Book Review: Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in Fractured America, by Beth Macy

Beth Macy, Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in Fractured America. Penguin Press, 2025. Reviewed by Trudy Goldberg In Paper Girl, Journalist Beth Macy–author of Dopesick, the best-selling investigation of the US opioid epidemic—turns her sharp eye to Urbana, her hometown in rural Ohio. About ten years ago, Macy started noticing some changes… Read More Book Review: Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in Fractured America, by Beth Macy

Levy Economics Institute 40th Anniversary Conference

by Cortney Sanders On May 8, the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College convened its annual conference marking 40 years since the Institute’s founding. The occasion drew a distinguished assembly of economists, journalists, and policymakers united by a shared conviction that conventional economics has consistently failed to reckon with the realities facing the global economy… Read More Levy Economics Institute 40th Anniversary Conference

LIBERATING THE FUTURE: 3-25 Virtual Panel and Town Hall Meeting to Discuss Jobs, Peace, and The Way Forward!

What will the future look like?  Who gets to decide? We’re living through extremely difficult and uncertain times.  The issues we now face are the predictable culmination of unrestricted neoliberalism, imperialism, corporate greed and impunity, the steady erosion of investment in public welfare, and the entrenchment of power and privilege along class lines: one set… Read More LIBERATING THE FUTURE: 3-25 Virtual Panel and Town Hall Meeting to Discuss Jobs, Peace, and The Way Forward!