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Since class members will be wrapping up their work for the semester with a response to Kevin Carson’s “A Strategic Green-Libertarian Alliance,” we need to spend a little time dealing with the two keywords: libertarian […]

Anyone who has used Google Books much is used to the odd scans of binding, covers, fingers, etc. Occasionally, we get something really special from their rather odd scanning methods. Check out this nice bit […]

More proof that “full text” translates to something like randomly indexed. While searching for something else, I came across this letter from A MEMBER OF A COMMUNITY, the name used in the first few “Mutualist” […]

Teddy Bears, and squatting and police violence, oh my! Maybe you’re wondering what this particular title is doing here. Once upon a time, when I was pamphleting more than blogging, I very slightly detourned an […]

The land bank tradition was aimed at providing a currency adequate to ordinary trade and improvement, generally alongside some form of government currency. The largely rural population suffered from shortages of currency, thanks to fluctuations in the supply of specie and various sorts of controls on the number of bills circulating which kept economic power in the hands of those with political clout. What the partisans of the land banks proposed was another form of “monetized credit.”

I’m currently working a lot on the years 1825-27 in America, the high-water mark period for Robert Owen’s influence in the U.S., as well as the period out of which the “Mutualist” of 1826 emerges. […]

My notebooks are full of leading, if perhaps unanswerable, questions and what-if‘s regarding radical history. At one time, when my focus was on the tag-end of antebellum utopian socialism movements in the postbellum era, I […]

God and Government: John Cotton, Letter to Lord Say and Sele (1636). John Winthrop, Essay Against the Power of the Church To Sit in Judgement on the Civil Magistracy (1637) Samuel Willard, The Character of […]

We have become accustomed to thinking that science and religion are fundamentally at odds. Debates over school science curricula—to pick one recent example—play out in the mass media as if only two polar positions were […]