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    Book Review: ‘The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics’

    by Megan Wildhood | May 2nd, 2018
    Author Mark Lilla reflects on how identity politics fractures the Left
    Illustration by Jon Williams, Real Change

    I had thought the malaise of relentlessly focusing on identity was just me. That only I was feeling like an ant under a magnifying glass in the sun, and occasionally like the person holding the glass. That gaining a robust understanding of what it means to be the race, gender, age, economic status I am, and having the sexual and gender orientation I have was not only not doing anything about the problems that scared me the most in the world, but were maybe making them worse.

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    Book Review: ‘No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age’

    by Mike Wold | April 18th, 2018
    Jane McAlevey's ‘No Shortcuts’ exposes the flaws in the political left’s organizing

    “No Shortcuts” was first published a month before Donald Trump was elected president, but that doesn’t really matter in terms of its analysis and conclusions. In some ways it’s better that author Jane McAlevey doesn’t need to reference the disastrous swing of the federal government to the right reinforced by Trump’s election. She doesn’t need to argue against the liberals who would just as soon write off people who voted for Trump or didn’t vote at all; nor does she need to excuse those voters for their choices.

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    Book Review: 'Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice'

    by Susan Storer Clark | April 11th, 2018
    In its fourth edition, Paul Kivel's ‘Uprooting Racism’ is still a useful tool for change
    Illustration by Jon Williams, Real Change

    “Uprooting Racism” is not a pleasant read for a White person. But stick with it, because the book provides a clearly written analysis of the institutional racism in our society and the damage it creates, then gives a series of simple exercises and practical strategies for dealing with it. Author Paul Kivel  acknowledges that many White people find it difficult to read about racism, saying that we need to keep going back to the task of confronting and uprooting it, no matter how uncomfortable, angry or frustrated we become in the process.

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    Book Review: ‘A World of Three Zeros: The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions’

    by Megan Wildhood | April 4th, 2018
    Nobel Prize-winning economist Muhammad Yunus attempts to give a helping hand to the poor while fixing both the economy and the environment

    “It’s important to start with the realization that poverty is not caused by poor people.” Let me rephrase Muhammad Yunus, author of “A World of Three Zeros,” since this is important: blaming poor people for being people, as is acceptable in our culture, needs to stop.

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    Book Review: 'At Play in the Lions’ Den: A Biography and Memoir of Daniel Berrigan'

    by Joe Martin | March 28th, 2018
    Father Daniel Berrigan’s memoir documents his dedication to peaceful civil disobedience
    Illustration by Jon Williams, Real Change

    In a parking lot outside a Selective Service Office, a batch of hastily pilfered draft files has been doused with homemade napalm and set alight. Instructions for making the napalm — a concoction of kerosene and Ivory Soap flakes — had been found in a Green Beret manual on a shelf at Georgetown University Library. The scene unfolds in Catonsville, Maryland, on May 17, 1968. Nine people have just raided the office. They stand around the flames awaiting arrest in prayer and protest against the Vietnam War. Two of the assembled are Catholic priests, brothers Daniel and Philip Berrigan.

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    Book Review: 'What’s Yours Is Mine: Against the Sharing Economy'

    by Mike Wold | March 21st, 2018
    Are Airbnb, Uber and TaskRabbit working? Author Tom Slee takes a look at the efficacy of the economy of common space
    Illustration by Jon Williams, Real Change

    Readers of Real Change are probably well aware of some of the difficulties with the so-called “sharing economy,” best exemplified by Airbnb, Uber and Lyft, which grew exponentially from humble beginnings. Tom Slee’s “What’s Yours Is Mine” is more than a detailing of the negative impacts of these companies; it takes a look at the Silicon Valley philosophy of “open sharing” for profit and shows how money-making and sharing of common space are ultimately incompatible.

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    Book Review: “The End of Policing”

    by Mike Wold | March 14th, 2018
    How have we evolved to our current state of policing? And can it be fixed?
    Illustration by Jon Williams, Real Change

    It’s been almost four years since the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown galvanized a nationwide movement against police violence, particularly violence against Black men. As Alex Vitale notes in “The End of Policing,” “The recent killings of so many unarmed black men ... have pushed the issue of police reform onto the national agenda.”

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    Book Review: 'The Vanishing American Corporation: Navigating the Hazards of a New Economy'

    by Megan Wildhood | February 14th, 2018
    According to Gerald Davis, corporations are in decline
    Illustration by Jon Williams

    If you’re feeling shut off from the workforce, meaningful career advancement, or the ability to find a tolerable, livable-wage job and you feel you are to blame for it, you might be a millennial. This book does a good job of explaining why. (Spoiler alert: It’s actually not your fault.)

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    Book Review: 'Kids These Days'

    by Megan Wildhood | February 7th, 2018
    Generation Screwed: Malcolm Harris validates the notion that millennials are facing a far worse existence than other recent generations
    Illustration by Jon Williams, Real Change

    If you’re a millennial, which Malcolm Harris defines as a person born between 1980-2000 (that’s me and Harris), this is a great book to give to that baby boomer in your life who has jumped on the millennial-bashing bandwagon. Boomers may not understand it, they may roll their eyes and mumble something about “uphill both ways in the snow” when they were our age, or they may not even be interested in learning about how different the world their kids are growing up in is from, say, 1970.

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    Book Review: 'Hypercapitalism: The Modern Economy, Its Values, and How to Change Them'

    by Mike Wold | January 31st, 2018
    A psychologist and artist pair up to explain economic happiness
    Illustration by Larry Gonick, co-author of "HyperCapitalism"

    Does money bring happiness? Psychology professor Tim Kasser and cartoonist Larry Gonick team up in this nonfiction graphic book to make the case against money — or at least that the basic values behind our “hypercapitalist” economy — materialism, status and power — are not the ones that are most associated with happiness across the world.

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