It’s a hot quiet weekday morning in Falls City, Oregon, which is more of a town than a city, at least by the standards of…
Posts published by “Jonah Raskin”
It’s the eighth day of Hanukkah, known as the “festival of lights,” and I’m sitting at home hoping for a miracle that won’t happen. The…
I’ve been writing about the Sixties again recently and have been finding that there’s always more to be said about that era that’s usually linked…
Censorship works. It prevents books, ideas and authors from circulating and reaching the public. But censorship is never a long term or permanent solution. Ideas…
The Osage called the war that was waged against them in the 1920s a “Reign of Terror.” The terrorists were all white men—white settlers, white…
I’d been hearing and reading about it for a couple of years and then finally it hit me. I took it personally, though I also…
Art and art galleries are two wonders of The City, my friends North of the Golden Gate tell me. That's true for me. When Anne…
The author of eleven volumes of poetry, including most recently, In a Few Minutes Before Later, Brenda Hillman has won numerous awards, such as the…
“I am not now, nor have I ever been…” If you grew up in the 1950s, as I did in a lefty American family, the…