Could be, but it would be intensely controversial and, even with legal backing, a flashpoint for violence. I can't imagine it going well when people of color try to exercise the right in rural parts of the US.

Here land ownership was always fee simple. People would accept the end of recreational use before they accepted communal rights. In Madison, for instance, despite being an istmus, no one swam or sailed before public parks. Accepted that there was no public access to the land on either side of them.

Could be, but I'm skeptical. My sense of English right to roam is that it hinged in large part on the fact that rural land was owned by the aristocracy, which was supposed to have certain obligations to the community. That land was previously encumbered by all sorts of communal rights.

This actually seems to be the point on which Trump is most vulnerable right now. A lot of dyed in the wool conservatives are up in arms about it, saying Republicans will never win again in the west if it goes through.

Thanks for sharing this!

The profession has, perhaps, prioritized being "in the arena" too much in recent years.

Yrah, but that was basically MLK's position on black power.

Weird that people don't recognize the parallel to nativism. Doubtless, it is in practice anti-immigration. More immigrants move to cheaper suburbs where they are likely to face prejudice. Unsurprisingly nativism is more prevalent than when immigration was concentrated in cosmopolitan envlaves.

His fortune fortune rests on inheritance and landlordism; all he knows about the market is corruption, privilege, and rent-seeking.

"We should just offer the people a New Deal." You mean like the WPA adaptation of "It Can't Happen Here?"

Nature documentarians will have to learn to love the pigeon.

Thomas Jefferson famously believed states should nullify the Enemy Alien Act. Seems he was right. Blue states should arrest any federal officials enforcing the law in their states.

Wealthy political elites using tax-payer dollars to celebrate hiking taxes on the average consumer is great optics.

Should be obvious by now that political elites need to be subject to the law, or they might exploit the leeway you give them to break the system.

I've never been able to get a Trump voter to offer a negative personal experience with immigrants. People seem to be voting fully on the basis of media hype without considering their lived experience.

When my seven year old saw a cybertruck in the wild, he asked out of nowhere: "Is that a decepticon?"