The Connection

The Connection (TC) is (or was?) a political/philosophical amateur press association (APA). Each issue consisted of photocopies of pages sent in by members/subscribers. Most of the submissions consist largely of replies to earlier submissions; people also submit articles and reviews, and sometimes short stories, poetry, art, and advertisements. The most typical subjects were political philosophy and strategy, religion and moral philosophy, conventional vs. 'alternative' science and medicine, and history. There were about 30 members as of early 2002.

Below are links to my articles and comments printed in various numbers of TC. Note that these essays represent my views at the time (2002-2004 or so), and in some cases I would now disgree with my past self, or express myself differently.

I'm no longer a member, and haven't been for some years. If the zine still exists, you can find out by writing to:

Erwin S. Strauss
10 Hill Street, #22-L
Newark, NJ 07102

• Contents pages of TC#150-256 (one huge ASCII file, 864K)
• Reviews of The City in History by Lewis Mumford and The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jabobs, published in TC#254
• My comments in TC#256 on city planning, housing and education subsidies, banking and credit, and some other topics
• My comments in TC#257 on subsidized housing, calendar reform, the Supreme Court, and other topics
• My comments in TC #258 on wage slavery, marriage, the reasons for basic moral rules, calendar reform, and Vernor Vinge's writings
• An autobiographical article which appeared in TC #259
• Apologetic arguments on God's existence; answering a charge of political inconsistency (TC #260)
• On causation, and minimizing the number of assumptions (TC #261)
• More comments on causation, what the consistent patterns in the world mean, Hilaire Belloc, helping the poor, "once an atheist, always an atheist"

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Last revised October 2009.