Short essays on freedom, courage, and the quiet refusals no power can compel.
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- What Authority Cannot HoldThere is no front, because the front is everywhere. This post is a response to a New York Times article. The gift link can be found here. Nobody taught Paul Johnson to fight back with his toes. He was shackled to a hospital bed in Minneapolis, his head ringing from blows he says federal agents… Read more: What Authority Cannot Hold
- The Woman at the WindowThere was a woman who worked at a records window, in a building most people entered only once, and only because they had been told to. Her job was small and exact. People came to her with forms; she stamped them and entered their names into a ledger that was collected each evening by someone… Read more: The Woman at the Window
- What Cannot Be OwnedSome things cannot be owned, only suppressed — and suppression is a kind of admission. This is the whole of it, and it is worth saying plainly before anything else is said here. The wish to live unowned is not an invention. It did not arrive with a particular century or a particular flag. It… Read more: What Cannot Be Owned