Who owns America?
Plus, utopian ideas for a fairer future
In Leo Tolstoy’s short story “How Much Land Does a Man Need?” a peasant named Pahom journeys to a lush, unsettled grassland where the Bashkirs, a pastoral tribe, offer him all the land he can walk in a day. The rules are simple. Pahom must start at sunrise, trace his boundary by foot, and return before nightfall. It’s a parable about greed, and it doesn…
