Subscriber chat, and next month’s roundtable with Pedestrian Space Readers who’ve downloaded the Substack app might have noticed the new chat feature. Since I don’t have any other social media accounts (I almost went back… Read more

A review of Simon Winchester’s book “Land” The following is, as promised, a review of Simon Winchester’s most recent book Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World. I haven’t published a review… Read more

Walking composition “Soul, self; come, poor Jackself, I do advise You, jaded, let be; call off thoughts awhile Elsewhere; leave comfort root-room” —from “My own heart let me more have pity on,” Gerard Manley Hopkins… Read more

Threadable-adjacent reading discussion on land ownership Last week’s Threadable reading* was a selection from Simon Winchester’s book Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World: pages 101-121 (Part II: Chapters 1 and 2).… Read more

Walking composition “It doesn’t make you a hero just because everybody else didn’t do their job.” —A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking, T. Kingfisher Hunting season has started in Montana (rifle season, that is; archery… Read more

Threadable-adjacent reading discussion on land ownership Last week’s Threadable reading* consisted of two documents: The original Charter of the Forest, a companion document to the Magna Carta, signed in 1217 by the regent for King… Read more

Threadable-adjacent reading discussion on land ownership Last week’s Threadable reading* was a selection from law professor Erik T. Freyfogle’s book The Land We Share: Private Property and the Common Good: pages 16 (starting after the… Read more

Walking composition “But to me the exile’s always wretched, Like a convict, or a patient. Wanderer your road is dark, And the bread of strangers tastes bitter.” —from “I’m not one of those who left… Read more

Threadable-adjacent reading discussion on land ownership This post is for anyone interested in reading about and/or discussing land ownership in parallel with the reading circle I’m leading on Threadable. If you can access Threadable and… Read more

All our lives are the commons There are a lot of new subscribers here at On the Commons, thanks, I think, to Mike Sowden’s overly generous interview with me on Everything Is Amazing. (I’m looking… Read more