It is interesting to find a discussion of David Graeber in the Examiner of all places. By Geoff Shullenberger Washington Examiner In his 2011 book Debt: The First 5,000 Years, the anthropologist David Graeber marshaled historical, ethnographic, and archaeological evidence in an effort to dismantle some of the […]
By Kevin Morgan In its heyday around the turn of the twentieth century, Emma Goldman more than anybody personified anarchism for the American public. Journalists described her as anarchy’s ‘red queen’ or ‘high priestess’. At least one anarchist critic was heard to mutter of a ‘cult of personality’. […]
By Michael Shellenberger And why did they rise from 1900 to 2000 before declining? Over the last 30 years, the United Nations, climate scientists, and governments around the world have claimed that climate change is making natural disasters including hurricanes, floods, and heatwaves more frequent. “Climate change has […]
By Sean Gabb The Crusades are the defining event of the Middle Ages. They brought the very different civilisations of Western Europe, Byzantium and Islam into an extended period of both conflict and peaceful co-existence. Between January and March 2021, Sean Gabb explored this long encounter with his […]
Virtually all of history is one big heel vs. heel match. By Darío Fernández-Morera The Postil In his well-written, and impressively documented book, Conquistadores: A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest, Mexican historian Fernando Cervantes (University of Bristol) tells us who these men were that beat the […]
By Christian Parenti, Nonsite.Org How Herbert Marcuse’s widow used a Scientology-linked cult’s methodology to gamify Identity Politics and thus helped steer the U.S. Left down the dead-end path of identitarian psychobabble. In the summer of 2021, a social justice training exercise called the Privilege Walk made headlines when […]
By Samuel Goldman The Week How the left’s 1960s playbook gave us the Capitol riot. They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. If that’s right, the assorted fanatics, thrill-seekers, and nutjobs who stormed the Capitol one year ago today have surprising precursors. The respectable backgrounds of […]
Before there was January 6, there was March 1. It’s often been said that today’s liberalism is tomorrow’s conservatism. Case in point: The left attacked the Capital in 1971and 50 years later the right does the same thing. Nothing original. History.Com A bomb explodes in the Capitol building […]
By Joel Schlosberg, Garrison Center As “the city that never sleeps” turned the calendar to 2022 with the inauguration of Eric Adams just after midnight, partygoers didn’t need Frank Sinatra’s reminder to “start spreading the news” heard on the New Year’s broadcast from Times Square. New Yorkers were […]
Ben Burgis is the author of the upcoming book: Christopher Hitchens: What He Got Right, How He Went Wrong, and Why He Still Matters, as well as the host of “Give Them An Argument” on YouTube. His previous book Give Them An Argument: Logic for the Left was […]
By Greg Sams, Ancient Origins There is a remarkable discovery that has not yet emerged from our renewed interest in ancient civilization. Yet few remark upon this glaring omission from the relics and records we dig up and discover. I first recognized its absence at a visit to […]
By Hank Kennedy Hank Kennedy reminds us of a period of all-sided culture war against comic books, pointing at its lessons and aftermath today. In 1952 there existed twenty comic book publishers, publishing six hundred fifty titles a month, and employing one thousand workers. By 1956, the industry had […]
By Leah Willingham and Rebecca Santana, Associated Press | NEW ORLEANS — Lawrence N. Brooks, the oldest World War II veteran in the U.S. — and believed to be the oldest man in the country — died on Wednesday at the age of 112. His death was announced […]
By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana’s governor on Wednesday posthumously pardoned Homer Plessy, the Black man whose arrest for refusing to leave a whites-only railroad car in 1892 to protest racial segregation sparked the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that cemented “separate but equal” into […]
By Stephen Marche Foreign Policy A significant portion of Americans seek the destruction of political authority. What if they succeed? The unimaginable has become reality in the United States. Buffoonish mobs desecrating the U.S. Capitol building, tanks parading down the streets of Washington, running battles between protesters and […]
By Min, Anarchist Library A short historical summary of the forgotten Korean project known as Shinmin Prefecture and Korean People’s Association in Manchuria. This was a self-governing region of around two million people from 1929 to 1931. 1. Inception Many Koreans gathered in Manchuria to avoid oppression from […]
By John Zerzan, Anarchist Library In the following article are presented some unusual features of the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s, the only period in which the KKK was a mass movement. In no way should this essay be interpreted as an endorsement of any aspect of […]
“Overwhelming popular demand…” That kind of throws a wrench in popular government or mass democracy of the kind that liberals and social democrats favor.
