Extortion

Peter Schweitzer’s shocking and rousing study of bipartisan disgrace investigates “How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes, and Line Their Own Pockets”.

The Art of Science

November 25: “Maybe the thoughts we generate today and flick around from mind to mind…are the primitive precursors of more complicated, polymerized structures that will come later…”  

The Free Word

November 23: “What should ye do then, should ye suppress all this flowery crop of knowledge and new light sprung up and yet springing daily in this city, should ye set an oligarchy of twenty ingrossers over it…”  

Respect Yourself

Anyone who has ever danced alone in their pajamas to the soul-stirring music of Booker T. & the M.G.s or a dozen other phenomenal groups on the Stax label will take feverish delight in this history of the trend-setting record label.