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The Moral Economy of the Shire
Who paid for this? There’s a certain meme that I see making the rounds on Facebook every so often about the bucolic nature of life in the Shire, from Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord o…
This post is going to be shorter and less-organized than usual, I’m afraid; I’m writing the morning after the 2026 midterm elections, before the dust has a chance to settle, because I want to try and capture some of my immediate reactions. For my readers who weren’t paying attention, Democrats just had an absolute…
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Who paid for this? There’s a certain meme that I see making the rounds on Facebook every so often about the bucolic nature of life in the Shire, from Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord o…