Property rights meant a lot to African Americans, especially at a time where their civil rights were being flagrantly denied. 1910 was really the high watermark of Black land ownership in America, ...

Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week's newsletter is a response to a recent essay in The Federalist that makes a conservative case against New Urbanism and its ...

Thank you, Eugene! This week, I'm blogging about a scholarly project long in the works. Earlier this summer, I published a book, Natural Property Rights, with Cambridge University Press. If readers ...

The checkerboard pattern of land ownership in the West, going back two centuries, pits private interests against public ...

The U.S. system for the transfer of real estate is unique in the world. We transfer ownership by private contract between parties; no advance government approval is required. By contrast, many ...