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Articles by Sharon Presley
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Accountability? Dear Editor, I just finished reading Rep. Buddy Carter’s article “In-justice System” in the Charlton County Herald. What came to mind was the old saying about the pot calling the kettle black. His comments about our current President were spot on. However, one sentence in particular was a bit hypocritical.
Exquisite Rebel
Preface by Candace Falk Acknowledgments Part I: Biographical Essays: Three Views of Voltairine de Cleyre "Priestess of Pity and Vengeance" by Crispin Sartwell "The Exquisite Rebel: The Anarchist Life of Voltairine de Cleyre" by Sharon Presley "Emma Goldman's 'Voltairine de Cleyre': A Moving but Flawed Tribute" by Sharon Presley "Voltairine de Cleyre" by Emma Goldman Part II: Loving Freedom: Anarchism Without Adjectives Introduction by Sharon Presley "Why I am an Anarchist" "Anarchism" "Events...
Free Speech for Me but Not for Thee
Drawing on her memories of the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley, Presley calls for a renewed commitment to free speech on college campuses. The title of Nat Hentoff’s book could be the slogan of the month. Or the year. The flurry of attacks on free speech by students and even some professors has reached a fever pitch this last month. Students at Yale spit on attendees at a talk on free speech.
To PC or Not to PC
“Politically correct” statements and positions are a favorite target of many libertarians and libertarian groups. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), for example, posted an article about “disinvitations,” “i.e., efforts to prevent invited speakers from conveying their message on campus,” saying that such incidents have increased over the years.
Mutual Aid Is Not Just Historical: Modern Alternative Services
One of the most common criticisms of libertarianism is that it is too utopian, too impractical; it can never work, they say. Few people can imagine how the services that people need in any society could be provided except by government. This is especially true of services for the poor—welfare, health care, etc. Only government is capable of helping the poor, they say. Yet such social services have in fact been provided by private groups before in American history and still do.
Libertarian Feminism: An Honorable Tradition
Libertarian feminism is part of an honorable individualist tradition in America. Contrary to what some may think, the first feminist activists were not socialists, they were individualists and libertarians. Though women have been resisting the State for centuries, the first explicit resistance to oppression of women started with individualist Mary Wollstonecraft in England and Judith Sargent Murray in 18th century America.
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