CULTURAL ANALYSTS

CAROLYN BAKER, Ph.D., is an adjunct professor of history, an author, and former psychotherapist. Her lastest book is U.S. HISTORY UNCENSORED: What Your High School Textbook Didn’t Tell You. It is now available to order on her site, Speaking Truth To Power. As a student of mythology and ritual, she has authored two other books: RECLAIMING THE DARK FEMININE: The Price Of Desire and THE JOURNEY OF FORGIVENESS: Fulfilling The Healing Process. She is available for interviews and author and speaking events.

REJECTING TAPEWORM ECONOMICS AND ITS WAR ON FAMILIES Chilean president Michelle Bachelet appears to be choosing policies designed to fortify the family—but not in the usual "conservative" framework we are accustomed to witness in the US, reports Carolyn Baker. Instead, Bachelet is instituting the right to daycare for all Chilean children, and similar measures.

New York Times reporter, Chris Hedges, has written an extraordinary book, American Fascism: The Christian Right And The War On America. Having survived a Christian fundamentalist background myself, I marvel at the timely urgency of Hedges’ book, but also, at the obtuse disconnect most Americans have with the pivotal thesis of his book: the power of the religious right in the United States to bring forth a nation whose totalitarian repression could dwarf that of Nazi Germany in the 1930s.

CAROLYN BAKER INTERVIEWS JASON MILLER Carolyn, herself a recent felicitous arrival at Cyrano, discusses with Jason the mainsprings for his commitment to moral activism of the real kind.