Through decades of violence, derision, arrests, intimidation, our progressive ancestors never gave into despair and defeatism. We should take their example to heart.
AP | JAMEY KEATEN | Posted 11.23.2009 | World
PARIS — Albert Camus' children are torn about whether to allow the Nobel Prize-winning author's remains to be moved from southern France to Pari...
Danny Groner | Posted 09.17.2009 | Media
The acts of reading the newspaper and participating in conversation about current affairs are worth more to young college students than interpreting foreign works, no matter their messages.
Bernard-Henri Lévy | Posted 09.06.2009 | World
Am I right to say of today's Socialist Party that it is the "large corpse falling backward" that Jean-Paul Sartre has already diagnosed?
David Finkle | Posted 08.13.2009 | Living
Although her title is an eyebrow-raiser, Elizabeth Hawes knows what she's doing. With Camus, a Romance, her new and unconventional work, she isn't simply writing a biography.
Norman Solomon | Posted 07.08.2009 | World
There's plenty more media invisibility and erasure ahead for Afghan people as the Pentagon ramps up its war effort in their country.
Jason Mannino | Posted 02.09.2009 | Living
I ran into a friend at the gym last week. Originally from Switzerland, he has been living in Los Angeles for 20 years. Ten years ago he and his partne...
Paige Donner | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
The Sirens of Baghdad I read in one sitting. I could not put this book down. It is not harsh in a way that watching images of war on CNN are harsh. But it is painful in a way that impels you to ask, But wait! Aren't we all human?
Mike Lux | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics