Essays - Vegetarianism, Environmentalism, Animal Rights

The Iron Cage of Movement Bureaucracy

My Dog or Your Child? Ethical Dilemmas and the Hierarchy of Moral Value

The New Abolitionism: Capitalism, Slavery and Animal Liberation

Banned in the UK! The Home Office Says "Stay Home" to U.S. Animal Rights Activists

Trial By Fire: The SHAC7 and the Future of Democracy

Legally Blind: The Case For Granting Animals Rights

Thinking Pluralistically

Paul Watson and the Sea Shepard Conservation Society

Defining Terrorism

Animal Rights and the New Enlightenment

Barbarism in the Afternoon: Bullfighting, Violence, and the Crisis in Human Identity

Vaya Con Dios: A Quest For Vegan Food In Spain

The Fresno Frenzy: Invasion of the ALF and ELF

Neo-McCarthyism, the Patriot Act, and the New Surveillance Culture

It's War! The Escalating Battle between Activists and the Corporate-State Complex

The Son of Patriot Act and the Revenge on Democracy

Common Natures, Shared Fates: Towards an Interspecies Alliance Politics

Zoos and the End of Nature

Mountains of Misery: Hoof-and-Mouth Disease Resurfaces in Europe

Planet of the Apes: Where Humans are Slaves

Where Humans Survive and Animals Die

Minding the Animals

Farmaggedon, Frankenfoods, and the FDA

Cows, Cannibalism, Capitalism, and Coverup: The Politics and Economics of Mad Cow Disease

Gandhi: On The Path To Vegetarianism

Vegans: Space Aliens or Compassionate Earthlings?

The Coming Crisis: Environmental Disaster, The Global Meat Culture, And Your Health

The Killing Fields of South Africa: Eco Wars, Species Apartheid, and Total Liberation

Rethinking Revolution: Animal Liberation, Human Liberation, and the Future of the Left

Genetic Science, Animal Exploitation, and the Challenge for Democracy

The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act : New, Improved, and ACLU Approved

Dispatches from a Police State: Animal Rights in the Crosshairs of State Repression

Clearcutting Green Activists: The FBI Escalates the War on Dissent

HSUS Crosses the Line

Animals Like Us: The Search for a Species Identity

 

Essays - Philosophy, Ecology, Social Theory

Bush's War on Terrror: The Unraveling of a Fraud

Senator James Inhofe: Top Terrorist Threat to Planet Earth

Showtrials and Scarecrows: Ecoterrorism and the War on Dissent

Ward Churchill's Sins Against the Empire

From Earth Day to Ecological Society

Contemporary Youth and the Postmodern Adventure

Biotechnology, Democracy, and the Politics of Cloning

The WTO and the New Global Realities: The Impact on Animals

The Postmodern Turn in Philosophy: Theoretical Provocations and Normative Deficits

The Apocalyptic Vision of Philip K. Dick

H.G. Wells, Biotechnology, and Genetic Engineering: A Dystopic Vision

Richard Rorty and Postmodern Theory

Debord and the Postmodern Turn: New Stages of the Spectacle

Kevin Kelly's Complexity Theory: The Politics and Ideology of Self-Organizing Systems

Robocop: The Crisis of Subjectivity

Postmodern Politics and the Battle for the Future

Rap, Black Rage, and Racial Difference

Human Identity Politics: Homo Indeterminus

The Brave New World

High Noon at Jurassic Park: Technofantasies Confront Complexity

Revisiting The Island of Dr. Moreau

Big Lies and The Biotechnology Revolution

Philosophy Under Fire: The Peter Singer Controversy

Revolutionary Peacemaking: Using a Critical Pedagogy Approach for Peacemaking with “Terrorists”

Crisis Culture and the Waning of Revolutionary Politics

Debord, Cybersituations, and the Interactive Spectacle

Defining Terrorism

Revolutionary Environmentalism: An Emerging New Struggle for Liberation

The Cultural Turn in Marxist Theory

 

Book Excerpts

Postmodern Theory

The Postmodern Turn

The Postmodern Adventure

Terrorists Or Freedom Fighters? Reflections on the Liberation of Animals

Global Capitalism and the Demise of the Left: Renewing Radicalism through Inclusive Democracy

 

Reviews of Dr. Best's Books

Healing the Earth Radio Review of Igniting A Revolution (2006)

Abolitionist Online of Igniting A Revolution (2006)

Love Is A Burning Thing - Review of Igniting A Revolution (2006)

Reviews of Terrorists or Freedom Fighters (2005)

 

Lectures

(*NEW*) Crisis and the Crossroads of History: The Need for a Radicalized Citizenry

Biotechnology, Art, and the Aesthetic Exploitation of Animals (links to a live video from UCLA)

Speech To El Paso City Council Against the Patriot Act

Compassion and Action (Speech to Animal Rights 2002 National Conference)

Animal Guardianship: Speech for National Homeless Animals Day

The Ethics Of Vegetarianism

 

Social Thought/Free Speech

Translated: Il Mito Della Liberta' Di Parola (Italian)

 

Book Reviews

(*NEW*) Gaps in Logic, Lapses in Politics: Rights and Abolitionism in Joan Dunayer's Speciesism

When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals by Jeffrey Masson and Susan McCarthy, 1995

Animal Experimentation: A Harvest of Shame by Moneim A. Fadali, M.D., 1996

Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, and Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meat Industry by Gail. E. Eisnitz, 1997

Ethics Into Action: Henry Spira and the Animal Rights Movement by Peter Singer, 1998

Veganism in a Nutshell: by Bruce Friedrich, 2002

The New Earth Reader: The Best of Terra Nova Eds. David Rothenberg and Marta Ulvaeus

Ecological Prospects: Scientific, Religious, and Aesthetic Perspectives Ed. Christopher Key Chapple, 1994

Tom Athanasiou, Divided Planet: The Ecology of Rich and Poor, 1996 Allen Hammond, Which World? Scenarios for the 21st Century: Global Destinies, Regional Choices, 1998

Peter C. Van Wyck, Primitives in the Wilderness: Deep Ecology and the Missing Human Subject, 1997 Timothy W. Luke, Ecocritique: Contesting the Politics of Nature,Economy, and Culture, 1997

Sandra Harding, Is Science Multicultural? Postcolonialism, Feminism, and Epistemologies. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1998.

David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1989

Richard Wolin, The Terms of Cultural Criticism, 1992

Charles Patterson, Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust

Norm Phelps, The Longest Struggle: Animal Advocacy from Pythagoras to PETA

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