We begin this article with the observation that what is said below invalidates everything else that was said in Article 1. The previous essay in this series took chapter 50 of the *Tao Te Ching* mostly at face value — […]
Before the parties, before the manifestos, before anyone was arrested for it, most modern revolutionary movements began the same way: a handful of people meeting to read something together. Russians called the form the *kruzhok* — literally "little circle" — […]
Take the abstraction out of the last two essays and put it somewhere concrete: a public park, on an ordinary afternoon. Not a private club and not somebody's back lawn — the public good, in its landed form, on behalf […]
Chapter 50 of the *Tao Te Ching* opens with an accounting that sounds almost bureaucratic for a book so given to paradox: […]
Henry George's proposal was simple enough to fit on a bumper sticker: tax the value of land itself, not what people build on it, because land's value comes mostly from the surrounding community — roads, schools, transit, the sheer fact […]
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