By Larry Gambone, Porcupine Blog One of the few aspects which differentiate humans from other animals is our unending desire to know why things are the way they are. Where any knowledge, let alone scientific knowledge, is missing, we construct narratives to fill that void. These stories we […]
Between 330 AD and 1453, Constantinople (modern Istanbul) was the capital of the Roman Empire, otherwise known as the Later Roman Empire, the Eastern Roman Empire, the Mediaeval Roman Empire, or The Byzantine Empire. For most of this time, it was the largest and richest city in Christendom. […]
By Javier Alcalde Even in those moments most prone to belicist feelings, as were the years of the Great War, peace activism has been able to carry out their ideals with various initiatives. Within the centenary of the First World War, the special issue ‘Pacifists during World War […]
By Devin Foley Intellectual Takeout Let’s be honest, we live in an honor-less age; lies and gossip aren’t just the tools of politicians and celebrities. In your own life, you can probably point to any number of people around you — even church people! — whose main trade seems […]
A recent discovery made in Germany by researchers from the Dutch Leiden University and the German Johannes Gutenberg University that will change our perception of history and Neanderthals completely.
Some excerpts from Peter H. Wilson’s “Heart of Europe: A History of the Holy Roman Empire.” German Freedom Mutual accusations of lack of patriotism peaked during the Thirty Years War, with Protestants accusing Catholics of selling the Empire to Spanish Jesuits and the pope, while Catholics blamed Protestants […]
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Tom Woods Show In a recent episode of the Mises Institute’s Human Action Podcast, hosted by Jeff Deist, we discussed the Old Right, the loose collection of writers and thinkers who opposed domestic and foreign interventionism. Their names have almost been forgotten, and Jeff and I want to […]
By Sean Gabb I would be most reluctant to cross swords with Ludwig von Mises on economics. I have less regard for his history. We can reject the Polanyi/Finley claim that market behaviour is a modern and transitory development, and that ancient economies were so fundamentally different that […]
By Richard Cleminson Current historiography has considered eugenics to be an emanation from state structures or a movement which sought to appeal to the state in order to implement eugenic reform. This paper examines the limitations of that view and argues that it is necessary to expand our […]
By Kwame Anthony Appiah New York Review of Books Reviewed: The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 692 pp., $35.00 In The Dawn of Everything David Graeber and David Wengrow search for historical examples of nonhierarchical […]
By David Wengrow, reply by Kwame Anthony Appiah New York Review of Books In response to: Digging for Utopia from the December 16, 2021 issue To the Editors: In The Dawn of Everything David Graeber and I present a new history of humanity, based on the latest findings […]
By Grayson Quay The Week Desmond Tutu — the South African civil rights campaigner, Nobel Peace Prize recipient, and retired Anglican archbishop — died Sunday in Cape Town at the age of 90, Reuters reports. No cause of death was provided, but according to The New York Times, […]
By Grayson Quay The Week On Christmas night, 1991, Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev resigned and relinquished his powers, including the nuclear codes, to Russian President Boris Yeltsin. The flag of the USSR that flew over the Kremlin was lowered, never to be raised again. The next day, the […]
By Julius Ruiz This article examines the use of forced labour in Republican Spain during the civil war. Althoughmuch has recently been written on Francoist camps, very little research has been undertaken ontheir Republican counterparts. As a consequence the significance of Republican camps has not been recognised. Although some […]
This is a 2009 article from the late anarchist anthropologist David Graeber, who died last year, and who was probably as influential as any anarchist in the 21st century so far. I am posting this because the third section of this piece, the discussion of anarchism in the […]
By Charles M. Blow, New York Times The Supreme Court on Friday issued a decision allowing abortion providers in Texas to continue challenging a new law that bans most abortions in the state after about six weeks of pregnancy. But while the conservative majority didn’t close the door […]
