Over the past several years I had become increasingly disillusioned by a contradiction I saw among a great many libertarians. While they espoused an ideology that attacked coercion against peaceful people as a basic, perhaps most basic, element in their thinking about society, their actions in practice were quite different.| Gus diZerega
I obviously do not believe Biblical prophecies have a divine source in any sense. At the same time, I am fascinated by the power coherent images and attitudes have to influence people’s perceptions and experiences, especially when shared by many … Read more| Gus diZerega
Academically, I am a Political Scientist and a Gardnerian Witch, in both cases for about 40 years. I encountered the Craft soon after gaining my Ph.D. at Berkeley. I cut my ideological teeth as a young conservative in high school … Read more| Gus diZerega
Gus diZerega 6/28/2021 As I have watched, read, and engaged in discussions about Critical Race Theory (CRT), I discovered people advocating it often use very different definitions. When this diversity is ignored, as it often is, debates can become acrimonious … Read more| Gus diZerega
Some years back I was dealing with the woke claim that a transwoman is a woman, PERIOD, and trying to find a way to get through the mindless chant and reach the intelligence it suppressed. One of the things this … Read more| Gus diZerega
One of the most important research projects for me personally, perhaps the most important, is better understanding perceptions about “place” within many indigenous peoples’ cultures. Over and over …| Gus diZerega
Latest Revison 12/13//2020 Based on a paper delivered at “Paganism and its Discontents,” March 15, 2019. Cherry Hill Seminary, University of South Carolina The American Heathen communit…| Gus diZerega
Introduction This essay analyzes hotly contested issues within the contemporary American Pagan community. The arguments creating such discord rely on holding two contradictory positions at th…| Gus diZerega
People frequently discuss fascism in America today, in no small part because we now have a significant fascist movement in this country. But many different groups use the term in many different way…| Gus diZerega
God is Dead, Long Live the Gods: A case for polytheism Why does polytheism make more sense than monotheism?Why do monotheistic religions always manifest as confused forms of polytheism? Why ar…| Gus diZerega