Antonia Malchik
antoniamalchik.bsky.social
Antonia Malchik
@antoniamalchik.bsky.social
Essays: Aeon, Atlantic, High Country News, Los Angeles Times, Orion, etc.
Book: A Walking Life
On the Commons: newsletter on private property & thefts of the commons, antonia.substack.com
All writing and bio: antoniamalchik.com
“Be kind.” — Jan Morris
“Men do not actually search history to avoid the mistakes of the past. They seek convenient analogies to show the dangers in failing to adopt the creed which they advocate.”

—Thurmon W. Arnold, The Folklore of Capitalism, 1937
November 20, 2025 at 5:52 PM
"Debt is a claim of ownership by the wealthy of the productive capacity of other people."
--Ben G. Price, "How Wealth Rules the World"
October 11, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Horned lark, just south of Malta, Montana
September 13, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Sunset over the prairie, eastern Montana
September 6, 2025 at 2:17 PM
“Capital transforms what is alive into resources that can be sold, and as a result, profound human needs for connection, . . . for a true place of one’s own, for the experience of identity-in-connection, grow increasingly difficult to satisfy.”
—Andreas Weber, Enlivenment
September 3, 2025 at 9:44 PM