Whether we realize it or not, we all need a sense of community, a sense of belonging, a place to call home. A place that, no matter where else we find ourselves, 50 miles away or halfway around the globe, always calls us back to it. Even those of us who live in the atomized, hyperindividualistic […]
Archives for 2018
In Memoriam: Lowell May
Hard Crackers editor Lowell May died at his Denver home on the morning of December 19. Born in 1949, he grew up under harsh conditions on a farm near Lorimer, Iowa. He went to high school in Hampton, Iowa (class of 1967), where he played on the football team. He attended the University of Iowa […]
Get Out While You Can!”
“Can I get a ride to the State Store?” “Sure,” I said “Hop in.” Leon lives upstairs, mid-40s, Black, with an oversized head on a small frame, talkative and personable. He’s a Huntsville native and knows the region like the back of his hand; that makes him my go-to source for local information. Leon drives […]
Defining Hard Crackers: From the Editors
1. Modern American society is a ticking time-bomb where an impending social explosion is hinted at by everyday violence of all kinds— the abuse of children; physical and sexual attacks by men against women, against other men and against those who do not conform to conventional images of men and women; the mistreatment of animals; […]
You won’t believe this, but…
Exclusive: Dutch hospitals to drop U.S. body brokers, cite ethical concerns AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Two major Dutch hospitals say they will stop importing human body parts from American firms, which they have been doing without any regulation for a decade. The hospitals told Reuters in recent weeks they made their decisions on ethical grounds. The move comes […]
Something New for Revolutionary Politics
Kristin Ross, the author of two remarkable books–on the events of 1968 in France (May ’68 and Its Afterlives) and the Paris Commune of 1871 (Communal Luxury), has now written a provocative article on the “The Long 1960s and ‘The Wind from the West.’” The article appears in an issue of Crisis and Critique devoted […]