Utne Reader
Magazine | Independent
The Utne Reader is a periodical founded in 1984 by Eric and Nina Utne. It maintains a digest format and runs articles that originally appeared elsewhere much like Reader's Digest. In addition to a few original pieces each issue, the magazine features quotations; an unusual policy for an alternative publication. Utne Reader also printed open-minded and nearly positive articles on the Mythopoetic Men's Movement when it first surfaced in the early 1990sone of the few publications to do so. Unlike the Reader's Digest, which tends to publish articles with more mainstream leanings, Utne is a ... More » (Source: Wikipedia)
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Seeing Skinhead
Instead I took a deep breath. I channeled my outrage into a form of meditation. I reminded myself that I am a writer. My job is to observe and to remember. When push comes to ...Posted by Patricia Blochowiak -
Liberals Aren’t Un-American. Conservatives Aren’t Ignorant.
“I think of liberals as colorblind,” ...We have finely tuned sensors for harm and injustice but are blind to other moral dimensions....Posted by Philippe Habib -
The People's Professor: Community Education Goes Ivy League
() The professor turns to face the students, whose eyes are directed upward at the great thinkers shown in his favorite painting. "Raphael was trying to capture a community ...Posted by Patricia Blochowiak -
In Praise of Economic Pain
() No one likes a recession. The truth is, though, that most of us need to be jolted out of a fossil-fueled consumerist binge that's gobbling up the planet. While the latest ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Environmental Justice For All
() As stories about global warming, sustainable energy, and climate change make headlines, the fact that some neighborhoods, particularly low-income and minority communities, are ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
A User-Friendly Computer Virus
() It took Blizzard Entertainment, the Irvine, California, company behind the game, nearly a week to stop the virtual plague. At that time the online Tolkienesque world of swords ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala



