Michael Ansara
Cognoscenti contributor
Michael Ansara is the author of "The Hard Work of Hope" (Cornell University Press, July 2025). He has been a dedicated activist and organizer since the 1960s, starting with the civil rights, student, and antiwar movements. His poetry and essays have been featured in numerous journals.
Recently published
Hope alone is never enough
Michael Ansara, the author of a new memoir, “The Hard Work of Hope,” writes, the demonstrations, sit-ins, boycotts and marches of the ’60s and ’70s were possible because of the...
Protests, Chaos, Needless Deaths And A Looming Election: It Feels Like 1968. Why 2020 Is Different
We don't know how far Trump will go to hang onto power. That makes 2020 even more threatening than 1968, writes Michael Ansara.