Culture Watch

Jo Ann Heydron 11-01-2000
The consequences of globalization.
Danny Duncan Collum 11-01-2000

In the 19th century, with much sweat and blood, immigrant labor gangs pushed a railroad across the newly continental United States.

Duane Shank 11-01-2000
Weaving social engagement and spiritual practice.
Kimberly Burge 11-01-2000
Subtle details and weighty matters abound in Dar Williams' songs.
Ian Frazier's On the Rez
Chris Byrd 9-01-2000
Seeing the gospel in new ways.
Sara Wenger Shenk 9-01-2000

The big hearts of small friends.

I heard it in passing on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered one afternoon; it was a blurb for an upcoming story.

Rose Marie Berger 9-01-2000

A training manual in nonviolent revolution.

Julie Polter 9-01-2000

Bill Moyers on dying in America.

Julienne Gage 9-01-2000

Reflections on Cuba's past---and future.

Elizabeth Newberry 9-01-2000

Affrilachian Poets claim the space between two worlds.

The Editors 7-01-2000
New books worthy of note
David Sheild 7-01-2000
Resisting the pull of McWorld
Chris Byrd 7-01-2000
Jim Hightower skewers 'corporatocracy.'
Ann McClenahan 7-01-2000
The complexities of 'simple living.'
Rose Marie Berger 7-01-2000
It does a body good.

Family and community at the Bruce Springsteen show.

For the past 25 years, executions have taken place somewhere in America almost every week. They happened in the dead of night.

Elizabeth Newberry 7-01-2000

What is the proper role of the filmmaker?