Today it is common to define democracy as a system of “majority rule.” Unfortunately. This claim is false in three…[Continue]

Sunday I joined some Bay Area libertarians for dinner and conversation at a Chinese restaurant in Berkeley.  I had been…[Continue]

Why do modern  societies find the Earth a largely silent backdrop to human affairs while non-literate ones in particular did…[Continue]

UPDATE 4/26, 5/2 I have written a number of critiques of libertarian thinking recently, one a chapter in a just…[Continue]

When David Abram’s Becoming Animal first came out I published a review on Beliefnet.  The Alliance for Wild Ethics  later…[Continue]

Libertarian Pagans at Witches and Pagans have pretty much avoided my arguments regarding libertarianism and its shortcomings, arguing that libertarianism…[Continue]

Enough of critiques! I have a new post up on Patheos that looks at how Pagan spirituality is a corrective…[Continue]

After some frustrating encounters with Pagans who called themselves libertarians I decided to write why Pagans once had a libertarian…[Continue]

The libertarian Mercatus Center at George Mason University has just released a report arguing that North Dakota is the freest…[Continue]

At a recent conference on Aldo Leopold and his work hardly anyone in the panels mentioned what Leopold might be…[Continue]