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Category: Jim Heffernan

BOOK REVIEW: Listen, Liberal: or Whatever Happened to the Party of the People? –

Posted on February 25, 2023 by Editor

By Jim Heffernan This is a book I started reading 8 days after the 2020 election, once my shell-shock had dissipated.  It started a reading binge that has continued until the present…

BOOK REVIEW: Strangers in Their Own Land

Posted on February 23, 2023 by Editor

By Jim Heffernan This is Arlie Hochshcild’s 9th and latest book. It was a finalist for a National Book Award. It the result of 5 years research in rural Louisiana into the…

I’ve Been Thinking – The Cowboy Code

Posted on February 20, 2023 by Editor

By Jim Heffernan I’ve been thinking a lot about what it might take to bring more “niceness” back to our daily lives. That was the goal of the recently posted “Civility Pledge”…

BOOK REVIEW: I’m Still Here – Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

Posted on February 18, 2023 by Editor

By Jim Heffernan This month (February) is “Black History Month” and I chose this book because it represents a different take on the black experience. The book is a memoir of a…

I’ve been thinking … Join me & Sign the Pioneer’s Civility Pledge

Posted on February 12, 2023 by Editor

I’ve been thinking how talking politics has changed over the years, not for the better.  I can remember times when two people could have entirely opposite views and still have a civil,…

BOOK REVIEW: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Posted on February 3, 2023 by Editor

By Jim Heffernan “For all of us, becoming indigenous to a place means living as if your children’s future mattered, to take care of the land as if our lives, both material…

I’ve been thinking … FDR’s Spaceship & Second Bill of Rights

Posted on February 1, 2023 by Editor

By Jim Heffernan I was thinking about how I might articulate my personal moral and political philosophy in another way and, after a bit, this description jumped out. Both of my parents…

BOOK REVIEW: Dirt Road Revival – How to rebuild rural politics and why our future depends on it

Posted on January 31, 2023January 31, 2023 by Editor

By Jim Heffernan I’m an old man, and most of the books I read are written by people as old or older than me. This book’s authors, Chloe and Canyon, are barely…

I’ve been thinking … Three weeks and 39 mass shootings. This is America in 2023.

Posted on January 29, 2023 by Editor

By Jim Heffernan With headlines like this, how can I not think a lot about the havoc of guns in America.  The numbers are horrific.  There needs to be better words than…

I’ve Been Thinking … Debt Peonage

Posted on January 28, 2023 by Editor

By Jim Heffernan I’ve been thinking a lot about a term I’ve encountered recently. The term is “debt peonage” and the writer Thom Hartmann introduced it to me. Indentured servitude is a…

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