Between Christianity and the Libertarian Left: How Wide the Gap?

by Marc B. Young

Although it might make a decent news story in some media outlets, an article about the ways in which Christians and secular radicals collaborate, on a variety of issues, probably doesn’t need to take up space in a publication read primarily by activists. After all, every leftist knows that anarchists, communists, greens, socialists and Christians (at least Catholics, Quakers and members of ‘main-stream’ Protestant denominations) regularly end up on the same side of rallies against, for example, war and in support of immigrants.

Obedience to Authority

by Tariq Khan

Most evil acts in the world are not committed by abnormally mean psychopaths. They are committed by quite ordinary people who are “just doing their jobs”. Most murder, torture, and destruction in and of the world is perfectly legal and is carried out by civilized, well-mannered, average individuals who are “just fulfilling their duties” to governments, businesses, and religions. They’re “just trying to make a living”.

Why Progressives Should Vote Nader

by Ashley Sanders

I am asking you to vote for Ralph Nader who, like a good radical, has stopped tinkering with a broken machine to ask, “Why this machine?” True, he does not junk the machine entirely—he believes in regulated capitalism, representative government, and the rule of law. But he refuses to base his political philosophy on principles that defy our personal sense of ethics; his political vision is expansive and transformative—it is not an exclusive plan for American dominance, but a persistent question as to why politics is based on exclusivity and dominance.