Cato Institute Publishes Leftist Screed!, Pars Septima
Dec 07Kevin Carson offers an excellent, lengthy reply to some of the critical commentary on my Cato Unbound piece. More from me L8R.
Exarchy
Dec 07This report gives a bit more of the background to the recent anarchist riots in Athens, but not much. Having walked through Exarchia last spring, I have to laugh at the story’s description of it as a “dense warren of concrete”; if all that means is that there are lots of narrow streets criss-crossing between [...]
DeCleyrations of Independence
Dec 07In a letter to her mother Harriet de Claire in 1893, Voltairine de Cleyre wrote: “to me, any dependence, any thing which destroys the complete selfhood of the individual, is in the line of slavery …. It is communism, and communism, in any form, is revolting to me.” In the same year, in her speech [...]
Forrest J. Ackerman R.I.P.
Dec 07The man who coined the term sci-fi (unless he didn’t) has died. Hobbits mourn him. Vorlons don’t.
Hugo on Ressentiment
Dec 07In 1869, several years before Nietzsche published his famous analysis of ressentiment in such works as Thus Spoke Zarathustra’s “Flies of the Marketplace” or The Genealogy of Morals’ “Good and Evil, Good and Bad,” Victor Hugo published his novel The Man Who Laughs. In the following chapters Hugo offers a striking anticipation of Nietzsche: Barkilphedro [...]
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