In the annals of film and television history, the name Rod Serling usually conjures up visions of fantastic realities and unsettling characters from within “The Twilight Zone.” But a glimpse beneath the surface of the man, let alone his masterful writings, exposes the depth of social consciousness.

The close of one year and the beginning of the new is a good time to remind all our Christian friends of the relationship between Christianity and Marxism-Leninism and the working-class movement.

Richard Yates' novel Revolutionary road is a story about a couple, Frank and April Wheeler, (played by Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in the film), who move to the suburbs in Connecticut.

In the annals of film and television history, the name Rod Serling usually conjures up visions of fantastic realities and unsettling characters from within “The Twilight Zone.” But a glimpse beneath the surface of the man, let alone his masterful writings, exposes the depth of social consciousness, of political commentary and a bold outspokenness rarely seen at the height of the Cold War.

A humanist vision considers history to be a human product, which is to say, a product of the freedom of its individuals and the diverse groups that have enacted it and interpreted it. An anti-humanist vision asserts that, on the contrary, those individuals and those groups are the result of history itself, and their freedom is an illusion.

Antonio Gramsci differentiated organic intellectuals from traditional intellectuals, by emphasizing the role of the former in cultivating roots within their communities to help develop a self-inspired organic consciousness.

Mixing up science and religion usually does no credit to the cause of scientific understanding. The latest instruction from the Vatican on bioethical issues is a case in point.

Spain Rodriguez was one of the original members of Zap Comics and has a reputation as a political artist who pushes the boundaries of creativity. He is the author of several graphic novels, including CHE: A Graphic Biography.

It's a busy Saturday afternoon on a main drag in New York's Hudson River Valley and Pete Seeger can be found standing vigil aside a flurry of traffic as he's done each week for five years.

Thirty-five miles east of the dusty town of Socorro in Southeast New Mexico, the first atomic weapon was tested on July 16, 1945, 35. The weapon would, within the month, be credited with ending the Second World War.

Mexican Sergio Pitol, the 2005 Miguel de Cervantes Literature Prize winner, next week will receive a tribute from Havana’s Casa de las Américas cultural institution, where the author will read some of his stories.

On July 16, 1945, 35 miles east of the dusty town of Socorro in Southeast New Mexico, the first atomic weapon was tested. The weapon would, within the month, be credited with ending the Second World War.

Much has been written about Bob Dylan's life and work, and much of it is very good. From Christopher Ricks' investigation of Dylan's "Visions of Sin" to Mike Marqusee's look at his protest songs in the 1960s and Clinton Heylin's biographical work – not to mention Dylan's own autobiographical "Chronicles" – we have come to learn a great deal more about one of our age's great voices.

I was quite pleased about that because, as you mention, most people know me as a political song writer, and I think sometimes my love songs get out of the loop. The best ones, I think, are ones that can be seen as both love songs and political songs.

Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance.

Carmine Pisano was a worker. His skin was brown from the California sun. His arms were stout and muscular, and his frame was short and sturdy. His dark brown hair, though it was beginning to thin out a little at the top – at forty-two you expected such things – was still abundant and wavy.

We all loved his collaboration with folk-rocking band Wilco that produced the two-disk Mermaid Avenue collection of reproduced Woodie Guthrie songs. Many of his albums from Workers Playtime to William Bloke are must haves for any progressive's music collection.

The Shadow Man is a kind of classic haunted house story, but one very much driven by contemporary and edgy characters, which is what I think makes it fresh and different. My female protagonist, Maggie, is a Latina. She is a single working mother who inherits this strange toxic house...