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I think it is so vital right now that we embrace the utopianism that was present in the 1940s and 1950s with land redistribution and use it as a way to guide us in this moment when we have a lot of grassroots voices saying we are in trouble. There is a gun to our head, and yet we seem to be in a moment of paralysis, institutional paralyzes where little seems to shift.

The Best of 2023 continues with historian Jo Guldi on her Boston Review article, "The Earth for Man," on land redistribution which is adapted from her Yale University Press book, The Long Land War: The Global Struggle for Occupancy Rights. Following the interview, we read the rest of your answers to the Question from Hell and select our favorite of the week and Sebastian Wuepper delivers another timely Past Inside the Present.

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Guest

Jo Guldi

@joguldi

Jo Guldi is Professor of Quantitative Methods at Emory. She is a data scientist, writer, historian. Her newest books are The Long Land War (2022) from Yale University Press and the forthcoming The Dangerous Art of Text Mining: A Methodology for Digital History (2023), available for pre-order now.

https://www.joguldi.com/

Best of 2023: The Long Land War / Jo Guldi

Jo Guldi

The Long Land War / Jo Guldi