Post-Pandemic Melancholia . . . Same As It Ever Was?

First days of August on the beach in Mexico, eating coconut pie, pretty far from melancholic!

Dark times will always spur retrospection, but we need to look backwards not simply to track either progress or decline but rather to open our eyes wider to the crosscurrents, contradictions, and eerie resonances of history. (p. […]

For Full Enjoyment, Not Full Employment!

At Baker Beach on a cross-Presidio walk the day after Xmas.

Happy new year friends. It’s been a good long while since I blogged. I just posted before this the review essay I wrote about two anarchist books that was originally published at The Fabulist. Having written three such essays for my pal […]

So You Think You’re An Anarchist?

This was originally published on The Fabulist, Nov. 24, 2022

The Impossible Community: Realizing Communitarian Anarchism By John P. Clark, PM Press (2022) Buy this book on Bookshop.org

Overcoming Capitalism: Strategy for the Working Class in the 21st Century By Tom Wetzel, AK Press (2022) Buy this book on Bookshop.org

Given the hollow rhetoric […]