This is not a San Francisco gloom and doom story. There have been too many of them lately. San Franciscans feel sorry for themselves and…
Posts published by “Jonah Raskin”
Watching Steve Talbot’s new documentary, The Movement and the "Madman," reminded me of my own opposition to war, and also that over the past 75-years,…
Daniel Ellsberg, who recently announced that he has prostate cancer and doesn’t have much longer to live, sent out an email in which he wrote,…
“Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight,” Roy Orbison sang on his hit single that has never gone out of style. In the…
In a city that honors the new and newness, islands of the past disappear almost every day. In spanking new neighborhoods like Dogpatch, where glass…
To write her most recent novel, (2022; 549 pages; $32.50; Harper Collins) her tenth in the past 35 years, Barbara Kingsolver turned for inspiration to…
Looking at Richard Avedon’s black-and-white photos of the Chicago Seven which peered out at me in a recent issue of The New Yorker felt like…
In an obit published on February 7, 2023, The New York Times called David Harris “an unlikely avatar of the antiwar movement.” That’s a ridiculous…
For weeks the eyes of the world were focused on the Chinese balloon in the sky above the US, and then on the ocean where…
So long, Tom, it’s been an ordeal to watch you win so many Super Bowls and to set so many NFL records. It has been…
Time after time I tell myself I won’t travel to Mexico again. But time after time I return to Mexico. Once it takes root it’s…