It’s Not About Free Trade, It’s About Open Access to Ideas
It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single…
Essay
Making Futurism Work for You
The Solarpunk ideal is a resistance to the idea that things are ever “just the way they are.” We can always make changes for the better. A practical mode of bettering ones life, the Solarpunk ideal is the realization that a resistance needs to ignite, a resistance to the idea that “things are just
Pop-Culture
All Men Should Watch Pride and Prejudice (1995)
I was one of those young men who thought that Pride and Prejudice was the last thing I wanted to experience. But, oh, how I was wrong. I had accepted the prevailing masculine norm of my culture without realizing it; I had become colonized by thoughts which were not my own.
The Purpose of Education (and why current systems fail)
We do not want to lay down a pattern or type to which men of all sorts are to be made by some means or another approximate. Political and social institutions are to be judged by the good or harm that they do to individuals. Do they preserve self-respect?
Eco-Community, Technology, and Evolution
As the world changes, as capitalism shows its true face, as the climate cycles falter and shift, we need to concentrate on two things. As the world changes, as capitalism shows its true face, as the climate cycles falter and shift, we need to concentrate on two things.
Essay
Solarpunk: The Fiction of the Future
There are limitless options for storytelling, if you set your mind to it. Have you ever wondered what the future might be like? And I am not talking about the future of tomorrow or next week; I’m talking about the future of our species, our civilization; our world.
The Voting Teen
Why teenagers should be allowed to vote for the good of the country. The Republic is flailing rather wildly as we enter the first quarter of the 21st century and, to the eyes of many, the future is far from secure. It seems clear that we need all hands on deck.
One World, One People: Ruminating on Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry (born 1934) is an intellectual writer, philosopher, conservationist, activist, Christian, and small-farm advocate. A devout…