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Michael Hasty wrote a column for 7 years at the Hampshire Review, West Virginia's oldest newspaper, named "best column" in 2000 by the WV Press Association. His writings have appeared at hundreds of websites, including Online Journal, Common Dreams, Buzzflash, Tikkun and the Charleston Gazette. He currently blogs at Free Radical Maine.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 22, 2016 Toward revolution
What's next for the Bern insurgency? An analysis of the political moment.
(6 comments) SHARE Sunday, April 10, 2016 Overturning inverted totalitarianism
The ultimate goal of the Bernie Sanders insurgency is the overthrow of the US system of "inverted totalitarianism."
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, February 20, 2011 Out of many, One
A Joycean allegory reflecting on the history of humanity and religion, centering on a visit to a local Tea Party meeting, and narrated by a progressive missionary to the conservative heathens in the hills of West Virginia.
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, February 8, 2011 Mental spirituality
The latest dispatch from the Hampshire Independent, a progressive frontier outpost broadcasting to the local fundamentalist savages, in the blood-red hills of Bible-belt West Virginia.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 12, 2011 A House Divided
A personal encounter a few months ago with an old farmer who thought liberals "should be shot between the eyes" prompts reflections on the shootings in Arizona.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 17, 2009 Constitution 2.0
An adaptation of a longer essay at my blog, Radical Pantheist, this article makes the argument that the people of the United States need a new Constitution.