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The Privatization of Everything: How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back

By Donald Cohen and Allen Mikaelian. The New Press, 2021. 320 pages. $28.99/hardcover; $18.99/paperback (available in April); $27.99/eBook. This is…

Reviewed by J.E. McNeil

Data Action: Using Data for Public Good

By Sarah Williams. MIT Press, 2020. 312 pages. $39.95/hardcover; $24.99/eBook. The intended focus of Data Action is described on the…

Reviewed by Arthur David Olson and J.E. McNeil

J.E. McNeil

What value does a draft have?

I was surprised and troubled to see an article in Friends Journal that concludes that Quakers should, "demand that the…

J. E. McNeil

Contempt Is a Bitter-Tasting Word

Rebuilding community among people who do not agree.

J.E. McNeil

A Shared Future: Fostering Communities of Inclusion in an Era of Inequality

Edited by Christopher Herbert, Jonathan Spader, Jennifer Molinsky, and Shannon Rieger. Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University, 2018. 455 pages. $15.80/paperback; free PDF download available at jchs.harvard.edu/research/books.

Reviewed by J.E. McNeil

War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar and Peace Writing

Edited by Lawrence Rosenwald. The Library of America, 2016. 850 pages. $40/hardcover; $17.99/eBook. This is an ambitious book, and it…

Reviewed by J.E. McNeil

Looking for the Light to Lead

Thoughts on Quaker process.

J. E. McNeil

What Have We Done: The Moral Injury of Our Longest Wars

By David Wood. Little, Brown and Company, 2016. 291 pages. $28/hardcover; $14.99/eBook. “War is Hell.” —General William Tecumseh Sherman, 1879…

Reviewed by J.E. McNeil

Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right

By Jane Mayer. Doubleday, 2016. 425 pages. $29.95/hardcover; $17/paperback; $14.99/eBook. Recently I went to a celebration of one of the…

Reviewed by J.E. McNeil