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Has the Revolution Started Yet?

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On November 9, 2013
Since this brilliant plot was hatched in 2010, surely the revolution must have started by now, no? There is much to embrace about Burning Man. Since its beginning it has been a radical, counter-cultural gathering, where space is carved out for people to be free...

The Tyranny of Consensus

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On August 9, 2013
One chapter of my book is on Oregon reforestation cooperatives from the 1970s who found their countercultural work ideal disrupted when the Forest Service sprayed them with pesticides. One of the key members of the main cooperative, known as the Hoedads, was Gerry Mackie. After...

Ideological Summer Camps

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On December 23, 2012
This amusing piece by Charles Davis on how he went to capitalist summer camp and became a communist reminded me of this old Yglesias approval of a pretty cheap shot at Pete Seeger's communism seventy years ago. Yglesias' major complaint with his summer camp was...

Anti-left?

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On December 13, 2012

What does it mean to be a leftist? Let me start by saying that this is a pretty wankertastic question. Who cares, right? I think a discussion of the merits.

I like Tom Philpott's work at Mother Jones, but this piece connecting Americans' disposable society and clothing with malnutrition around the world had one point that bothered me. I think in principle the article's idea is a good one. Our clothing purchases have skyrocketed in...
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