The Babbitt Fallacy, and Other Ways to Lose | John Michael Greer

Feb. 21, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- I’ve been thinking quite a bit about some of the habits of thought that form, or rather deform, the collective conversation of our time. Partly, of course, that’s bec ...

BOOKS: Notes On A Foreign Country, by Suzy Hansen | Emanuele Corso

Emanuele Corso -- World News Trust Oct. 3, 2017 I don’t very often publish book reviews but, in this case, I believe this book to be of great value to anyone trying to make sense of where our country ...

Our Shoggoths, Ourselves | John Michael Greer

Shoggoth by Nottsuo. Artwork inspired by H .P. Lovecraft's short novel At the Mountains of Madness. Oct. 4, 2017 (EcoSophia.net) -- There are many ways I could talk about the point I want to make in ...

The Death of God: A Speculation | John Michael Greer

Edmund Dulac’s woodcut of the Wheel of the 28 Phases of the Moon (1937 version; A Vision B 66). Image from yeatsvision.comSept. 6, 2017 (EcoSopia.net) -- I have been reading William Butler Yeats’ str ...

The Worlds That Never Were | John Michael Greer

Aug. 16, 2017 (Ecosophia.net) -- In order to finish sorting out the foundations for the project this blog will pursue, I want to talk a little more about science fiction. That’s not the digression th ...

Donald Trump And The Coming Fall Of The American Empire | Jeremy Scahill

Illustration: Elise Swain for The Intercept Famed historian Alfred McCoy interviewed by The Intercept's Jeremy Scahill July 22, 2017 (The Intercept) -- Even as President Donald Trump faces ever-inten ...

Thoughts on 'It Can’t Happen Here' | Emanuele Corso

Emanuele Corso -- World News Trust I wrote this essay last November following the election. I was disheartened, to say the least, and I am republishing here as a reflection on current developments an ...

BOOKS: The End of Patriarchy: Radical Feminism for Men | Mickey Z. interviews Robert Jensen

By Ryan McGuire. gratisography.com Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Jan. 10, 2017 “It seemed that there was a need for a book that laid out the problem of patriarchy in plain language.” (Robert Jensen) ...

BOOKS: Through a Glass Darkly: A Poetry Review - I Remember My Name

Reviewed by Hatim Kanaaneh World News Trust Aug. 22, 2016 (I Remember My Name -- Poetry by Samah Sabawi, Ramzy Baroud and Jehan Bseiso. Vacy Vlazna, ed., 2016, Novum Publishing. Kindle Edition.) In p ...

In Praise of the Reprehensible | John Michael Greer

John Michael GreerJuly 22, 2016 (Archdruid Report) -- Last month’s post here on cultural senility and its antidotes discussed the way that modern education erases the past in order to defend today’s ...

“Activism”: How to Lose Friends & Influence Nobody | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust June 16, 2016 I’ve already told you how nothing I’ve done as an “activist” has made a difference, explained why street “activism” always fails (a ...