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A tennis player can shrink the court in an opponent's mind without moving a single line. Knowing which parts of a game are real and which are artificial is most of what separates a human player from a piece on the board.
At the north end of the Bassin de la Villette in Paris stands a round stone building with a ring of columns, built in the 1780s by the architect Claude-Nicolas Ledoux. It looks like a small temple. It was a […]
On October 27 the Associated Press reported that Republicans fear Libertarian candidates could cost them the United States Senate. The party holds fifty-three seats and can lose three and keep control with Vice President JD Vance breaking ties. The AP […]
The South Rises described four states, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi, held by one coalition at every layer at once, and asked whether the checks built into their governments still worked once the arithmetic stopped requiring them to. November 3 […]
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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