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Essays
Long-form writing on power, institutions, freedom and responsibility. Who Owns Tomorrow? is the foundational companion essay to the book. The continuing essay series begins with the 1812 essay through Tolstoy and War and Peace.
Foundational essay + continuing series
Foundational essay
Who Owns Tomorrow?
Capitalism, Feudalism, and the Multiplied Master
The direct long-form companion to Pocket Guide to Capita(feuda)lism. It develops the book’s central question through authority, ownership, work, risk and claims on another person’s future.
Emil Venn · July 2026 · English
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Essay series · No. 01
Who Owns Tomorrow in 1812?
Leo Tolstoy and War and Peace as a prism of power, freedom and responsibility
The first essay in the continuing series compares ordinary lives and institutions across the Russian Empire, Europe, North America and New Spain in 1812.
Emil Venn · August 2026 · English
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