Book Review: Power Hungry Christian Nationalists Continue to Scale the Commanding Heights of American Society (original) (raw)
Eleanor J. Bader
Eleanor J. Bader Sep 17
Talia Lavin’s second book provides a chilling look at the evangelical right’s steady progress in capturing the key strategic pillars of American society: Arts and entertainment, business, education, family, government, media and religion.
New Documentary Looks at ‘Housing First’ Homeless Shelter Model Across American Cities
Eleanor J. Bader Aug 19
Housing First offers a systemic response to homelessness that gives people a place to stay with no strings attached.
Prisons and the Pandemic: Enraging New Book Looks at How Incarcerated Americans Experienced COVID-19
Eleanor J. Bader Jul 24
Five people imprisoned in different parts of the country narrate what it was like to be trapped behind prison walls with no place to seek refuge during the deadly pandemic.
Book Review: How to be a Nonviolent Second-Wave Feminist
Eleanor J. Bader Jun 14
In 47 essays written from the early 1970s to the late 1990s, prominent Second Wave feminists question how nonviolence might be applied to effectively transform violent systems of aggression, from rape to war.
Book Review: For These Two Unlucky Lovers, The Journey Is The Path
Eleanor J. Bader May 24
The Other Side of Nothing is a beautifully presented examination of psychological pain.
Book Review: School Desegregation Setbacks and the Lessons Learned
Eleanor J. Bader May 3
Seventy years after the Supreme Court rejected school desegregation, exciting new ideas about how to overcome America’s racist legacy are percolating among educators, even as the promise of equality in public education remains unfulfilled.
Remembering Grandma: Art, Abuse and a Fraught Legacy
Eleanor J. Bader Apr 4
Touching the Art is part memoir, part social history, part political analysis. It’s also a highly personal and often painful account of abuse, neglect and denial.
Breaking with Zionism: A Matter of Conscience
Eleanor J. Bader Feb 16
A new movie by two young Jewish-American directors looks at how their generation is challenging Israel like never before.
Eleanor J. Bader Jan 30
A tale of how far we’ve come as a society and of what remains to be done to destigmatize, and ultimately normalize, hearing loss and other infirmities.
Movie Review: Roadmap to Apartheid Explores Parallels between South Africa and Israel
Eleanor J. Bader Dec 19, 2023
This 2012 documentary has become a go-to source for understanding the root causes of the Palestine-Israel conflict.