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Engine once meant wit, an engineer was anyone who used it, and ingenuous and ingenious were two faces of a single birth. Words shrink to fit the institutions that use them. Some are worth taking back for the people.
Schisms Within ended on a question: whether a primary-season fracture costs a coalition the general election, or whether November simply reassembles what August split apart. The Great Lakes states, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio, vote on November 3, and […]
On the night of 27 March 1943 a group of men in borrowed police uniforms talked their way into the Amsterdam population registry on the Plantage Kerklaan, a former concert hall across from the zoo. They overpowered the guards, moved […]
Sometime in the late 1860s, at Eastwood on the edge of Sydney, Maria Ann Smith threw the cores of some French crab apples onto a heap near the creek at the bottom of her farm. Apples don't grow true from […]
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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