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New Alchemists and Ocean Arks

August 17, 2005 Shawn P. Wilbur

Nancy Jack Todd has recently written another book, A Safe and Sustainable World: The Promise of Ecological Design, a brief history of the work of the New Alchemy Institute, Ocean Arks International, and recent research […]

Evolution? Ah, What the Heck. Teach the Controversy.

August 16, 2005 Shawn P. Wilbur

But teach it well! I’ve been reading a lot of new responses to the attempts to get “intelligent design” included in science curricula. There’s obviously a lot of concern out there that students will no […]

On Why You Can’t Beat a (Real) Book for Research

August 10, 2005 Shawn P. Wilbur

Something wasn’t looking right. It certainly seemed unlikely to me that the scholars of transcendentalism, who, after all, have been mining a very small body of texts for a very long time now, could have […]

Just a bit more on Greene and Transcendentalism

August 8, 2005 Shawn P. Wilbur

Philip F. Gura has a useful article, “Beyond Transcendentalism: The Radical Individualism of William B. Greene,” in a collection called Transient and Permanent: The Transcendentalist Movement and Its Contexts (Mass. Historical Soc., 1999), edited by […]

William B. Greene, “Song of Espousal” (1840)

August 7, 2005 Shawn P. Wilbur

We find in the “TOKEN” for 1841, the following beautiful poem from the pen of Lieut. GREENE, son our our esteemed Postmaster, Nathaniel Greene, Esq. It breathes the very soul of martial poesy, and resembles in spirit the celebrated “Sword Song” of Kerner, which once rung through the German forces, calling them to valiant deeds.–Boston Eve. Gazette

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Mutualist and transcendentalist bits — William B. Greene

August 6, 2005 Shawn P. Wilbur

William Batchelder Greene (1818-1878), the “American Proudhon,” is a strangely underdocumented character, given his importance to the individualist anarchist tradition. He has yet to find his biographer, though many of his contemporaries considered his life […]

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New Alchemists and Ocean Arks

Evolution? Ah, What the Heck. Teach the Controversy.

On Why You Can’t Beat a (Real) Book for Research

Just a bit more on Greene and Transcendentalism

William B. Greene, “Song of Espousal” (1840)

Mutualist and transcendentalist bits — William B. Greene

Radical Parables

Post-anarchism: Instead of an Essay

Not Our Grandparents’ War, etc

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