A Queer Anarcho-Christmas Carol

By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley The following is the Gospel according to Nicky Reid, a ranting, genderfuck, lesbian, Christopagan anarchist from the 21st Century. Like all religious propaganda, it is loosely based on a hot mess of new age folklore, revisionist history, pharmacological […]

An Empire For Our Times?

A Discussion of Peter Wilson’s The Holy Roman Empire: A Thousand Years of Europe’s History Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 December 2017 In the two centuries since its dissolution in 1806, the Holy Roman Empire has usually been viewed as an antiquated relic of the medieval […]

Anarchy and the Kingdom of God

This book looks to be an interesting take on Christian Anarchist thought. From Eschatology to Orthodox Political Theology and Back Anarchy and the Kingdom of God reclaims the concept of “anarchism” both as a political philosophy and a way of thinking of the sociopolitical sphere from a theological […]

Why Liberalism Means Empire

I suppose I could be considered a “non-liberal anti-imperialist.” The libertarians’ admiration of Singapore and Hong Kong is overstated as is the progressives’ admiration of the Scandinavian countries. The problem with both libertarianism and progressivism is their universalism, which is not reconcilable with anti-imperialism. I tend to think […]

Progressive v. Loopy

As a radical decentralist and non-universalist, I don’t have any theoretical objection to Seattle becoming a communist-led city-state that legalizes petty crime. If people in Seattle want to do things that way, fine with me. Or, if not, that’s okay, too. Seattle has a statue of Lenin which […]