Winter 2011 issue

Editor's Desk: Choice and Freedom
by Sherrie Gossett
Smokin' Soul: The Story of Daptone Records
by Sarah Perry
Deep inside a ramshackle Brooklyn row house, two R&B sidemen are engineering vinyl records burning with fatback groove and bottomless soul.

Radicalism vs. Normality
by William R Thomas
Did Jane Austen approve of slavery? And what does that have to do with how you perceive the world around you today?

The Radical But Conservative Declaration of Independence
by Alexander R. Cohen
Can a movement be both radical and conservative? We can find a precedent in this historic document.

Canada's Stephen Harper: Radical?
by Brad Doucet
A look at the promise and missteps of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's career.

The War in Iraq: All Over But the Doubting
by Walter Donway
Why we're in no better position, today, to avoid unnecessary wars, and identify necessary ones, than we were in the Vietnam era.

SPECIAL REPORT
ObamaCare: Rx for Crisis
by David Hogberg
Provisions within ObamaCare will gut the growth of physician-owned specialty hospitals. Investigative reporter David Hogberg explains what you need to know about this dangerous threat to your health care options.

sidebar:  Achievement and Success: Behind the Scenes at a Physician-Owned Specialty Hospital
by David Hogberg

sidebar:  Institutionalized Inefficiency: Behind the Scenes at a General Hospital
by David Hogberg

ENDNOTES
The Barn
a poem by Walter Donway

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