Posts tagged “institutions”

Abstract watercolor of six vertical layers: green, vermillion, magenta, yellow, orange and red. Each meeting differs: a set edge, shallow feathering, a scalloped print, deep tongues, and beads of red in the orange.

Interfaces

Alan Forester-Kaiser · November 1, 2026

On a rough day at Clapham, Benjamin Franklin fetched a cruet of oil and went down to the large pond on the common. He dropped a little on the water from the leeward side, where the waves were largest, and […]

#simultaneum #synergy #surface tension #josiah willard gibbs

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Comic-style drawing of a backpacker, seen from behind, at a fork in a cobbled road. Left: a marching column, cameras and walls under giant stone heads and a red storm. Right: a sunlit path with people reading, talking and working, toward a bright city.

Public Commission

Alan Forester-Kaiser · October 31, 2026

This follows a discussion at a recent meeting. In Sometown, in the Bay Area, two commission members are at odds about why they’re there. One holds that a commission exists to help the administrative government get its work done. The […]

#agenda setting #city manager #municipal commissions #institutions

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#sortition #infrastructure #committees of inspection #edmund burke #institution building #little platoons #council of censors #continental association #citizens commission #council-manager government #self-government #politics-administration dichotomy #woodrow wilson #municipalism #social liberty #brown act #minneapolis park board #parks and recreation #civic lottery

Comic-style drawing of Edmund Burke as a farmer, in a green tweed flat cap, rolled shirtsleeves, waistcoat, red neckerchief and muddy boots, with a pail and stick on very green hills, a sheepdog and a cattle dog running loose beside him.

A Day With Edmund Burke

Idan Rednaxus · October 30, 2026

In 1771 Oliver Goldsmith sent a friend a short report on a sitting member of Parliament: “Burke is a farmer – en attendant a better place, but visiting about too.” The report was accurate. That autumn the member wrote to […]

#land #institutions #le chapelier #penn

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Three award rosettes with ribbons in red, teal, and gold, each with a small check: one with an open book, one with an oak, and one with balance scales

Accreditation and Liberty

Idan Rednaxus · October 2, 2026

Every argument for freedom eventually runs into the same practical objection. If anyone can start a school, a land trust, a clinic, or a cooperative, how is anyone supposed to know which ones are any good? A parent choosing a […]

#land value tax #stewardship #social liberty #licensing

#school choice #land trusts #voluntary association #georgism #institutions #accreditation #education #assessment #trust