Kirkpatrick Sale is the author of 17 books, including the recently reissued Human Scale (1980/2017) and SDS (1973/2023). This is excerpted from his newly published Ruminations (2023), available for purchase at https://autonomedia.org/product/ruminations-by-kirkpatrick-sale.
Kirkpatrick Sale
Articles by Kirkpatrick Sale
The Answer is Division
There's no place that division would not make things better. I don't say utopian, just better.
Buddhist Economics: The Eight-Fold Path
Cold Spring, N.Y. In order to get people thinking rightly about economists, Fritz Schumacher used to tell the story of an architect, a priest, and an economist talking about which…
Let’s Get Rid of the Economy of Growth
Cold Spring, NY--It's getting worse and worse, and the wizards don't have a clue. They don't even know the economy is broken-and can't be fixed. That's why they keep doing…
The Importance of Growing Up Village
Cold Spring, NY. Leopold Kohr, the author of the great classic, The Breakdown of Nations, once said that his approach to the world--in favor of smaller nations, smaller institutions, smaller…
Taking Secession Seriously–At Last
Mt. Pleasant, SC--As little as I wished to make my first post for FPR an overtly political essay on contemporary affairs--I had meant to rumination growing up in a small…