"If we wish to stop the atrocities, we need merely to step away from the isolation. There is a whole world waiting for us, ready to welcome us home." Derrick Jensen
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Liberals and the New McCarthyism
August 10th, 2015It’s easy enough, some sixty years after the fact, for us to cluck our tongues at the cowardice and stupidity of those who went along with McCarthyism. It’s especially easy for liberals and academics to say that had they been alive back then, they would certainly have had the courage to stand up for discourse […]
Read More... Filed in EssaysDestroy the World… and Feel Good About It
July 1st, 2015I have been sometimes labeled an environmental extremist, primarily because I believe the real world is more important than the economy, and because I believe we should do whatever is necessary to stop this extractive culture from killing the planet that is our only home. Labeling someone an extremist is a standard rhetorical device to […]
Read More... Filed in EssaysEndangered species don’t need an Ark – they need a Living Planet!
June 11th, 2015Last year I read an Op-Ed in the New York Times entitled ‘Building an Ark for the Sociopocene’. No, I lied. It was entitled ‘Building an Ark for the Anthropocene‘. But can’t you imagine how the article might have read were it accurately titled to reflect the sociopathic nature of the world we have created? […]
Read More... Filed in EssaysConfronting industrialism: if you can’t clean it up, don’t make it!
March 4th, 2015Some of the most important questions confronting us are: what should we do about this culture’s industrial wastes, from greenhouse gases to pesticides to ocean microplastics? Can the capitalists clean up the messes they create? Or is the whole industrial system beyond reform? The answers become clear with a little context. Let’s start the discussion […]
Read More... Filed in EssaysResponse to John Stoltenberg: Andrea Dworkin & Transphobia
February 7th, 2015This letter was originally published at Gender Detective, with the following introduction: About a year ago, pro-feminist author John Stoltenberg wrote a very disturbing article entitled “Andrea Dworkin Was Not Transphobic” for the website Feminist Times. In response, Jonah Mix wrote an open letter. John Stoltenberg’s response is in the comments of that open letter. […]
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