[This post has been replaced by one somewhat newer that addresses these issues more completely. It does not reject any of what is written here but improves the analysis. I am keeping it here primarily for historical reasons and … Read more
The Magick of Pagan Music
I posted some thought about music’s role in our religion on Witches and Pagans. It was inspired by three wonderful composer/musicians I head at Pantheacon this year: Holly Tannen, Ruth Barrett, and Celia Farran. There are some nice links to … Read more
Charles Koch, intellectual freedom and the death of libertarian scholarship
It looks like the Koch ideological machine is very serious about using Koch money to control the intellectual life of college campuses wherever possible. “Lakey,” a graduate student at Florida State University just wrote an expose for the Tallahassee Democrat… Read more
Paradoxes of Freedom: Civil Society and the Market Order
Published in Cosmos and Taxis, Vol. 2, Issue 1, 2014.
Abstract
Civil society maximizes individual freedom. Spontaneous orders emerge from principles expressed more completely within civil society and enable cooperation to take more complex forms than in their absence. … Read more
Bernd Heinrich’s “Life Everlasting”: a review essay
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”
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
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