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Understanding Democracy II: Fallacies about majority rule
Today it is common to define democracy as a system of “majority rule.” Unfortunately. This claim is false in three…
Understanding Democracy, part I: Democracies are not states
Sunday I joined some Bay Area libertarians for dinner and conversation at a Chinese restaurant in Berkeley. I had been…
The Silence of the Earth
Why do modern societies find the Earth a largely silent backdrop to human affairs while non-literate ones in particular did…
What Libertarians can add to American life – if they take the time to understand their principles
UPDATE 4/26, 5/2 I have written a number of critiques of libertarian thinking recently, one a chapter in a just…
David Abram’s Becoming Animal: one of the most important environmental books of our time
When David Abram’s Becoming Animal first came out I published a review on Beliefnet. The Alliance for Wild Ethics later linked to my review in their own descriptions of the book. Since then I left Beliefnet and they have not maintained the formatting. The original post is a pain in the ass to read if you are patient enough to wait for it to come up. But Abram’s book is extraordinarily important. As Earth Day approaches I decided to repost the original review in a readable and accessible form. The only changes are removing references to Becoming Animal’s just being published and replacing a reference to a book by George Lakoff with another to a book by Lakoff and Mark Johnson. more »