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Chicago Beach Boys

Jesse Walker | 8.10.2004 11:45 AM


Tom Bell, the surfing professor, observes the emergence of property rights in waves. I realize that sounds a bit like the scene in Beach Party where the anthropologist teaches himself to surf by drawing calculations in the sand. And maybe it is. But the man is onto something.

[Via The Agitator.]

Books Editor Jesse Walker is the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.