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Google Books is hiding things again

July 13, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

More stupid search engine tricks. Back in May, I noted some peculiarities of Google Books’ search engines. If you follow the links from that original post, you will notice some new peculiarities, including the disappearance […]

Bits of Liberty’s History

July 12, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

Labors of love are notoriously bad at paying the rent, and other work has been a little slow, so I’m digging into my personal archive a bit to keep a roof over my head while […]

Burke + Warren, 1850

July 12, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

In an article on “Anarchism in England Fifty Years Ago,” reprinted in the February 1906 issue of Liberty, Max Nettlau discussed two very early anarchist publications printed in England. One of these was an edition […]

Reading around / Dyer D. Lum’s Alarm

July 9, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’ve been reading pretty broadly lately, pulling together articles related to the Liberty archive project and Utopia, OH, the Josiah Warren anthology. That’s taken me into the pages of The Egoist, where Benjamin Tucker, Bolton […]

Cohn and Wilbur, What’s Wrong with Postanarchism

July 8, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

What’s Wrong With Postanarchism? http://www.anarchist-studies.org/article/articleview/26/1/1/ by Jesse Cohn and Shawn Wilbur What is now being called “postanarchism” by some thinkers, including Saul Newman, can take on many forms, but the term generally refers to an […]

Independence Days

July 4, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

Happy 4th of July! May we celebrate independence in all its best senses. All these days seem to get overrun by commercial and governmental concerns, which obscures what is radical and oppositional about the events […]

“Josiah Warren” (poem) (1874)

June 29, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] JOSIAH WARREN. Who gave the world the boldest thought, That ever has by man been taught, And set the pride of wealth at naught? Josiah Warren. Who gave […]

Josiah Warren, a Most Unlikely Internationalist

June 29, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] Josiah Warren was, famously, not a joiner. He habitually quarreled with anyone who suggested that he had followers or had founded a school. By his own […]

Eliphalet Kimball, Suggestions

June 29, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

Eliphalet Kimball, “Suggestions,” Woodhull and Claflin’s Weekly, 8, 3 (June 20, 1874), 4. SUGGESTIONS. The reasons are many and powerful why husband and wife should not sleep in the same bed or even the same […]

Josiah Warren and the I. W. A. – Documents

June 29, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

“The International,” Woodhull and Claflin’s Weekly,” 6, 5 (July 5, 1873), 3. THE INTERNATIONAL. The meeting of the American Federal Council on Sunday was well attended, and a vacancy was filled by the election of […]