By: Matthew Battles

A vision of knowledge and cooperation, taken by the wind.

By: Lynn Peril

She refused to give up everything when she said, “I do.”

By: Tor Aarestad

He produced lovely typewriters and radical theories of decentralized power.

By: Brian Berger

“A siren song sung in bass.”

By: Peggy Nelson

Jeff Coudriet, and the afterlife on Facebook.

By: Brian Berger

“I’m not a humanitarian, I’m a hell-raiser!”

By: Matthew Battles

Wisconsin’s Sand County lacks the grandeur of the Sierras that inspired John Muir. Its modest landscapes of meadows, streams, and oak savannas do not exhibit the sublime extremes of the ocean that furnished Rachel Carson […]

By: Joshua Glenn

“Nature has the habit of now and then producing a type of human being far in advance of the times; an ideal for us to emulate; a being devoid of sham, uncompromising, and to whom […]

By: Lucy Sante

“Don’t waste time in mourning. Organize.”

By: Lynn Peril

As a visiting nurse in New York’s tenements at the turn of the 20th century, MARGARET SANGER (1879-1966) once heard a woman recovering from a self-induced abortion beg her doctor for information on how to […]

By: Jason Grote

As a kid, my upbringing pulled me in divergent directions: on my mother’s side, an urban technophile Jewishness (inspired, in part by her own lack of nostalgia for her childhood on a chicken farm) and […]

By: Joshua Glenn

“Ready for the revolution!”

By: Tor Aarestad

What was it about EMMA GOLDMAN (1867-1940) that made her, at the turn of the twentieth century, the most dangerous woman in America? Was it her early support of violent Attentats, such as her partner […]