Some months ago I posted an account of the evidence for a Koch funded conspiracy against American democracy, rooted in my having grown up in Wichita, their home, having known Charles Koch personally, and my youthful involvement with the radical … Read more
Category: Articles
“Outlining a New Paradigm” Cosmos and Taxis, vol. 1, no. 1, 2013
Emergence is attracting growing interest in the sciences. This paper argues understanding emergence in social science requires different approaches than in the physical sciences. The argument makes use of contributions by Elizabeth Fox Keller, Thomas Kuhn, Jane Jacobs, Michael Polanyi, … Read more
“Unexpected Harmonies: Self-Organization in Liberal Modernity and Ecology” The Trumpeter, Journal of Ecosophy, 10:1, Winter 1993, 25-32.
Deep Ecology and Eco-Feminism
Deep ecologists and ecofeminists share far more in common than where they differ. However, scholars within both perspectives have tended to exaggerate inevitable differences in terminology and traditions of analysis into supposedly significant differences in kind. Some ecofeminists criticize deep … Read more
Before the Farm – and After
Based on reasonable extrapolations from both the historical evidence and surviving hunting and gathering societies, our earliest forbearers generally lived in relatively small usually mobile groups. This mobility was not universal. Permanent communities could exist where fish, game, and edible … Read more
Are they Fascists?
A Brief Overview of the Civil Rights Movement
Dixie: America’s First Counter Culture
Imposing Masculine Monotheism
Transcendental masculine monotheism did not come easily to the people whose descendents now practice exclusively monotheistic faiths. Describing the Divine in feminine terms has occurred in virtually every culture on every continent and in every civilization. Everywhere in the world … Read more