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Robert Taber's 1965 study of guerrilla warfare, an account of each of its eleven chapters. An army has everything to defend, and the guerrilla has only to survive.
A New England town meeting runs off a warrant, the list of articles the selectmen post weeks ahead, and every voter in town gets a say on each one. Massachusetts voters will see something close to a statewide warrant on […]
In 1643 Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Haven formed the United Colonies of New England. Each colony sent two commissioners, and any decision needed six of the eight votes. The confederation handled what no single colony could, chiefly defense […]
Around 1300 an English poet put Richard the Lionheart on crusade in rhyming couplets. In Richard Coer de Lyon the king’s army raises a siege tower, and the poem says of it: “A tour ful strong, That queyntyly engynours made.” […]
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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