Tripp York

That Holy Anarchist

I have such cool friends. I really do. You will, therefore, have to forgive me (literally–just ask Jesus) if in the next few weeks I spend some quality time highlighting their stellar work. From farming to animal liberation to books on the grotesque, I’m going to show you just how awesome I am due to […]

Tripp York

Apocalyptic Refusals

Many of you know I’ve published a few shoddy articles on why you shouldn’t vote. Not simply because it’s a religious ritual of the state, which it is, but also due to our direct complicity that occurs when we put yet another killer in office. “But if you don’t vote, then you’re just as complicit […]

Tripp York

Never Mind the (Heterosexist) Bollocks, Here’s Jamie Heckert

Jamie Heckert, PhD (University of Edinburgh), is a founding member of Anarchist Studies Network, a practitioner of integral yoga, and the co-editor of Anarchism & Sexuality: Ethics, Relationships and Power (and here’s a lovely link to the introduction: read me!!). Just imagine what would have happened if Emma Goldman popped out a baby with Michel […]

Tripp York

Anarchism & Sexuality: Ethics, Relationships and Power

I have to get out of this bad habit of taking on too many books at once. I get all gung-ho about reviewing anything that appears interesting to me–well, as gung-ho as a Mennonite can get (I’m lapsed, so it’s pretty damn easy)–and then I realize I’m behind on about two dozen book reviews. In this case, however, […]

Tripp York

That Guy Ain’t No Johnny Rotten (or Derrick Jensen, or John Zerzan, or Perry Cox)

“I won’t be satisfied until the last ‘christian anarchist’ is hung from the guts of the last ‘national anarchist’.” –An anonymous anarchist that, I hope, will go through much of life relatively unsatisfied. Check out the quote just below it from the same source (once you click on the above link, you have to scroll […]

Michael Van Dyke

Anarchist Imperatives and Fundamental Change

This essay argues that an anarchist critique of institutions needs to reemerge in America in order to deepen our political life and make fundamental changes imaginable.