On February 1, 1960, the first sit-in began in the segregated South. In Greensboro, North Carolina, four African American students sat in at the local Woolworth’s lunch counter. The company had happily taken their money when they made a purchase … Read more
Author: Gus
Understanding Democracy, part I: Democracies are not states
Sunday I joined some Bay Area libertarians for dinner and conversation at a Chinese restaurant in Berkeley. I had been invited as a result of one reading my chapter on libertarianism in Uncivil Liberties: Deconstructing Libertarianism. At his request … Read more
The Silence of the Earth
Why do modern societies find the Earth a largely silent backdrop to human affairs while non-literate ones in particular did not? On Earth Day I published a piece over at Witches and Pagans that explored David Abram’s take on the … Read more
David Abram’s Becoming Animal: one of the most important environmental books of our time
When David Abram’s Becoming Animal first came out I published a review on Beliefnet. The Alliance for Wild Ethics later linked to my review in their own descriptions of the book. Since then I left Beliefnet and they have not … Read more
The Transforming Power of Pagan Religion
Enough of critiques! I have a new post up on Patheos that looks at how Pagan spirituality is a corrective to serious blind spots in much Christian and secular thinking about people and the world.… Read more