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Progressives again blowing the lessons of the election

Posted on January 7, 2015January 8, 2015 by Gus

As Republicans take over the Senate as well as the House, progressive American leaders are trying to find a silver lining, and so far guaranteeing the clouds will remain dark. Think Progress, which has many intelligent posts, has one by … Read more

Musings on the Solstice in Dark Times

Posted on December 28, 2014 by Gus

These are dark times for anyone with any affection for the liberal values that underlie the best of this country all the way back to our Founders. From ‘patruots’ who understand this country’s principles as well as Fundamentalists and ISIL … Read more

Bernd Heinrich’s “Life Everlasting”: a review essay

Posted on October 19, 2014December 13, 2014 by Gus

This has been cross-posted at Witches and Pagans.

Scientists motivated by a deep love and fascination for the natural world share much of a Pagan sensibility about the world’s intrinsic value without our metaphysics, but with skills of observation … Read more

When is a book review not a book review? A more than frustrating review of “Faultlines”

Posted on August 22, 2014August 22, 2014 by Gus

There are reviews that grapple with what a book argues, and those that do not. I was disappointed that Patheos’ review of my book was the latter. Nikki Whiting admits after reading it she did not know for sure what … Read more

New paper posted on emergent order and spontaneous order

Posted on July 29, 2014 by Gus

New Directions in Emergent Order Research

In 2008 I wrote the inaugural piece for the journal Studies in Emergent Order. Sadly it was taken over by hard core libertarian ideologues and my final piece for it was rejected, though … Read more

Libertarian critique II: Property rights

Posted on July 27, 2014 by Gus

If anything sets libertarianism as an ideology off from other more reasonable points of view, along with the ‘nonaggression principle’ it is their doctrine of property rights. As with nonaggression, they take a principle nearly all agree on, and then … Read more

Libertarian Critique I: The ‘nonaggression principle’

Posted on July 27, 2014July 27, 2014 by Gus

This is the first of what will be a series of posts criticizing libertarian ideology as not up to the claims its advocates claim for it. Perhaps some will even seek to enter into dialogue on this or other issues … Read more

The “War of Ideas” and the crippling of classical liberal thought

Posted on July 19, 2014July 19, 2014 by Gus

When I first got interested in the social sciences and philosophy it was in large part because I had been repeatedly told as a high school conservative that we were engaged in a “war of ideas.” Further, in the long … Read more

Complexity and the Dream of Human Control of Eco-Systems

Posted on July 10, 2014September 21, 2019 by Gus

Complexity and the Dream of Human Control of Eco-Systems

Gus diZerega

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. … Read more

Deep Ecology and Liberalism: The Greener Implications of Evolutionary Liberal Theory

Posted on July 10, 2014July 10, 2014 by Gus

DEEP ECOLOGY AND LIBERALISM:

The Greener Implications of Evolutionary Liberal Theory

Review of Politics, 58:4, Fall, 1996.

Gus diZerega

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DEEP ECOLOGY AND LIBERALISM: A RECONCILIATION: The Greener Implications of Evolutionary Liberal Theory

Modern environmentalism has two dimensions. The … Read more