Gus diZerega

Getting Clear on Critical Race Theory

Posted on June 28, 2021June 28, 2021 by Gus

Gus diZerega

6/28/2021

As I have watched, read, and engaged in discussions about Critical Race Theory (CRT), I discovered people advocating it often use very different definitions. When this diversity is ignored, as it often is, debates can become acrimonious … Read more

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Michael Warren Davis’s “King of the Wild:” Getting everything wrong about Wicca is hard, but not impossible

Posted on September 6, 2022September 8, 2022 by Gus

Academically, I am a Political Scientist and a Gardnerian Witch, in both cases for about 40 years. I encountered the Craft soon after gaining my Ph.D. at Berkeley. I cut my ideological teeth as a young conservative in high school … Read more

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Women and Men: Unique Disadvantages

Posted on March 16, 2021March 16, 2021 by Gus

Some years back I was dealing with the woke claim that a transwoman is a woman, PERIOD, and trying to find a way to get through the mindless chant and reach the intelligence it suppressed. One of the things this … Read more

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People of the Earth

Posted on February 18, 2021February 18, 2021 by Gus

One of the most important research projects for me personally, perhaps the most important, is better understanding perceptions about “place” within many indigenous peoples’ cultures. Over and over we hear traditional indigenous peoples say they and the place wherein they … Read more

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NeoPaganism, the Volk, and the Contemporary Pagan Right

Posted on September 5, 2020December 13, 2020 by Gus

Latest Revison 12/13//2020

Based on a paper delivered at “Paganism and its Discontents,” March 15, 2019. Cherry Hill Seminary, University of South Carolina

The American Heathen community is deeply divided about issues of race, ethnicity, and the political values … Read more

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NeoPaganism, Divine Immanence, and the Sacred Feminine

Posted on August 10, 2020July 19, 2022 by Gus

Introduction

This essay analyzes hotly contested issues within the contemporary American Pagan community. The arguments creating such discord rely on holding two contradictory positions at the same time. First, gender is socially, not biologically, defined. The second is there are … Read more

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What is fascism?

Posted on August 1, 2020August 1, 2020 by Gus

People frequently discuss fascism in America today, in no small part because we now have a significant fascist movement in this country. But many different groups use the term in many different ways. Most basically, some call it “right wing” … Read more

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My New Book–“God is Dead, Long Live the Gods”–is Available!

Posted on July 14, 2020August 10, 2020 by Gus

God is Dead, Long Live the Gods: A case for polytheism

Why does polytheism make more sense than monotheism?
Why do monotheistic religions always manifest as confused forms of polytheism?
Why are successful scientific criticisms of monotheism irrelevant to a

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WORKING PAPER Outgrowing Methodological individualism: Emergence, spontaneous order, and civil society

Posted on July 8, 2020July 8, 2020 by Gus

working paper – comments encouraged.

“It doesn’t matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.”

Deng Xiaoping

“it depends in the end on what one’s definition of methodological individualism is.”

Bruce Caldwell

Abstract

Methodological … Read more

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The troubling case of eugenics

Posted on June 11, 2020June 11, 2020 by Gus

In the late 1880s Darwin’s cousin, Francis Galton advocated applying scientific insights to human reproduction. He label his proposed science “eugenics.” Galton argued that just as physical traits were obviously inherited, the same could be said for mental qualities. In … Read more

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