Editorials.

by the Editor   I probably did enough editorializing this month in my response to Dennis Dunleavy’s The Internet:  One View , so I’ll just mention a few other pieces I think are particularly important on the site this month and shut up. (And by the way, welcome, Dennis, welcome.) Brian Griffith’s Desertification and World Security sounds as a dry … [Read more...] about The January 2008 Issue

We Need the Goddess Back by the Editor  One of the basic ideas here at EAP, which you probably share or you wouldn’t be reading this, is that the Everyday is where we’re grounded.  It’s where we’re born and where we stay.  It’s our home, damn it, and as there’s no other home out there, we’d better be careful with … [Read more...] about We Need the Goddess Back

Other Points of View by the Editor This month, EAP’s interested in stepping outside of that space where we all agree what’s reasonable and what’s not.  We want to have a look at what else is out there -- kind of like the fish taking a step out of the water.  You might gasp for breath but it’s worth the trip.  There’s … [Read more...] about Other Points of View

Sail Away by the Editor   Alice Nutter says something beautiful about the anarchist punk rock band Chumbawamba when she describes the band and the friends she made in it like this:  “We’d run away to sea together and the ship had never sunk.” I thought about this yesterday when Alex and I were sitting with two of our own friends, a joyfully … [Read more...] about Sail Away

Get Out of Jail Free by the Editor EAP thinks a lot about prisons.  In fact, it’s named for a film by the director Luis Bunuel -- Exterminating Angel -- where a lot of rich people sit down to dinner and then find afterwards that they can’t leave the house.  No explanation for why not -- they just can’t.  They can talk to people outside … [Read more...] about Get Out of Jail Free