The desert and the settlement: three American anarchists
Akshay Ahuja reviews A Paradise Built in Hell, Good News, and The Long Loneliness.
book review
If you’re not doing politics, you’re not doing enough
If you look closely, you’ll see that local government is not just something you need to get around and that you don’t, in fact, have to fight City Hall. Indeed, City Hall may be just waiting for you to walk through the front door and take your place as an active citizen.
Cheer up — things really are as bad as you think
So, it’s up to local communities around the world to save themselves. Three new books will inspire you to join the effort while helping you achieve the calm and cool mind you’ll need to succeed.
Review: Starvation Ridge by Risa Stephanie Bear
What geographical area offers the best chance of survival during the coming oil shortage?
Slow Democracy
What we have now is the McDonald’s of democracy.
Review: Too Much Magic by James Kunstler
…Kunstler has a new work of social criticism titled Too Much Magic, his first nonfiction book since The Long Emergency came out in 2005. The book is an inquiry into a skewed, delusional perception of reality that Kunstler thinks has become “baseline normal for the American public lately.” Americans, he says, have been led astray by the incredible technological advancements of recent times. We’ve come to believe that any problem we face is solvable—as if by magic—with the application of some new technology.
