SPEECH CRIME PUNISHED IN BARNSTABLE, MASSACHUSETTS
Director Lucy Loomis of publicly-funded Sturgis Library permanently trespassed the editor without warning or due process for written criticism exposing the hypocritical policy that "libraries should challenge censorship" and "provide materials and information presenting all points of view.” Loomis permanently banned the editor's ideas. The ACLUM, PEN New England, Office of Intellectual Freedom (American Library Association), and all other freedom groups contacted refuse to challenge this enemy of FREEDOM OF SPEECH. The Barnstable Patriot and Cape Cod Times refuse to even cover the story. Russell Streur, however, has been pursuing the matter (see Camel Saloon).
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The American Dissident, a biannual 501 c3 nonprofit publication founded in 1998, seeks risky, "rude truth" submissions, preferably stemming from the questioning and challenging of power, preferably local.
Updated 05/06/13. Issue #25 distributed.
Focus
The American Dissident seeks to publish truth—left or right—and especially opposes political correctness and its facile knee-jerk dismissal of any valid criticism as racist, islamophobic, sexist, homophobic, right-wing extremist, conspiracy theory, etc. Read more...
Notes on Risk and Rude Truth
Few poets and writers dare risk anything at all—not career, not publication or invitation opportunities, and not collegial connections. Few dare speak the rude truth because most are driven by hopes of "success," fame, and writer's immortality.
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Recent AD Blog Posts
Check out the blogs on Anita Walker (MCC), Gibor Basri (UCal), John Sexton (NYU), Keli Goff, Joan Houlihan (Concord Poetry Center), Hanna Pylvanien, Mark Gonzales, Becky Tuch, Lucy Loomis, Jon E. Travis, Mary Jo Bang, Betsy Newell, Stephen Burt, etc.
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Testing the Waters of Democracy
Censorship and general disdain for vigorous debate seem to be increasing deplorably in America today. Dismissing criticism and critics with denigrating epithet has become common practice. Rare is the person who will examine the facts and logic presented. Read more...
Democracy in Peril—PC Ideology
Unsurprisingly, The American Dissident has been dismissed as sexist and racist by PC ideologues. Read more...
Democracy in Peril—Islamization
In the New York Times, Washington Post, Time magazine, and other PC publications, the increasing foothold of Islam (Sharia law) in Europe, Canada, and even America is rarely if ever reported. Read more...
Démocratie en péril... au Québec
Cette partie du site contient, entre autres, les notes critiques du rédac'chef sur le Festival International de la Poésie de Trois-Rivières. Lire encore...
Unusually Critical Essays
The essays in this section help illustrate the raison d'être of
The American Dissident. Each was written by a known author (Orwell, Emerson, Camus, Goytisolo, etc.). The editor culled them from extensive readings over the decades. Such essays are rare.
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Unusually Critical Poems
The poems in this section help illustrate like the essays above the raison d'être of
The American Dissident. Each was written by a known author (Villon, Byron, Jeffers, Saro-Wiwa, Bukowski, Mandelstam, etc.). The editor culled them from extensive readings over the decades. Poems of a critical nature are very rare. The idea of a critical poem almost seems taboo.
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Sixties Sellouts
During the Sixties, we'd call those who subverted their principles for money and power SELLOUTS. Unfortunately, the term became conveniently outmoded as the sellout phenomenon generalized over the years. Read more...
Contributors to The AD
Without the generous support of contributors, The American Dissident would not be alive and kicking today. Examine some of the essays, poems, and reviews published in The American Dissident. Read more...
Caustic Cartoons by P. Maudit
P. Maudit cartoons are featured on The American Dissident blog and elsewhere on this website. Read more...
Student Comments
One of the most positive things regarding The American Dissident has been Professor Dan Sklar's invitations over the past several years. Sklar is a rare bird in the academic nest. Read more...
Reviews of The American Dissident
The editor has had to pound on doors to get The American Dissident reviewed. Library Journal and American Libraries Magazine (American Library Association) both, for example, simply refuse to review it. Read more...
The Editor Interviewed
The editor has had to pound on doors to get interviewed. Read more...
The Editor Criticized
Established-order proponents and apparatchiks, as well as most others, when criticized by the editor have dismissed The American Dissident almost always with ad hominem. Read more...
Literary Letters from Issue #23
Each issue of The American Dissident contains an ample selection of letters questioning and challenging free-speech scorning academics, literati, editors, cultural council apparatchiks, librarians, etc. Read more...
Parrhesiastic Writing
"The Cold Passion for Truth Hunts in No Pack" is a lengthy essay written by the editor on democracy and literature and the case for parrhesiastic poetry, writing, and art. Read more...
Caustically Critical Reviews
The editor is not an aficionado of backslapping and self-congratulating, pervasive, to say the least, in the literary milieu, both high and low brow. Only a fool, "brilliant" or whatever, would run out to buy a book or literary journal because someone "brilliant" or whatever endorsed it with the usual suspect vocabulary "brilliant," "cutting edge," "great," "original" "one of the world's most significant," "one of the best," "stunningly beautiful," "innovative," etc., etc. Read more...
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