Peace Now! Great American Pacifists

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First episode of the new podcast, which will devote an episode each to figures such as Lucretia Mott, William Lloyd Garrison, Dorothy Day, Bayard Rustin, and Judith Butler.

  1. The Profound Ethics of Non-Violence in Judith Butler

    08/15/2025

    The Profound Ethics of Non-Violence in Judith Butler

    One of the most important living intellectual figures, Judith Butler has, in this century, developed a very profound and original pacifist ethics.  I kept using 'she' pronouns right until the end when I suddenly realized it should be 'they.' I am apologizing to them and everyone else.

    32 min
  2. Practical Pacifism (and the Arab Spring): Gene Sharp

    08/06/2025

    Practical Pacifism (and the Arab Spring): Gene Sharp

    Sharp's work on practical ways to transform totalitarian systems non-violently has proven important to resistance movements all over the world, including in the color revolutions and the Arab Spring, in Myanmar and Serbia and elsewhere. His years: 1928-2018. https://commonslibrary.org/198-methods-of-nonviolent-action/: 198 techniques of non-violent resistance

    32 min
  3. Daniel and Philip Berrigan: The Spiritual Poetry and Prose of Non-Violence

    07/28/2025

    Daniel and Philip Berrigan: The Spiritual Poetry and Prose of Non-Violence

    The astonishing Berrigan brothers, Roman Catholic priests and peace activists of total commitment.

    28 min
  4. Effective Spirituality: the Great Cesar Chavez

    07/14/2025

    Effective Spirituality: the Great Cesar Chavez

    A leader of the Farm Workers, and an amazingly effective one, with a beautiful commitment of the most serious kind.

    24 min

  5. 06/11/2025

    Political and Philosophical Entailments

    I argue in this episode that pacifism entails the repudiation of utilitarianism (as well as other forms of teleological ethics) and also anti-statism. Around 20:49 I say 'Dorothy Day' when I mean Jane Addams.

    24 min
  6. Non-Violence of the Spirit: Teachings of Thomas Merton

    06/04/2025

    Non-Violence of the Spirit: Teachings of Thomas Merton

    The great spiritual teacher, Trappist monk, and advocate of universal spirit (1915-1968) and his development of Catholic teachings and Dorothy Day's radicalism and anarchism.

    28 min
  7. A Fundamental Source: Bayard Rustin

    05/20/2025

    A Fundamental Source: Bayard Rustin

    The great civil rights organizer, close collaborator of A.J. Muste, A. Philip Randolph and Martin Luther King, immersed in Gandhi, whose movement he brought to the US. His directness and vulnerability.

    28 min
  8. Dorothy Day Slaps Harry Truman (Peacefully)

    05/10/2025

    Dorothy Day Slaps Harry Truman (Peacefully)

    The founder of the Catholic Worker, prospective saint, helper of all who need and incandescent advocate of peace in World War 2 and Vietnam. The clearest, fastest American protest against the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

    29 min
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First episode of the new podcast, which will devote an episode each to figures such as Lucretia Mott, William Lloyd Garrison, Dorothy Day, Bayard Rustin, and Judith Butler.

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