The Common Good

Robert Hirschfield

Robert Hirschfield is a New York City-based freelance writer.

Articles by Robert Hirschfield

In New York City, an activist group of homeless and formerly homeless people challenges the powers that be.

Orange Alert: Essays on Poetry, Art, and the Architecture of Silence. And, Fasting For Ramadan: Notes from a Spiritual Practice.

Finding connections between the past, present, and future at Occupy Wall Street.

Poet Meena Alexander and the shifting terrain of the migrant experience.

How the Israeli media cover the occupation