Michael Moore has been making political documentaries for almost thirty years now. While his targets typically vary on a film-by-film basis—Roger & Me (1989): globalization; Bowling for Columbine (2002): gun violence and the peculiarly American fetishization of... Read More

On November 18, 1978, over 900 members of the Peoples Temple, a multiracial church with Pentecostal origins, died in a Guyana jungle settlement named after the church’s white founder, the Reverend Jim Jones. On that... Read More

Well then, it’s settled. There will be no death for you who have accepted fiction over fact and value culture over the cultivation of knowledge— which will go on separating the wheat from the chaff,... Read More

BOOK BY TA-NEHISI COATES SPIEGEL & GRAU; 2015 176 PP.; $24.00 The Black Lives Matter movement confused me at first. I didn’t understand why so many black Americans were so angry. But then I remembered... Read More

BOOK BY SIKIVU HUTCHINSON INFIDEL BOOKS, 2015 325 PP., $10.95 Sikivu Hutchinson heads Black Skeptics Los Angeles and is a social justice activist as well as the author of several nonfiction books on race, religion,... Read More

BOOK BY RICK HELLER NEW WORLD LIBRARY, 2015 288 PP.; $15.95 The very short review of Rick Heller’s Secular Meditation: If you’re curious about secular meditation and mindfulness, there’s finally a book for you. And... Read More

This week’s poem is by AshlieRene Gonzalez, a twenty-four-year-old, Oregon-based international traveler, photographer and cinematographer. Her lucid poetry and writing, frequently paired with imagery, is a truthful reflection of a twenty-first century freethinker, living in,... Read More