Welcome to the Exchange Coffee House!

by Roland Hulme

The Boston Exchange Coffee House, inspiration for this website

Welcome to The Exchange Coffee House!

For several years now, I've been blogging on my own website, Militant Ginger, about news, politics and other topics. Just recently, I've begun to realize two important things:

• I never intended my blog to be strictly political, so it's never quite fit that niche satisfactorily
• I like the hubbub of other people's opinions, so would like to create a place for more of that to take place

That's why I created this site.

My intention is to publish not just my political ramblings here, but those of other like-minded thinkers. I want to create the 21st century, online equivalent of the bustling 18th century coffee houses that used to be the driving force behind the dissemination of news, political opinion and financial buzz in the days in which newspapers were still expensive.

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I was inspired to take the name The Exchange Coffee House after reading Jane Kamensk's amazing history book The Exchange Artist, which recounted the building and burning of perhaps the most legendary example of this forum ever built - the Boston Exchange Coffee House.

Hopefully this one will fare better!

I would love to consider any and all publications to appear here. Currently, blog posts are not compensated (although that might change in the future) and must conform to some fairly loose editorial standards (which I'll explain later.)

If you want to join in, just email me at editor@exchangecoffeehouse.com.

Thanks so much for stopping by - and I hope to see you again soon!

Regards,

Roland Hulme