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An infrequently updated collection of essays, musings, opinions, and trivial observations…

Mark Mauikanehoalani Lovell 10/9/26 Mark Mauikanehoalani Lovell 10/9/26

HOW ISLANDS BREAK ECONOMICS

If our island communities are meant to remain living, breathing homes for the people who belong there—rather than curated theme parks for the global elite—we have to stop treating them like small parts of a continent they never belonged to.

Mark Mauikanehoalani Lovell 9/14/26 Mark Mauikanehoalani Lovell 9/14/26

THE POLITICS OF HAWAIIAN PRIORITY & the DHHL

If a society genuinely wants to honor indigenous rights, it cannot settle for casting itself as a benevolent trustee managing a pool of disenfranchised applicants. It has to be willing to share actual power.