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September 16, 2025

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Josiah Warren Project

September 15, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur
Crispin Sartwell has launched the Josiah Warren Project, an archive and collection of resources by and about Warren. There are some very rare items already in the archive, including material from the Peaceful Revolutionist and […]
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Notes on “The Index,” etc.

September 13, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur
I’ve now worked through six of the first eight volumes of the free religionist paper, The Index, and it strikes me that we’re going to have to revise somewhat our sense of what the important […]
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A Look at Wikipedia

September 13, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur
Monday morning, as I was getting ready to head out the door to campus, NPR’s Morning Edition aired a story about Wikipedia–mostly positive. The next day, the Wall Street Journal hosted one of their mini-debates, […]
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How To Escape the Coin Monopoly (1895)

September 7, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur
It’s a good week for currency cranks. I was working through some microfiched pamphlets from John Zube’s Libertarian Microfiche Project, trying to work my way through this “roll call” phase of my researches on mutual […]
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Readings: weeks 2 and 3

September 7, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur
I know a few folks are following this who don’t have access to the syllabus, so here are the relevant readings for the last two weeks: A Model of Christian Charity (1630) The Simple Cobbler […]
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The Problem of Tolerance

September 7, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur
At its limits, tolerance can be explosive, deadly. In our readings about religious conflicts in colonial New England, we’ve seen that the stakes of differences of opinion could be raised to the point where those […]
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What Mutualism Was-III: “A Mutualist” of 1826

September 5, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur
This is the third in a series of explorations of the mutualist tradition—or, perhaps more appropriately, traditions. The particular perspective they present is, as I’ve said, somewhat revisionist. It has been some time since I’ve […]
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Politics of Tolerance in Puritan Massachusetts

September 5, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur
The materials we are looking at this week all revolve around questions of religious tolerance, and the more extreme consequences of stepping “outside the envelope” of what could be tolerated in Puritan Massachusetts. The Simple […]
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On Lysander Spooner’s tummy

September 4, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur
As it turns out, physician and temperance reformer Diocletian (“Dio”) Lewis (1823-1886) was a friend of Lysander Spooner, and Spooner features in Lewis’ book, Talks about People’s Stomachs (1870). I was unfamiliar with Lewis until […]
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Ezra Heywood vs. Elizur Wright: The “Family Bank” Debate

September 4, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur
I’ve resumed my work extracting significant debates from The Index with an 1876 exchange between Ezra H. Heywood and Elizur Wright on the “Family Bank.” Heywood takes the standard anti-usury line, while Wright, who was […]

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