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Social Justice from a Pagan Perspective

Posted on February 4, 2016February 4, 2016 by Gus

On January 23, 2016, I gave this paper as the keynote speaker at the Conference of Current Pagan Studies, in Claremont, California. It was well received and I want to make it available to anyone who is interested.

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My Near Death Experience in Maine: And a powerful lesson in compassion

Posted on January 15, 2016January 15, 2016 by Gus

Granite

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Foster Gamble Again

Posted on December 14, 2015December 14, 2015 by Gus

A couple of days ago I received an email from a Pagan list connecting to a “New Paradigm” conference where prominent speakers would be libertarians mixing a dose of conspiracy theory, libertarian boilerplate, and New Age rhetoric into a supposed … Read more

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What is Indigenaity in Religion?

Posted on November 19, 2015April 17, 2021 by Gus

With small changes this article appeared in  The Interfaith Observer.

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Can indigenous peoples not practice indigenous religions? What if a non-indigenous person claims to practice their religion? Can people normally not considered indigenous have an indigenous religion? Can … Read more

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Not Just Construction: the shadow side of large organizations

Posted on November 3, 2015 by Gus

Why do big organizations so often seem perverse, and why do people who are a part of them so often seem as if they have become different people? Why do these most impressive of our social creations seem to become … Read more

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Hayekian Insights on Capitalism Part III: Capitalism and Nature

Posted on October 29, 2015October 29, 2015 by Gus

Capitalism undermines the natural systems that support human well-being for the same reason it undermines civil society: the values it elevates above all others are incompatible with human or natural flourishing. Capitalism fails to achieve the minimal ethical standards to … Read more

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Capitalism 3.0: A Wonderful Book

Posted on October 29, 2015 by Gus

Peter Barnes, a founder of the progressive phone company Credo and of the Mesa Refuge, has written Capitalism 3.0, a very important book on how the threat of global warming could be solved quickly from within a market context. Sadly … Read more

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Re-thinking the Obvious: Modernity and Living Respectfully with Nature

Posted on September 14, 2015September 21, 2019 by Gus

http://trumpeter.athabascau.ca/index.php/trumpet/article/view/167/201… Read more

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Creating Institutions of Care: The Case for Democratic Forest Trusts

Posted on September 13, 2015 by Gus

In: Watson, Alan; Dean, Liese; Sproull, Janet, comps. 2005. Science and stewardship to protect and sustain wilderness values: Eighth World Wilderness Congress symposium; 2005 September 30–October 6; Anchorage, AK. Proceedings RMRS-P-000. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, … Read more

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Turning the Tables: The pathologies and unrealized promise of libertarianism

Posted on June 30, 2015February 19, 2016 by Gus

As a scholar and former libertarian, I have been disappointed at libertarians’ general failure to engage in serious debate with their critics, but I have also been disappointed with most critics’ relatively simplistic attacks on libertarian ideology.  I wrote this … Read more

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