too generous a label for the way conclusions have been reached about the water of the Colorado River. Without it, Arizona and southern Nevada would still be barely populated and a lot of the agriculture in the South-West wouldn’t exist. But the supply was always precarious and overcommitted, and it is already running out.
Hungry Hyaena (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
... . Sitting down for a hearty meal with friends and family this Thanksgiving evening, I recalled Rebecca Solnit 's inspiring Harper's Magazine article, " Detroit Arcadia " (July 2007). Solnit writes, "Detroit is a cautionary tale about one-industry towns: it shrank the way the old boomtowns of the gold and silver rushes did, as though it had been mining automobiles...
Janet Reid, Literary Agent (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
... Sandell (#306) discussing the fine line between truth and memoir and a charged colloquy with Rebecca Solnit (#312) , which revealed that her recent spat with Dan Baum was hardly limited to his inflexibility. Mr. Segundo, however, is more concerned with the unspecified relationship between humans and walls, and has become quite alarmed by the uncommon behavioral phenomenon of dissociative...
