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Most people ask for simple. Complex is where best fruit comes from, and simple is how it reaches anyone.
In the autumn of 1818 the parish of Dedham, Massachusetts, chose a new minister. The parish was every taxpayer in town, and the taxpayers wanted Alvan Lamson, a young Harvard man of the liberal, Unitarian kind. The church was the […]
On October 16, 1834, a pair of workmen were told to get rid of two cartloads of old wooden sticks stored in the Palace of Westminster. The sticks were Exchequer tallies, notched hazel rods that had recorded payments to the […]
On almost any Saturday in the spring of 2021, an open house in Sunnyvale went something like this. The house was a three-bedroom ranch on a cul-de-sac, one of thousands put up in the late 1950s for the engineers and […]
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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