I’ve been thinking a lot recently about authority and, in particular, its relationship to a non-coercive way of being. I plan to write a long and considered essay about this, but for that to happen I need to write lots of smaller chunks along the way. This is the first. The way I see it, there are actually two kinds of authority that are often and unknowingly conflated. This conflation has huge implications for our relationship to authority, whether external (e.
