Lessons in Moral Courage

by Mona Shaw It has always astonished me how much rancor you can bring down on your head simply because you don’t want people to s...

by Mona Shaw I’ve never been to China. I never will travel there. But, most of things in my apartment have been. Most arrived ...

by Mona Shaw Many know about Dorothy Day’s work with the poor and her anti-war activism. Not as much is known about her as a brill...

by Mona Shaw There is no way to confront economic inequality without rich people feeling shamed. And even thin morality requires t...

by Mona Shaw “But” may be the cruelest conjunction in the English language. My entire history of activism is comprised of one ...

Michael and I in 1981 by Mona Shaw World AIDS Day hit me harder this year than it has in decades. I don’t know why.  I jotted ...

by Mona Shaw Mark Twain once said, “It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble . It's what you know for ...

by Mona Shaw Without Thomas Paine, there would have been no American Revolution. Until Paine’s pamphlet, “Common Sense,” the drive for i...