Blog – Gus diZerega

A Disturbing Thought About Libertarians and Conservatives

Posted on February 2, 2025February 6, 2025 by Gus

Over the past several years I had become increasingly disillusioned by a contradiction I saw among a great many libertarians. While they espoused an ideology that attacked coercion against peaceful people as a basic, perhaps most basic, element in their … Read more

Donald Trump, the Antchrist, and Power

Posted on September 12, 2024September 12, 2024 by Gus

I obviously do not believe Biblical prophecies have a divine source in any sense. At the same time, I am fascinated by the power coherent images and attitudes have to influence people’s perceptions and experiences, especially when shared by many … Read more

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

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

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

NeoPaganism, Divine Immanence, and the Sacred Feminine

Posted on August 10, 2020December 16, 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

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

Iraq — Let us not forget those who were right: the case for a national day of mourning

Posted on June 1, 2020June 1, 2020 by Gus

As we observe the ten year anniversary of the Iraq War we should not forget those who opposed this catastrophic and evil action. Not a single terrorist on 9-11 was Iraqi and it has become clear to all interested in … Read more

Seeing and Feeling Energy Fields

Posted on May 29, 2020May 29, 2020 by Gus

Some otherwise sympathetic readers will suspect my description of Sacred amounts to wishful thinking. The world really is meaningless. Ultimately everything is simply an object in relation to other objects. So it seems to many minds thoroughly socialized by the … Read more

Neoconservatism’s Paradoxical Origins

Posted on May 29, 2020May 29, 2020 by Gus

Neoconservatism has a complex parentage, partly home grown and even more European. It originally grew out of tensions internal to many liberals who made up a crucial part of the Democratic coalition Franklin Roosevelt had created, a coalition that had … Read more