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  • Trouble in Paradise: Radicalizing Our Libraries

    Trouble in Paradise: Radicalizing Our Libraries11

    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. Jorge Luis Borges From the bookmobile that used to park weekly on our street in tiny Boonville, North Carolina to the library stacks of my college and graduate school years, libraries have always felt like a second home to me. If I drive

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  • Serf or Slave? The Tax Man Cometh

    Serf or Slave? The Tax Man Cometh1

    On April 13th I sent a whopping check to the federal government and a lesser one to the government of Virginia. The total of these two checks equaled about 25 percent of my income. Throw in sales tax on food and goods, the tax on gasoline and heating fuel, the property tax I pay through

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