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

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 by Dr. Best

• (*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