Kirkpatrick Sale

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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.

Recent Essays

The Answer is Division

Kirkpatrick Sale - June 15, 2023

There's no place that division would not make things better. I don't say utopian, just better.

Buddhist Economics: The Eight-Fold Path

Kirkpatrick Sale - July 24, 2009

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,...

Let’s Get Rid of the Economy of Growth

Kirkpatrick Sale - June 25, 2009

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...

The Importance of Growing Up Village

Kirkpatrick Sale - May 29, 2009

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...

Taking Secession Seriously–At Last

Kirkpatrick Sale - April 29, 2009

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...