Anarchists Among Us: 5 Anarchists Commonly Read in Schools
bySince Occupy Wall Street in 2011, more people than ever have been talking about anarchism as a political philosophy and movement. While some may…
Commentary
Anarchist perspectives on current events.
Masking Oppression as “Free Speech”: An Anarchist Take
byOut of necessity as much as out of conviction, anarchists in the United States have long been champions of the right to freely express…
Creating a Culture of Joyful Consent
byPart 2 in an Agency series: Confronting Sexual Assault on Campus I’ve never called myself a survivor of sexual assault. What happened to me…
Beyond a Radical Minority: An Interview with Anarchist Writer Chris Dixon
byIntroducing Agency’s Anarchist Profiles Series Chris Dixon’s Another Politics: Talking Across Today’s Transformative Movements, published last year by University of California Press, is a…
Changing the Conversation: The Need for an Anarchist Lens on Campus Sexual Assault
byPart 1 in an Agency series: Confronting Sexual Assault on Campus In May, despite administrative efforts to prevent her from doing so, Emma Sulkowicz,…
On the Anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
byAddressing an adoring crowd in Prague not long after he entered office in 2009, President Barack Obama promised to aggressively pursue US ratification of…
Mass Incarceration and Bipartisan Unity: An Anarchist Perspective
byAs momentum builds behind the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, I begin to wonder how much time and energy will be pulled away from the…
Democratic Government: It Works!
byIt’s over. Yesterday, Washington’s political/business elite conjured up the 60 votes needed to end debate in the Senate on Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), the…
Beyond Crime and Punishment: On Holding Bill Cosby Accountable and Ending Rape Culture
byBy upholding certain people as exceptional, we reinforce stereotypes about those who don’t reach such powerful heights – and we obscure how power imbalances are built into our political system through laws, attitudes, and policies that affect how we relate in our homes, schools, workplaces, and other social institutions.
An Anarchist Response to Ebola | Part Two: Envisioning an Anarchist Alternative
byAnarchists are part of the global conversation on what’s broken in the world, but when things really fall apart—like with the current Ebola outbreak—is the state the only answer? How might a stateless society respond to a challenge like this one?