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A walk with the family dog is two acts at once: the one the dog is having and the one the neighbors are watching. On symbolic action, and how the weight of the social sphere regulates the liberty of a person, even within family.
On high ground above tree line, trails are often marked by cairns: small stacks of stones, one in sight of next, trails leading across rock where no path wears into the ground. Nobody knows who are their builders. A hiker […]
There is a habit of treating liberty and democracy as one thing with two names. Hold elections and freedom follows; where freedom is missing, elections are the cure. The last thirty-five years have been hard on that habit. […]
On Saturday a Houthi missile hit Riyadh's international airport for the third time in a week. Saudi Arabia says at least twelve people were killed and about three hundred wounded, the deadliest attack on the kingdom in more than a […]
When competence stops being scarce, who gets to hold the capability?
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Land is a little bit everyone's, and it still doesn't have to belong to the state.
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Self-government at the scale where people actually live: the town, the neighborhood, the watershed.
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