King of the Soapboxers The dingy dean of soapboxers, celebrated in Hyde Park, Union Square and Columbia Circle, one Fred M. Wilkes, died in Bellevue hospital a few days ago. He was 77 years old, and from prattling juvenility almost to the last breath he spent his life in preparation for and the practice of […]
INCIDENTS OF THE RAID DISAPPOINTED SUFFRAGISTS ONLY ONE OF THEM ADMITTED TO THE HOUSE TWELVE ARRESTS In accordance with the statement contained in Miss Pankhurst’s letter to the Prime Minister on Monday, the members of the Women’s Social and Political Union assembled in large numbers at Caxton Hall yesterday afternoon for the purpose of appointing […]
Just north of Towertown, on the outskirts of the elegant Gold Coast, was the famous Dill Pickle Club, establish to provide a theater in which poets could recite their verses. [Founder Jack] Jones often found it necessary, however, to tailor the presentation for the audience that was present, and typical nightclub entertainment was not uncommon. […]
A Criticism of the Philosophy of Egoism by Henry Meulen To the Editor of The Egoist. Madam, The sudden change in the title of your journal fills me with misgivings: I was not aware that the Stirnerian Egoism had taken so strong a hold upon you, and I hasten to beg you to permit me […]
We are not an advice-bureau and give no recipes for conduct, though we do not deny ourselves the pleasure of expressing opinions upon other people’s conduct or even of saying what we would have done, or would do, in a given case. On the other hand, if anyone can cull useful advice from these pages […]
Notwithstanding some very excellent arguments in your two articles on Nature’s decrees concerning industry and militarism, I hardly think question is finally settled. It is not us to put on our seven-league boots and go on a tour of inspection among European nations during the past 2000 years. If we wished to determine the […]
The Nietzsche Movement in England: A Retrospect, A Confession, and a Prospect by Oscar Levy 24 pages, saddle-stitched, self-cover Stand Alone SA1095 Available at Underworld Amusements “Let unholy hands keep aloof from inspired writings, let the laity believe in their old religions and their new philosophies, and let Nietzsche be the philosopher for those only who […]
“I, AN INDIVIDUAL, AN EGO –” “I, an individual, an Ego, alone for all time, I want to vote.” So runs the basic form of argumentation recommended to deep- thinking suffragists in a recent letter from their national headquarters. It reveals at once the extreme individualism with which anti-suffragists have often charged the movement. It […]
The beginning of the New Year will serve as a sufficient apology f0r stating afresh the ambitions of this journal and detailing what one considers to be its unique a n d supremely important task: one for the execution of which we can see no evidence of minds other than our own being forthcoming. There […]
“I sing only the Ego and the individual. So does in secret each man and woman and child who breathes, but is afraid to sing it aloud.”—Mary MacLane We are very pleased to announce a friend of the Union of Egoists project has launched his own dedicated website for documenting the life and work of […]
