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Trespassing

Antonia Malchik

Trespassing is a podcast version of the newsletter On the Commons, about ownership, private property, and what we lose in the privatization of the commons antonia.substack.com

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23:06

Everlasting mythologies: Anglo-Saxon identity

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2025/11/03

The following is a revised version of an essay originally published in January 2022.Many years ago, late into Barack Obama’s presidential administration, maybe in 2015 or even early 2016, I had a long messaging conversation with an acquaintance about some of the right-wing movements and talking points that had become prevalent over the previous few years, specifically the fear-mongering over “they’re going to take our guns.” “They” being liberal people or, more specifically, Democrats. Guns being in

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8:09

On greed: how much is enough?

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2025/10/30

If you’re new here, welcome to On the Commons!Some places to roam:* How, and and why, does anyone own the earth?* The limitations of meditation and lure of silence.* Walkability when a problem is systemic, or: you can’t solve for traffic.✔️ Join over 7,000 On the Commons readers. Upgrade here.A few days ago, I was sitting by this river, near a U.S. Forest Service cabin where I went recently for a sorely needed offline, off-grid, off-network recalibration. It’s been too long since I sat in the woods

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13:49

Hope is the heartwood

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2025/08/25

If you’re new here, welcome to On the Commons!Here, we explore questions as varied as:* The disastrous and ongoing legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery, the epitome of ownership’s claim “I took it; now it’s mine” in the form of “I saw it; now it’s mine.”* Is it possible to consume without exploitation?* What is wrong with Russia?✔️ Join over 7,000 On the Commons readers. Upgrade here.Watch Duty, a non-profit providing real-time information in wildfire country—information we previously got from the

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28:46

Oligarchy: the power of wealth

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2025/07/12

If you’re new here, welcome to On the Commons!Here, we explore questions as varied as:* The disastrous and ongoing legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery.* Is it possible to consume without exploitation?* What Is Wrong With Russia?✔️ Join over 7,000 On the Commons readers. Upgrade here.Watch Duty, a non-profit providing crucial real-time information in wildfire country—information we previously got from the U.S. government’s now-eviscerated EPA through InciWeb—will receive 5% of On the Commons paid

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14:06

Repair

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2025/06/01

To new subscribers—welcome to On the Commons! To those of you who’ve been around a while, welcome back! Today’s post comes to you amidst birdsong.I recently wrote an essay for Psyche/Aeon’s “one thing that changed me” series that’s probably the most personal thing I’ve ever published. If you came here from that essay, I’m very glad to see you here. This newsletter is generally not the space for that kind of personal essay, but I hope you’ll give it a try and explore what it means to be part of a

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24:10

Art harder

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2025/05/17

If you’re new here, welcome to On the Commons.Here, we explore questions as varied as: * The disastrous and ongoing legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery.* Is it possible to consume without exploitation?* What Is Wrong With Russia?✔️ Join a community of 6,900+ On the Commons readers. Upgrade here.Messengers for Health, founded “to improve the health of Apsáalooke (Crow Indian) men, women, and children using solutions that respect and honor Apsáalooke strengths, culture, stories, and language,” will

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21:46

Border control

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2025/04/24

If you’re new here, welcome to On the Commons!Here, we explore questions as varied as: Why are three little-known 15th-century papal bulls still being weaponized against Indigenous sovereignty today? How is the right to forage for food related to the Magna Carta, freedom, and public lands? Or for something different: What Is Wrong With Russia?✔️ Join a community of 6,800+ On the Commons readers. Upgrade here.Messengers for Health, founded “to improve the health of Apsáalooke (Crow Indian) men,

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22:05

Wealth knows best

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2025/04/06

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22:57

There were wolves in the woods

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2025/03/16

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15:46

History is won

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2025/03/04

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23:41

The time that is given to us

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2025/02/13

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23:09

Trespassing, or air that feels like home

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2025/01/11

An audio version of the essay "Trespassing" published in the anthology Elementals, from the Center for Humans & Nature, read by the author Get full access to On the Commons at antonia.substack.com/subscribe

