Common Sense for the Twenty-first Century

Blase Bonpane, Ph.D., served as a Maryknoll priest and superior. In addition to being a UCLA and CSU Northridge professor, contributor to LA Times and NY Times and former commentator on Pacifica radio station KPFK 90.7 fm (LA, CA), Blase is the author of many publications. As a U.S. citizen, he is especially concerned about the role of his own country in fostering conditions of injustice. In 1989 he was named "the most underrated humanist of the past decade" by the LA Weekly. He is currently Director of the Office of the Americas, a non-profit educational corporation dedicated to peace and justice in the western hemisphere. The Blase Bonpane Collection 1950-2000 has been established by the Department of Special Collections of the U.C.L.A. Research Library. This is a compilation of his published and unpublished writings together with tapes of lectures and a complete file of the "Focus on the Americas" programs which were uplinked to the National Public Radio satellite.Bonpane, Blase is the author of 'Common Sense for the Twenty-first Century ', published 2004 under ISBN 9781888996562 and ISBN 1888996560.