John Nichols Beffel at the Dill Pickle Club


1845-1945, Trevor Blake

John Nichols Beffel (1887 – 1973) was a journalist with sympathies to outsiders and anarchists. Among his many credits are pieces in the American Mercury, the Chicago Daily News, the Detroit Free Press, New Trends, the New York World, and the New York Herald Tribune among others. And, apparently, Cartoons Magazine for December 1911 (Volume […]

September 13, 2017

References and Allusions to Max Stirner


Max Stirner

References and quotations from Stirner appear in odd places. Collected below are a few of those references. Originally gathered by Dan Davis for the Egoist Archive. ** New additions from The Independent Ego @worthy248 The Failure of Christianity by Emma Goldman The Rebel by Camus Human Action by Ludwig Von Mises How I Found Freedom […]

July 30, 2017

The case of the missing “h” and the Orthographische Konferenz von 1901


1845-1945, Bibliographic, Historical Work, Max Stirner

What does the “Orthographische Konferenz von 1901” have to do with Egoism? First, let wikipedia tell you what it was: At the Orthographic Conference of 1901 in Berlin (also known as the Second Orthographic Conference ), a common German orthography of all the German – speaking countries was established, which was largely based on Prussian orthography, […]

June 7, 2017