Uneasy Witness
/Vegetarians choose to be vegetarians and meat-eaters choose to be "normal." Melanie Joy cuts into the language we use to describe our food and the mindset behind it.
Read MoreYou Oughta Know that (Music) is a Battlefield
/"Sisters are doin' it for themselves" ... but the Spice Girls? Marisa Meltzer's "Girl Power" picks some strange hall-of-famers, and gets Megan Kearns shaking her head, "with friends like these ..."
Read MoreThe Long and Winding Road
/Jonathan Safran Foer is not the first, but is certainly the most famous, to investigate the ethics of eating animals. Megan Kearns studies both the style and the substance of his argument, with an eye to his less acknowledged allies in vegetarianism
Read MoreA Handbook for Hope
/In Half the Sky, Nicholas Kristof and Sherilyn DuWunn chronicle the plight of women from the Congo to Cambodia, and everywhere else across the globe; Megan Kearns reviews their work.
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