America: The Jesuit Review, “Under the Gaze of Dorothy Day: Living with my grandmother’s faith”
Growing up with Dorothy and the Catholic Worker as part of my family, I picked up quite a tangle of odd phrases while lingering around the grown ups: voluntary and involuntary poverty, Christian anarchism, pacifism, the works of mercy, houses of hospitality, the primacy of conscience. I made what I could of them, growing into […]
NPR, “An ‘Intimate Portrait’ Of Dorothy Day, The Catholic Activist With A Bohemian Past”
DAVIES: So this was an interesting and often turbulent life that she led. And this was a time when, you know, in the early part of the 20th century when capitalism was associated by a lot of people with war and exploitation, you know, rather than shared prosperity. And there were anarchists and socialists and […]
The New Yorker, “A Guide to Religious Anarchy: Gershom Scholem’s Kabbalah”
This is a formula for religious anarchy, and Scholem was perfectly aware of that implication. As a young man, he’d been attracted to political anarchism, especially as embodied in the work of Gustav Landauer, a leading German-Jewish theorist of the movement. Though Scholem ultimately could not overcome his skepticism about the social-governance program of anarchist […]
The Village Voice, “Dorothy Day, The Patron Saint For Our New Era Of Resistance”
She lived the life of bohemian activist, drinking with Eugene O’Neill, protesting in the streets, interviewing Trotsky, having love affairs (one of which ended with an abortion), and traveling in Europe. She fell into a relationship with an anarchist and gave birth to a daughter, Tamar, which drew her closer to the Catholic Church. She […]
Here & Now (Boston), “How 3 American Families Went Off The Grid In Search Of A Simpler Life”
Some people I met at an anarchist collective told me they had gone there to launch a monthlong bike ride devoted to service—a ride they’d all done dressed as superheroes. But in these instantly searchable times, it was surprisingly hard to find out more. The alliance was shrouded in analog mystery: no website or social […]
America: The Jesuit Review, “Why we should listen to anarchists in the age of Trump”
Anarchism is not content with any form of coercion, whether by countries or corporations or an electoral college. It is skeptical of all pretenders to authority, like God’s warnings about kings in the Hebrew Bible and Jesus’ indifference to the powers that pretended to rule Palestine in his time. This is the anarchism, for instance, […]
The Atlantic, “Seeking an Escape From Trump’s America”
For the last eight years, Nicolas and Rachel Sarah have been slowly weaning themselves off fossil fuels. They don’t own a refrigerator or a car; their year-old baby and four-year-old toddler play by candlelight rather than electricity at night. They identify as Christian anarchists, and have given an official name to their search for an […]
The Buffalo News, “A granddaughter’s portrayal of Dorothy Day”
Get ready now for a few paragraphs that detail the complication that describes Dorothy’s life over the next ten years. In 1917, atheism, anarchism, socialism, vegetarianism, women’s rights, free love, free speech, free thought – all were in the air in New York City’s Greenwich Village, our author writes. Continue Reading
Quartz, “Burning Man just moved one step closer to becoming a religion”
Burning Man began in 1986 on Baker Beach in San Francisco. It started as a get-together among friends and members of the anarchist Cacophony Society. As the event moved to the Nevada desert and became more mainstream, it became a draw for celebrities and tech billionaires, causing frustration over “turnkey” camps in recent years and […]