By Michael E. Ruane Washington Post In August 1944, an American soldier finishing up an Army survey was asked whether he had any further remarks. He did. “White supremacy must be maintained,” he wrote. “I’ll fight if necessary to prevent racial equality. I’ll never salute a negro officer […]
Al-Jazeera The exquisitely preserved embryo discovered in China was preparing to hatch from its egg just like a chicken. Scientists have announced the discovery of an exquisitely preserved dinosaur embryo from at least 66 million years ago that was preparing to hatch from its egg just like a […]
Meaningness Francis Schaeffer, hippie guru and architect of the modern Religious Right “The counterculture” generally refers to the youth movement of the 1960s-70s: rock and roll, anti-war protests, psychedelics, the New Left, hippies, and the sexual revolution. While puzzling out how these elements cohered—to understand the counterculture functionally […]
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By Richard Bach Jensen After discussing the extent to which the period from 1878–1934, with its frequent incidents of anarchist assassinations and bombings, can be considered the classic age of “lone wolf” or leaderless terrorism, this article focuses on four acts of anarchist violence and police and government […]
By Richard Bach Jensen, Taylor and Francis This essay presents a short overview of the “classic” era of anarchist terrorism between 1880 and World War I, while concentrating on an analysis of the little-known efforts by diplomats, politicians, and the police to control and repress anarchist terrorism. These […]
By Andrew Curry, Science Stories of Sparta aside, analysis questions idea that infirm infants were abandoned to die. In his biography Life of Lycurgus, written around 100 C.E., Greek philosopher Plutarch recounted how the ancient Spartans submitted newborns to a council of elders for inspection. “Fit and strong” […]
Eric Levitz, New York Mag/Intelligency In a recent column for The American Conservative, Helen Andrews argues that Reconstruction — that brief slice of the 19th century during which Black Southerners enjoyed extensive political rights under the aegis of Northern Republicans — was “objectively bad.” Further, she insists that […]
By Guilherme Falleiros and Katiuscia M Galhera ‘The Fordist baggage of anarcho-syndicalism’, by Ben Debney (see Anarchist Studies Blog), argues that anarcho-syndicalism was unable to keep pace with mutations in the labor sphere due to an assumed Fordist paradigm. This article takes as a starting point the fact […]
By Charlie Lee Springtime of Nations “If there is to be a separation, then God bless them both. And keep them in the Union if it be for their good, but separate them if it be better.” …Thomas Jefferson on the New England Hartford Convention of 1814. This […]
By Charlie Lee, Springtime of Nations In a previous video “Yes, Anarcho-Capitalists are Anarchists,” the case was made that anarcho-capitalism is a continuation of the historical anarchist tradition of Proudhon, Bellaguerrigue, Tucker and the rest, contrary to claims by ancoms that anarcho-capitalism has nothing to do with historical […]
A critique of David Graeber By David A. Bell “The Dawn of Everything” has been hailed as a masterpiece. But a careful reading of its look at the Enlightenment exposes concerning mistakes. “What if everything you learned about human history is wrong?” This is the way The New […]
By Alex Ballingall Toronto Star OTTAWA—It was brisk and overcast on Parliament Hill this week when a small group from the distant First Nation of Attawapiskat presented a letter to two Liberal cabinet ministers charged with Indigenous affairs. Less than a decade ago, Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence staged a […]
Krystal and Saagar interview legendary filmmaker Oliver Stone about his new documentary on the JFK murder that examines all of the evidence pointing towards a conspiracy
I actually voted for him in the 1988 Republican primary. I wasn’t so much a fan as much as I wanted to vote against Reagan’s VP, George H W Bush, and against Rev. Pat Robertson, who seemed to be crazy and would have his hands on America’s nuclear […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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