Hello Again!
It has certainly been a while since I have blogged. I guess I needed a break to refresh my writing. I expect to occasionally post on history, current events, and the outdoors. I have stopped regular...
View ArticleThe Mapmakers: Reading a Classic
The Mapmakers by John Noble Wilford tells the story of mapping from the earliest known maps to the turn of the twenty-first century, when the second edition of the book was published. It is recommended...
View ArticleLonger Walks in Winter
Winter has arrived, and it’s time to get friendly with the season. Enduring the cold can certainly become the focus of a long winter walk, but there is much more. The contrasts abound: body heat and...
View ArticleWhat Kind of Conversation?
I really did not want to write about a mass shooting, but I felt like I needed to. I hope that I can somehow help the families and survivors of the attack on the Pulse club and help them not be...
View ArticleIgnorance in Power
I’ve been reading some great commentary on how the establishment is utterly baffled by, and derisively hostile to, the rise of populist movements that appear to reject some of its core positions. Glenn...
View ArticlePreventing Fascism From Taking Root: We Have Work to Do.
I am between the shock of last night’s surprising performance by Donald Trump, the dread of checking the news this morning to see if it really did go the way I feared when I went to bed, and the...
View ArticleDefend Freedom and Steer Away From Fascism
Donald Trump and the movement that he has inspired threaten American liberty to a more serious degree than most of us have seen in our lifetimes, and it is crucial to meet these threats now in order to...
View ArticleSaying What We’re All Thinking: Normalize Resistance
For reactionary populism to win, it needs to tell stories about a golden past and about a future that can be great if old values are recovered and given strength. For liberty and tolerance to win, we...
View ArticleThe Time to Decide the Future is Now
The Putin gang and the Trump team will likely act on their common interests as authoritarian nationalists. What will they do and how can they be stopped? The Trump brand of authoritarianism has...
View ArticleSpain in Our Hearts – A Worthwhile Addition to Spanish Civil War History
Adam Hochschild’s Spain in our Hearts is an excellently written contribution to histories of the Spanish Civil War. It does have some points against it but overall I would recommend the book. Spain in...
View ArticleWe Will Defeat the Authoritarian Nationalists
Human liberty has been won in hard fights against powerful interests and systems, but the progress of liberty can be set back. The rise of authoritarian nationalism is a serious threat to the liberty...
View ArticleWe Must Defeat Fascism by Any Means Necessary
(Note: This article was originally published for the Center for a Stateless Society November 2017 Mutual Exchange Symposium on Freedom of Speech and Political Violence.) Fascist movements are made with...
View ArticleLiberty and Solidarity – For Mutualist Federalism
The genuine defense of liberty and embrace of solidarity is a direct revolt against the politics of domination and marginalization. Mutualist federalism seeks revolution in social relations and social...
View ArticleGuns, Violence, and Liberty
George Orwell, writing about the Home Guard in 1941, declared “That rifle on the wall of the labourer’s cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays...
View ArticleOpen the Borders
Borders should be open to all who would cross them peaceably, whether they are heroes or average folks. Embracing open borders means taking a leading role in the fight for human freedom. If you truly...
View ArticleThe Ruling Party is Fascist
The ruling party of the United States is assembling a fascist regime. The American people must prevent them from establishing a fascist order. A powerful segment of the party that controls the...
View ArticleMy Relationship With Anarchism as it Currently Stands
Although I have been, and may yet be, an anarchist, I am hesitant to apply the label of anarchist to myself currently. Instead I use the label of libertarian mutualist. A belief on current political...
View ArticleNo Empathy With Tyranny
I am happy the Trump regime is coming to an end. I am angry the Trump regime happened and isn’t over yet. There may be a path to redemption for most of Trump’s supporters and enablers, but they do not...
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