Who owns words? If words are mine, can they be yours, too? In a sense, language has to be “ours,” a shared resource that all can use. What about ideas? Ideas are, after all,...

Who owns words? If words are mine, can they be yours, too? In a sense, language has to be “ours,” a shared resource that all can use. What about ideas? Ideas are, after all,...
A little more than a year ago I wrote a piece in this space called “All Housing is Affordable Housing.” The claim was that the essential step toward reducing the housing shortage...