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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 […]

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 […]

Archive upgrades, II

October 20, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

A thousand is a lot, when it is a thousand articles that have to be checked for complete citations, typos, and formatting, and assigned to enough categories and index pages to be findable. The work […]

Tucker on “fake” translations

October 19, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

Here’s a bit of fun from the 1891 volume of The Bookseller and Newsman, where Benjamin R. Tucker got very actively involved in the debate about translations of Emile Zola’s “Money.” It’s classic Tucker. The […]

Josiah Warren’s Last Letter (from The Index)

October 2, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

JOSIAH WARREN’S LAST LETTER [As our readers have been already informed, Mr. Josiah Warren, the author of True Civilization and other unpretentious little works on social reform, died In Charlestown, Massachusetts, on the fourteenth of […]

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