Posts tagged “strategy”

Two tennis players face off on a floodlit court. A cone of shots runs straight from the left player's racket across the net and passes through the opponent at the waist. A thought bubble above the left player holds the same scene in miniature.

Dichotomy and Containment

Margaret Johannsen · October 29, 2026

Six rallies in a row, the ball goes crosscourt to the backhand corner. Nothing about it is dramatic. It lands deep, a few feet inside the sideline, with enough height to push the opponent back and not enough pace to […]

#else frenkel-brunswik #blackstone #persona ficta #special purpose depository institution

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On black, a dark stone block breaks into twelve numbered pieces drifting outward in order, I, II and XII furthest and glowing warmest, V and IX barely cracked; each freed piece reaches by lit lines to a web of points.

Ordering the Separations

Social Liberty Foundation · October 17, 2026

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 […]

#strategy #property #isaac backus #disestablishment

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#james madison #virginia #liberty #tactics #civil asset forfeiture #education #bill of separations #technology #massachusetts #connecticut #movement building

Three figures seen from behind at dusk walk a path narrowing to a glowing point: a tall, thin one in an orange scarf, an average one of no particular gender, and a broad-shouldered athlete in a ball cap, half off the path

Narrow Edge -- A Trialogue

Social Liberty Foundation · September 29, 2026

Three voices. SL speaks for the Social Liberty Foundation. Claude is the AI model that helped draft this piece, given its own lines. 3rd Party is a composite of the country's existing outside parties, fifty years of running […]

#land value tax #drugs #strategy #constitution

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#social liberty #factions #history #financial privacy #third parties #personal sovereignty #georgism #trialogue #organizing #taxation #movement building #coalitions #prostitution #privacy

A tightening orange spiral labeled with a positive feedback loop example -- number of cattle running reinforcing overall level of panic, each marked with a plus sign

Runaway Process

Margaret Johannsen · September 12, 2026

Why did a healthy oak, older than the town that killed it, actually have to die? Not the proximate answer — a hazard report, a rejected second opinion, a […]

#strategy #land #ecology #politics

#risk #philosophy #government bloat #safety

A Nolan chart-style political quadrant diagram, warped and distorted rather than drawn as clean straight axes

A Third View of the State

Ben Johannsen · August 31, 2026

Political philosophy usually hands you two options for what the state actually is, and asks you to pick a side. The liberal tradition, running from Locke through the American founding to most modern minarchists, treats the state as a neutral […]

#strategy #psychology #politics #georgism

#philosophy #organizing #government

Growing a Movement as a Design Problem

Alan Forester-Kaiser · August 17, 2026

Ask someone how a political movement grows and they'll usually answer in terms of message, money, or charisma — the right slogan, enough donors, a leader people will follow. Those things matter, but they're not what actually determines whether a […]

#strategy #organizing #federalism #movement building