Contr’un

As the action gradually moves away from this blog, I’m generally going to split my posting between the newsy stuff that has to do with the Libertarian Labyrinth archive and the history-and-theory stuff. If you […]

I’ve talked a bit, in this period of personal and political transition, about the effects of working backwards through the anarchist tradition, “chipping away at … accepted wisdom.” I would hope that the practical difficulties […]

I’ve had a chance recently to reread some old and in-progress translations from Proudhon’s writings about philosophy, and naturally the impact of those writings changes as my understanding of Proudhon’s larger project grows. But I’m […]

One of the aspects of Benjamin R. Tucker’s career that has received comparatively little attention is his interest in European literature, and his translation efforts. His Five Stories a Week remains half-mythic for many of […]

There’s been a sort of elegiac quality to many of the responses to my recent change in focus and keywords. For me, although there are obviously costs involved with shifting from rhetorical ground that I’ve […]