Series

Universal basic income reframed as what it actually is. Not welfare, but a dividend: the rent on your equal share of a commons that was enclosed without your consent, paid back to you as a right.

• Part 1

  Not Welfare, a Dividend

• Part 2

  The Floor and the Exit

A seven-part series on the West inside a crisis era: the fractures pulling America and Europe apart, and the choice between renewal, decline, and the strongman.

• Part 1

  Where We Are in the Cycle

• Part 2

  Reading the Climax

• Part 3

  The Transatlantic Divorce

• Part 4

  The Operating System

• Part 5

  Europe's Structural Trap

• Part 6

  America's Immigration Dilemma

• Part 7

  The Next Twenty Years

A constitution is not scripture, and ours has already been rewritten, by drift and convenience, into something far less bound than the original. This series asks what an honest second draft would say: a frame that constrains power more tightly than the one we actually live under, and restores the representation the first draft promised.

• Part 1

  Why Rewrite It

• Part 2

  The People's House

• Part 3

  The States' House

• Part 4

  Purse and Sword

The earth and its natural opportunities are a common inheritance no one made, so the unearned rent of land and resources belongs to all. Capturing it is justice, not plunder. The series starts from the foundation essay From Plunder to Justice and applies that line.

• Part 1

  Enough and As Good

• Part 2

  The Tollbooth

• Part 3

  Tax What You Didn't Make

• Part 4

  Not Only Land

• Part 5

  The Last Enclosure

A series on how the people who build an enterprise can do it without exploiting or expropriating one another: a voluntary settlement between capital and labor, chosen rather than imposed, and defended philosophically rather than offered as policy.

• Part 1

  The Third Answer

• Part 2

  What We Refuse to Count

• Part 3

  The Floor and the Share

• Part 4

  The Cap