From An Anarchist's BookShelf
(monthly updates on must-read books for those who want to challenge current dogma about our world and what we can do about it)
A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn
Addressing his trademark reversals of perspective, Zinn--a teacher,
historian, and social activist for more than 20 years--explains, "My
point is not that we must, in telling history, accuse, judge, condemn
Columbus in absentia. It is too late for that; it would be a useless
scholarly exercise in morality. But the easy acceptance of atrocities
as a deplorable but necessary price to pay for progress (Hiroshima and
Vietnam, to save Western civilization; Kronstadt and Hungary, to save
socialism; nuclear proliferation, to save us all)--that is still with
us. One reason these atrocities are still with us is that we have
learned to bury them in a mass of other facts, as radioactive wastes
are buried in containers in the earth." 
sandy krolick, ph.d.
kulturCritic
studies cultural, philosophical and global
"I breathe, and it means I love,
I love, and it means I live ”
(Vladimir Vysotsky, Balad of Love)
Sandy Krolick graduated Magna cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, with a B.A. in the History of Culture from Hobart College in the Finger Lakes Region of New York, a Master’s degree from the University of Chicago’s Committee on General Studies in Humanities, and a Doctorate in Religious Studies from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
After an early life in music and driving a taxi, and then a ten-year career in academia, including appointments at the University of Virginia, the University of Denver-Daniels College of Business, and the Colorado School of Mines, he spent the next twenty years in the partnership and executive ranks of several of America’s largest domestic and international firms, including Ernst & Young LLP, General Electric, and Computer Sciences Corporation.
Sandy has spent many years traveling around the world, including parts of Asia, Africa, Europe, Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine, and of course North America. Retiring from business at the age of fifty, he recently returned to the USA with his wife Anna, after living and teaching for several years in the central Siberian Steppe, at the foot of the Altai mountains in Barnaul, Russia.
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