Essays. Politics. Jewish Studies. American by birth (currently residing in Berkeley), Israeli by association, and homeless by conscience, thirty-four-year-old Punk Planet and Bad Subjects editor Joel Schalit is uniquely qualified to dissect the New World Order and the rise of religious fundamentalism across the globe."This remarkable collection of essays by an astute young writer covers a wide range of topics--the political ethic of punk, the nature of secular Jewish identity, the dangerous place, according to Schalit, that politicized Christianity plays in the U.S., and the legacy of the Cold War in the ability to imagine freedom. Schalit almost always hits his mark . . . [He] provides an overview of contemporary critical, radical thinking . . . This is the debut of a new and original thinker"--PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (starred review).

Author City: Milan ITA

Joel Schalit is the author of the critically acclaimed JERUSALEM CALLING and the editor of several collections, including THE ANTI-CAPITALISM READER: IMAGINING A GEOGRAPHY OF OPPOSITION. His writing has appeared in AlterNet, The Forward, the Guardian, and XLR8R. Schalit currently comments on Middle Eastern politics for French global news broadcaster France 24, and he is the culture editor of the New York Jewish periodical Zeek. He lives in Milan, Italy.