The Moral Hinge

The Moral Hinge

Rooted: Why Place Matters to What We Owe

The tradition's economic ethics have always been addressed to specific people in specific places. The abstraction of place is part of what the displacement produced.

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Pete Hamm
Jul 25, 2026
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A quiet photograph of a weathered asphalt country road at twilight, with an old wooden fence post on the shoulder and a warm light glowing from a house in the soft-focus distance.
The geography of obligation: Recovering the rooted self and closing the distance within the specific places we actually inhabit.
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