Writings and rehearsals by Nathan Schneider

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  • Anarchy Everywhere, Except Online

    I suppose this is what you get when you publish a book with “anarchy” in the title. This month I’ve got two new anarchy-related essays, both of which are available in good-old print. Here’s a bit of a taste. One is an introduction to a new collection of Noam Chomsky’s writings on Anarchism, straightforwardly titled…

  • A Holiday from Politics?

    I’m a little perplexed by the new review of Thank You, Anarchy by Adam Kirsch, an editor of The New Republic among other things. Short of outright disapproving of my book, he replays a common liberal dismissal of Occupy. “For the vast majority of Americans, it was little more than a news story,” he begins,…

  • 30% Off Thank You, Anarchy—Plus Events!

    “Schneider does a remarkable job of conveying the euphoric sense of possibility that transformed so many people in the square, as well as the frustrations”—Nick Pinto, Al Jazeera America “I consider this book one of the lasting benefits of Occupy”—David Swanson, WarIsACrime.org “[A] fast-moving cinematic chronicle”—Jonah Raskin, Occupy.com “Part history, part on-the-scene reporting, and part…

  • The Official Guide to Thank You, Anarchy

    Maybe you saw a scene from it on HBO’s The Newsroom. Or perhaps you annotated part of it on RapGenius. Some of you may have even glimpsed the foreword by Rebecca Solnit, in which she wrote: Thanks to this meticulous and elegant book, we know what one witness-participant was thinking all through the first year…

  • God in Proof: The Official Update

    You can be among the first to see this new animated book trailer! Share it with your friends on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. Join a live interactive book event this Wednesday In conversation with Texas-based philosophical artist Alyce Santoro, I’ll be discussing God in Proof in an online event on Wednesday at 9 p.m. eastern…

  • The New Theist

    For longer than I’d like to admit, I’ve been following the evangelical philosopher William Lane Craig around the country — to Atlanta, Chicago, Indiana, Los Angeles, and Atlanta again. I found out about him while working on my book, God in Proof, and couldn’t seem to get enough. Today, my profile of Craig appears as…

  • The Official Guide to God in Proof

    After ten years in the making, five years in the writing, and a few days doing little drawings, my first book, God in Proof: The Story of a Search from the Ancients to the Internet, is now becoming available. This is a guide on how you can get it for yourself and—please, please please!—help spread…

  • God in Proof: An Evening of Song and Abstraction

    To celebrate the release of my book God in Proof: The Story of a Search from the Ancients to the Internet, I’ll be joined by my friends in the medieval music ensemble Resonanda at the magnificent Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph in Brooklyn, New York. Readings from the book will intermingle with selections of medieval song,…

  • The Scandal of White Complicity

    In the national Catholic magazine America I’ve just published a short review of an important new book with a long title: The Scandal of White Complicity in U.S. Hyper-Incarceration: A White Spirituality of Resistance. It’s an effort by three Catholic thinkers to articulate the depth of white complicity in this country’s massive, highly racialized prison…

  • What Do You Believe? How Do You Know? Want a Free Book?

    For as long as I’ve been interested in the search for proofs about the existence of God, I’ve been interested in drawing them. Words and equations just didn’t seem like enough; to wrap my head around what these constructs were expressing, and to try to communicate them to others, I had to make pictures. As…