Archive
Besides his books, Bill has written a variety of poems, short stories, opinion pieces, and more.
The Battle of Mastodons
The battle in Washington is not over a balanced budget. It is not between the rich and the poor. It’s not between business and consumers. It’s not about the environment....
The Free Market: An Enduring Myth
My libertarian and conservative friends love to cite the purifying qualities of the free market, operating like a natural stream-bed filter, removing weak business models, compressing economic fluctuations, and obviating...
Election Day 2010: Now it’s our turn
We are at a critical turning point in Vermont. We must confront who we are, who we want to be and what we believe in. As the nation at large...
Democracy, Money and Community
I was taught it’s not polite to talk about money, so here goes. Honesty, however, requires context. I grew up in a middle class family in Vermont. My stepfather’s family...
Midwest Review “Fat People”
“Fat People”9780615397511, $15.00Food is good, food is great, but like all things, overindulgence is the opposite of good. “Fat People” is a collection of short stories from Bill Schubart that...
Political Pledges and Hucksters
Question… should political candidates take ideological pledges? If they do, don’t they then compromise their future leadership options? Leadership, after all, is about the agility of decision-making in real time...
9/11 Redux
At 8:30 the morning of 9/11, I was sitting on the porch at the Inn at Shelburne Farms having breakfast with CBS, NPR, The NY Times, BBC, WNET, WGBH and...
Love’s Labor Lost?
Labor Day is the last, long weekend of summer and a signal that it’s time to get back to work….that is if one has work, which takes us to the...
American Autumn, Arab Spring?
I recently read an editorial juxtaposing two disparate yet related visions that have haunted me, as any good op-ed should. The writer alluded to the crowds in Cairo’s Tahrir Square...
Fat People review in PsychCentral.com by Devon Tomasulo, MFA
For his book Fat People, Bill Schubart has created and gathered a collection of stories that will make you rethink your relationship with food. Schubart is smart, sensitive and unnervingly keen...
“Job Creators?”
I was what conservative business interests would have you believe is a “job creator.” I, and several very smart managers ran, and some still do, a company that worked with...
