Most arguments about land start from the same assumption, even when they end in opposite places. If land is important enough, the government should hold it. Parks, forests, wetlands, watersheds, and lately housing, are all treated this way: once something […]
In California's housing arguments, two words get used as if they were interchangeable. A politician who wants more homes calls themselves pro-housing, and one who wants to permit more projects of every kind calls themselves the same thing. Opponents of […]
There's a piece of received wisdom so common it rarely gets argued for anymore, only assumed: private owners degrade land, chasing this quarter's yield at the expense of next century's soil, and only a government — a park service, a […]
[Freedom Pathways](/posts/freedom-pathways) closed by naming the two harder cases still ahead of it in this series: land whose entire value lies in never being developed by anyone at all, which is refuge's problem, and land whose use by one party […]
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