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Correcting the Half Truths, a condensed version of chapter one of On Private Property: Finding Common Ground on the Ownership of Land (Beacon Press) exploring flaws in the fundamental assumptions that guide and distort many contemporary discussions about land ownership, dated November 2007 (7900 words) |
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The Education of Ada, chapter 3 of Agrarianism and the Good Society: Land, Culture, Conflict and Hope (University Press of Kentucky) probing Charles Frazier's agrarian classic novel, Cold Mountain, as a meditation on nature and culture and the possibility of returning to land to reshape a more land-sensitive culture, dated March 2007 (9000 words) |
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Property Functions and the Right to Develop, chapter 4 of On Private Property: Finding Common Ground on the Ownership of Land (Beacon Press), considering the key social functions that property performs and the roles of communities in creating development value for vacant land while questioning whether landowners in fact need secure development rights for private property to perform its key functions, dated November 2007 (7200 words) |
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Wendell Berry and the Limits of Populism, an essay contributed to Jason Peters, ed., Wendell Berry: Life and Work (University Press of Kentucky), comparing the thought of Wendell Berry to that of other key strands of modern thought (including Marxism, Jacksonian democracy, and civic republicanism) and noting Berry's failure to promote a theory of progress to achieve the fundamental institutional changes he deems necessary, dated August 2007 (8200 words) |
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Ecology and Salvation, the text of a talk delivered
October 5, 2006, at a conference on Ecology and Religion sponsored by
the University of Illinois Program for the Study of Religion (3500 words) |
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An Open Letter to Leaders of American Environmental Organizations,
commenting on weaknesses in the movement and what might be done about them,
dated June 2006 (4700 words) |
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A letter to Courtney White supporting and critiquing his proposal for a land
health movement, dated May 2006 (4100 words) |
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Homeland Health, an article on why the environment has largely disappeared
as a national political issue, from the Summer 2005 issue of the
political journal Dissent (4200 words) |
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The Culture of Owning, an article on American ideas about private property
and how we might improve them, from the March-April 2005 issue of Orion (4800 words) |
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Goodbye to the Public-Private Divide, an article (based on a talk) on why
we are ill served by the misleading distinction between public property
and private property, from the Winter 2006 issue of Environmental Law,
published by the Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, OR (9000 words) |
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What Is Land? A Broad Look at Private Rights and Public Power, an article
offering a wide-ranging inquiry into private property, how it works, why it exists,
and why its change over time is appropriate, from the June 2006 issue of Planning
& Environmental Law and based on a talk given at the 2006 annual conference
of the American Planning Association (6800 words) |
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Conservation Biology and the Law, a brief commentary on why the law largely
ignores conservation biology and how biologists might increase its influence,
from the June 2006 twentieth-anniversary issue of Conservation Biology (1700 words) |
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The American Legal Scholar, the text of a talk to the Board of Visitors of the
University of Illinois College of Law, Champaign, Illinois, April 21, 2006 (3300 words) |
