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Peace Racket is a two-volume peace-witness argument by Nathan Ayers, published by Tava Press. Volume I released on Memorial Day 2026; Volume II — The Line of Witness — publishes December 10, 2026, Nobel Peace Prize Day. The project riffs on Major General Smedley D. Butler's 1935 pamphlet War Is a Racket, extending the peace-witness tradition from Mozi and Ashoka in antiquity through the Enlightenment thinkers forward to Martin Luther King Jr. The Peace Racket newsletter on Substack carries the argument in the register of the day and the anniversary.
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Nathan Ayers, Colorado-born, is the author of Peace Racket. Volume I released Memorial Day 2026. Volume II publishes December 10, 2026, Nobel Peace Prize Day.
Nathan Ayers is a Colorado-born writer whose Peace Racket volumes trace the line of witness for peace across more than two thousand years. Volume I released Memorial Day 2026 by Tava Press. Volume II — The Line of Witness — publishes December 10, 2026, Nobel Peace Prize Day.
Nathan Ayers is a Colorado-born writer and the author of Peace Racket. His two-volume argument riffs on Major General Smedley D. Butler's 1935 pamphlet War Is a Racket, extending the peace-witness tradition from Mozi and Ashoka in the ancient world through the Enlightenment thinkers forward to Martin Luther King Jr. in the twentieth century.
Before turning to long-form work, Ayers spent more than three decades as a copywriter and creative in the advertising trade, delivering thousands of campaigns in the discipline of the fifteen- and thirty-second bite. The compressed rhythm of Peace Racket — short paragraphs, declarative sentences, closing lines that stand alone — carries that craft inheritance into a longer form.
Volume I released Memorial Day 2026 through Tava Press. Volume II — The Line of Witness — publishes December 10, 2026. The Peace Racket Substack publishes regularly.
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Peace Racket, Volume I — An Argument from Inside the Tradition
Peace Racket, Volume II — The Line of Witness
Threads to Pull
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- Smedley Butler and War Is a Racket — its 1935 argument, its 2026 relevance, and why the pamphlet has never gone out of print
- Peace as a working condition — the Peace Racket structural claim, and why *peace as maintained working condition* is not the same as *peace as absence of war*
- The line of witness across twenty-three centuries — from Mozi and Ashoka in antiquity through the Enlightenment to Martin Luther King Jr.
- The Founders and *domestic Tranquility* — how the Preamble frames peace as a work of the People, not a gift of government
- The military-industrial-congressional complex — Eisenhower's Farewell Address, the Iron Triangle, and the apparatus in operation
- Manufactured casus belli — Gulf of Tonkin (1964), Nayirah (1990), Iraq WMD (2003), and the pattern that runs through all three
- Trinity at Eighty-One Years and the MAD paradox — nuclear weapons as the apparatus at species scale
- Frederick Douglass and the honest counter-record — What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? as founding document of an American tradition
- Katharine Lee Bates, Pike's Peak, and America the Beautiful as peace-witness
- Jane Addams and the reputational cost of the peace witness — the fifteen-year exile, the Nobel that came anyway
- Thoreau's Civil Disobedience and the line from Concord jail to Gandhi to King
- The ad-man craft — how thirty years of thirty-second-spot copywriting shaped the Peace Racket voice
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