August 2005 - The Libertarian Labyrinth

“Fact and Rumor,” 1886

August 31, 2005 Shawn P. Wilbur

From the Christian Union, June 3, 1886: Concerning the Unitarian the Rev. William B. Greene, of West Brookfield, this story is told. A man died in the neighborhood, and the reverend Colonel was called upon […]

William Greene’s Small World

August 28, 2005 Shawn P. Wilbur

I haven’t posted much recently because the research for the chapter on William B. Greene suddenly blossomed into the makings of a book on its own. So I’m running with it, and hope to have […]

New Alchemists and Ocean Arks

August 17, 2005 Shawn P. Wilbur

Nancy Jack Todd has recently written another book, A Safe and Sustainable World: The Promise of Ecological Design, a brief history of the work of the New Alchemy Institute, Ocean Arks International, and recent research […]

Evolution? Ah, What the Heck. Teach the Controversy.

August 16, 2005 Shawn P. Wilbur

But teach it well! I’ve been reading a lot of new responses to the attempts to get “intelligent design” included in science curricula. There’s obviously a lot of concern out there that students will no […]

On Why You Can’t Beat a (Real) Book for Research

August 10, 2005 Shawn P. Wilbur

Something wasn’t looking right. It certainly seemed unlikely to me that the scholars of transcendentalism, who, after all, have been mining a very small body of texts for a very long time now, could have […]

Just a bit more on Greene and Transcendentalism

August 8, 2005 Shawn P. Wilbur

Philip F. Gura has a useful article, “Beyond Transcendentalism: The Radical Individualism of William B. Greene,” in a collection called Transient and Permanent: The Transcendentalist Movement and Its Contexts (Mass. Historical Soc., 1999), edited by […]

William B. Greene, “Song of Espousal” (1840)

August 7, 2005 Shawn P. Wilbur

We find in the “TOKEN” for 1841, the following beautiful poem from the pen of Lieut. GREENE, son our our esteemed Postmaster, Nathaniel Greene, Esq. It breathes the very soul of martial poesy, and resembles in spirit the celebrated “Sword Song” of Kerner, which once rung through the German forces, calling them to valiant deeds.–Boston Eve. Gazette

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Mutualist and transcendentalist bits — William B. Greene

August 6, 2005 Shawn P. Wilbur

William Batchelder Greene (1818-1878), the “American Proudhon,” is a strangely underdocumented character, given his importance to the individualist anarchist tradition. He has yet to find his biographer, though many of his contemporaries considered his life […]

Radical Parables

August 2, 2005 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_2third] As I’ve been immersing myself in Bolton Hall’s work lately, I’ve been finding that nearly half of the book-length works consist of parables of one sort or another. The parable form is fairly common […]

Readings at Random: How the Doctors At Last Agreed

August 1, 2005 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_2third] How the Doctors At Last Agreed A patient with a rope twisted tight around his fee was brought to the Sociologic Hospital. His skin was chafed and bruised by the cord, and fever burned […]

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