Saving Our Water, Our World in “Future Sea” – Chicago Review of Books

Our review of "Future Sea," by Deborah Rowan Wright.

[ad_1] Future Sea: How to Rescue and Protect the World’s Oceans delivers not only the promised “how” but also the reasons why we should safeguard the ocean from human activities. Advocate and researcher Deborah Rowan Wright outlines the critical link between the ocean’s health and our ability to mitigate global warming, the tremendous potential of … Read more

Class and Conversations in “We Need To Talk” – Chicago Review of Books

Class and Conversations in “We Need To Talk” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] Inequality may be as old as human society, but never has it been this extreme, quantifiable and remediable. We’ve seen everyone from the Pope to Bernie Sanders to Thomas Piketty break it down. In meme-speak, guillotine GIFs have been proliferating on Twitter since 2016. But COVID-19 has made the message irrefutable. The fallout from … Read more

Reclaiming Humanity from the Headlines – Chicago Review of Books

Reclaiming Humanity from the Headlines – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] American news junkies, preoccupied as they have been with domestic affairs, may only vaguely remember a story that made international headlines in the summer of 2016: Qandeel Baloch, nicknamed the “Kim Kardashian of Pakistan,” was murdered. Her brother openly admitted to strangling her, because she had dishonored the family name with her provocative videos … Read more