The Liberator (1831–1865) was a weekly abolitionist newspaper, printed and published in Boston by William Lloyd Garrison and, through 1839, by Isaac Knapp. Religious rather than political, it appealed to the moral conscience of its readers, urging them to demand immediate freeing of the slaves ("immediatism").

Shawn P. Wilbur is still doing important archivist/translation work for historical mutualism/anarchism.

What exactly does the word portable'' mean here? What are the relevant differences between C and anunportable'' assembly language? Here are
three answers.

"Is Littleton's evangelical subculture a solution to the youth alienation that played a role in the Columbine killings, or a reflection of it?"

"But there should be sides. Politics is not only about finding middle ground; it is about building a base on the strength of your own principled positions. Liberals and the left don’t have to meet a revanchist right on its terms. We should be trying to bring over those who might be compelled by our arguments."

Good summary of the Eric McBride case.

See also Against Me!'s "Anna Is A Stool Pigeon":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zKE-LfdM5E

on growing up in the evangelical culture of the 1990s. I was there too

"The difference isn't a matter of style, it's a split between two ways of perceiving the world. In one worldview, emotion is king. Details exist to support emotion."

"The Committee to End Pay Toilets in America, or CEPTIA, was a 1970s grass-roots political organization which was one of the main forces behind the elimination of pay toilets in many American cities and states. "

I also just learned that Leonard Peikoff supported Trump in the recent election. Not a great advertisement for the principles of Objectivism.

This dashboard tracks the availability of popular shadow libraries (Anna's Archive, Library Genesis, Z-Library) in real time from a US-based server

James Pogue's excellent reporting on the intellectual far-right always provides little glimmers of insight, though for the most part I still can't quite make sense of Trumpism. In this article he quotes Sumantra Maitra, of The American Conservative saying "It’s between national capital and international capital." I think that summarizes the outlines of the movement, though the appeals to the cultural right (like the anti-immigration or the general racism) seem to have little to do with giving capitalists more power (or more labor to exploit).

"The law of equal liberty is the fundamental precept of liberalism and socialism. Stated in various ways by many thinkers, it can be summarized as the view that all individuals must be granted the maximum possible freedom as long as that freedom does not interfere with the freedom of anyone else."

He got to choose his own fairly unassailable position statements, but I still think Alex did a fantastic job in this.