The living library
Articles
Every idea in this project, broken into pieces you can read in a few minutes each. Start anywhere — nothing here requires you to have read something else first.
- LandHistory5 min
What Was Taken, and Exactly How
Understanding loss precisely is not bitterness. It is the only way to know what can still be reclaimed.
- LandHistory5 min
The Argument That Never Really Ended
More conflicts trace back to land than to almost anything else. To understand why, you have to see what was actually done to it.
- LandRights5 min
What the Law Says About Land Today
After decades of dispossession, real legal tools now exist to begin addressing it. Imperfect tools are still tools.
- The Living LawLand5 min
You Cannot Own Land the Way You Own a Chair
Before land became something to be bought and sold, it was something you belonged to — not the reverse.
- Economy & ResourcesLand4 min
What a Community Owns Together
The same asset-before-liability logic that applies to a household applies to a whole community — and it's just as easy to get backwards.