October 2011 - The Libertarian Labyrinth

Eliphalet Kimball in 1873

October 31, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

Here’s a bit of follow-up on the Eliphalet Kimball story I recently posted. More searching has not turned up any more direct account of Kimball’s 1852 presidential platform, but while filling some holes in my […]

The return of “From the Libertarian Library”

October 30, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

As a lot of my day-to-day focus shifts back to the digital archiving projects, it makes sense to put some old tools back into use. By the beginning of the new year, I should have […]

Steven T. Byington, “On Interference with the Environment”

October 30, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

ON INTERFERENCE WITH THE ENVIRONMENT. By STEVEN T. BYINGTON. I.—THE PRESUPPOSITIONS I START FROM. I WANT to start a discussion which may be of some length, especially if I get replies from those who disagree […]

Eliphalet Kimball for President! in 1852

October 30, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

Eliphalet Kimball remains one of my favorite figures in the American anarchist tradition, in part because he remains so unknown, popping up here and there in the 19th century radical press to make the most […]

Archive upgrades, IV

October 29, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

The week was full of the right kinds of interruptions: A couple of research requests I had out bore fruit, and gave me plenty of productive distractions from the ongoing archive clean-up. Barry Pateman, of […]

Benjamin R. Tucker in Printers’ Ink, 1892

October 25, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

Here’s another letter from Benjamin R. Tucker relating to the publishing trade, which refers to his experiences publishing the Weekly Bulletin of Newspaper and Periodical Literature, one of three non-political papers he published—the others were […]

E. Armand, “Little Manual of the Individualist Anarchist” (1911)

October 23, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_2third] My translation of E. Armand’s “Mini-Manual” was a fairly early effort, and I’ve been meaning to get a revised translation posted for some time now. I originally tackled the sections that had not been […]

The Gilded Edge of Hell – a tale by Voltairine de Cleyre

October 23, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

THE GILDED EDGE OF HELL Mr. Editor:–The broad roll of the Delaware flashed back a white water-glisten at the full moon. Fifteen or twenty vessels spread their white wings to the slow breeze, or sent […]

Archive upgrades, III

October 22, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

The Libertarian Labyrinth clean-up advances, step by step: I’ve made it through the “A”s in a roughly linear fashion—with lots of side trips to deal with all the old problems, new listings and such that […]

Two new publications of interest

October 21, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

At long last, Crispin Sartwell’s Josiah Warren anthology, “The Practical Anarchist,” has been published by Fordham University Press. It’s a very nice collection, the sort of thing that will give readers insight into both Warren’s […]

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Month: October 2011

Eliphalet Kimball in 1873

The return of “From the Libertarian Library”

Steven T. Byington, “On Interference with the Environment”

Eliphalet Kimball for President! in 1852

Archive upgrades, IV

Benjamin R. Tucker in Printers’ Ink, 1892

E. Armand, “Little Manual of the Individualist Anarchist” (1911)

The Gilded Edge of Hell – a tale by Voltairine de Cleyre

Archive upgrades, III

Two new publications of interest