As the history of past movements all make clear, nothing terrifies those running America more than the danger of true democracy breaking out. As we see in Chicago, Portland, Oakland, and right now in ...

Too often, buzzwords and slogans obscure the deeper meanings behind ideologies, reducing every thought into a binary. Anarchism is one such school of thought which has received backlash from different ...

Merriam-Webster defines anarchism as "a political theory holding all forms of governmental authority to be unnecessary and undesirable and advocating a society based on voluntary cooperation and free ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters. At Vox, our mission is to help you make sense of the world — and that work has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our own. We ...

To be sure, ideological individualism did not fade away altogether during this period of sweeping social unrest. A sizable reservoir of individualist anarchists, especially in the Anglo-American world ...

Andreas Wittel does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Thomas Brzozowski, Adjunct Professor at The George Washington University Law School and U.S. Army Judge Advocate, recently highlighted the critical research of Mauro Lubrano, whose paper “Hidden in ...

The specters that haunt the Western liberal imagination today are not fascism or communism (now confined, nominally, to China, Cuba, Laos, North Korea and Vietnam), but authoritarian ethnonationalism ...

‘Mindless, violent thugs, hell-bent on sowing chaos.’ That’s the kind of press anarchists often get. Uri Gordon provides a more sympathetic take on a growing yet still little understood political ...

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I am sure that many people have written about this subject before. However, this is one of the major questions where the more we write about it, the more clarification and explanation is needed. To ...

October 16: Abolitionist John Brown leads a raid on a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry. October 19: Henry David Thoreau publishes his essay, "A Plea for Captain John Brown," which will later influence ...