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10:10

Writing is a commons of ideas

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2023/02/11

I finished my master’s degree in creative writing a couple of decades ago, when I was in my late twenties. With a few exceptions it was an off-putting experience: the program felt designed to promote competitive jealousy and a slash-and-burn attitude toward others’ work. I’m not sure why I stuck with it except that it was a ten-minute walk from my Boston apartment and at that age I still believed it was a necessary step toward becoming a writer (and that “becoming a writer” was itself necessary,

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1:23

Give and Take

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2022/07/26

Just over a minute of birdsong at American Prairie (which recently changed its name from the American Prairie Reserve), including the western meadowlark, one of the loveliest birds I ever hear. This audio pairs with the photo below—the slight rumble of thunder toward the end of the recording comes from the early-morning thunderstorm almost overhead. “She was no longer seeking the truth, her journey had become a desperate hunt for a turning point.” —Eyes of the Rigel, Roy JacobsenThis morning, after

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0:44

Target and Crows

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2022/07/15

I’m experimenting with the audio feature that Substack now offers. It’s called “podcast” but I’m not going to do a podcast. This is a 43-second recording of dawn birdsong from our recent camping trip—usually it’s surround-sound Swainson’s thrush spiraling trills but I only heard one of those. I’ll try to do similar nature recordings now and then, and maybe record some of an in-town walk here and there, nothing more than a few minutes. Also, possibly, short conversations. Maybe.Also: A few people

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19:28

A culture of domination

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2021/11/09

In the third book of C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia series, Voyage of the Dawn Treader, there’s a scene that has stuck with me as a good lesson for many times and circumstances, but especially those that require adaptability when facing great change.In the book, Eustace, a self-entitled and unpleasant cousin of two of the main characters, has been pulled into Narnia along with them, tumbling from our world onto Prince Caspian’s ship Dawn Treader. He is having a miserable time. One day, as the

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23:53

You can't solve for traffic

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2021/09/24

Several people have sent me notices of the Wall Street Journal Facebook investigation regarding harmful content, harm to teens from Instagram, and many other issues. (I’m not putting in a link because it’s paywalled, but here is a summary from the Los Angeles Times.) In return, I recommend an episode of Your Undivided Attention on the subject, with Tristan Harris and Daniel Schmachtenberger. What do we do, the host asked Schmachtenberger, with technology that has such enormous influence over our

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6:57

Buying America

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2021/09/19

My younger sister and I made a deal once a long time ago—I was maybe 13 or 14 or 15; over 30 years ago anyway—just before or after we’d moved to a new town. I think it was one of our very brief stints in California, or after we’d returned from the Soviet Union. The deal was: we wouldn’t talk to anyone about our previous life, schools, or friends. We’d moved a few times by then and had learned that most people just weren’t that interested in us, in other people. We’d also learned how painful their

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22:15

People / on the prairie

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2021/09/08

A couple weekends ago my family went to a cabin at American Prairie Reserve. APR is a private initiative that started as a World Wildlife Fund partnership in the early 2000s with the aim of purchasing private land in eastern Montana, land that would eventually link federal wildlife refuges and other open space to eventually preserve three million acres of connected prairie, part privately owned, part public.The initiative is described as a public-private partnership but I’m not sure it’s exactly

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5:18

How much space does your self need?

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2021/06/08

I can’t remember before seeing such a quantity of Very Large Trucks (and also Jeeps) as I’ve seen over the past month in my area. They are . . . Very Large. I know this is a recent design change to make trucks look more intimidating, and I’ve been a bit angry, I guess, at seeing such large numbers of them on the road, wondering if they’re driven by people who moved to Montana recently looking for a mythical place where “government” will leave them alone. It feels telling but also completely

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