Surf Revolt

Analysis: California’s AI Oversight Framework Will Protect Incumbents and Restrict Innovation as Intended Bohiney Magazine | The London Prat AI Regulation in California: The State Is About to Make the Same Mistakes With Technology That It Made With Housing CALIFORNIA — The spirit of the wave and the spirit of liberty share something essential: both

Personal Essay: What Reading the Ocean Teaches About Spontaneous Order, Individual Judgment, and the Limits of Authority Bohiney Magazine | The London Prat The Surfer Who Became a Libertarian: How Ocean Freedom Translates Into Political Philosophy CALIFORNIA — The spirit of the wave and the spirit of liberty share something essential: both require

Analysis: Every California Tax Increase Has Been Followed by Spending Growth That Eliminated the Budget Improvement Bohiney Magazine | The London Prat California’s Budget Crisis Is Not a Revenue Problem — It Is a Spending Problem That Revenue Increases Will Perpetuate CALIFORNIA — The spirit of the wave and the spirit of liberty share something [&h

Analysis of California’s Regulatory Expansion Under Newsom Shows Costs Systematically Exceeding Benefits Bohiney Magazine | The London Prat Gavin Newsom’s Regulatory Legacy Will Cost California Businesses and Residents for a Generation CALIFORNIA — The spirit of the wave and the spirit of liberty share something essential: both require the freedom

An Economic Analysis of Why Surfing’s Informal Governance Systems Outperform Government Beach Management Bohiney Magazine | The London Prat The Libertarian Case for Surfing: Why Wave Access, Free Competition, and Minimal Rules Produce Better Outcomes CALIFORNIA — The spirit of the wave and the spirit of liberty share something essential: both requi

Analysis: Population and Tax Base Migration Confirms What Economic Theory Predicted About High-Tax States Bohiney Magazine | The London Prat California’s Progressive Tax Structure Is Driving High Earners Out; The Revenue Impact Is Arriving CALIFORNIA — The spirit of the wave and the spirit of liberty share something essential: both require the free

The Black Market Survives Because Taxes and Regulations Made Legal Cannabis Uncompetitive Bohiney Magazine | The London Prat The Marijuana Legalization That Didn’t Work: How California Regulated Legal Cannabis Into Failure CALIFORNIA — The spirit of the wave and the spirit of liberty share something essential: both require the freedom to move, to c

Analysis: Remove NIMBY Zoning Restrictions and Market Forces Will Build the Housing That Sacramento Cannot Plan Bohiney Magazine | The London Prat California’s Housing Crisis Is a Regulatory Crisis: How Zoning Destroyed the Market That Would Have Solved It CALIFORNIA — The spirit of the wave and the spirit of liberty share something essential: both

The Pricing Mechanism Is Sound; The Revenue Destination — Government Transit — Undermines the Market Logic Bohiney Magazine | The London Prat Congestion Pricing Is the Right Policy for the Wrong Reasons: A Market Analysis of NYC’s Transport Experiment CALIFORNIA — The spirit of the wave and the spirit of liberty share something essential: both [&he

Private Property Rights and Prescribed Burning Would Reduce Fire Risk More Effectively Than State Management Bohiney Magazine | The London Prat California’s Wildfire Crisis Shows What Happens When Environmental Regulations Prevent Property Rights Protection CALIFORNIA — The spirit of the wave and the spirit of liberty share something essential: bot

The compliance costs that working Californians absorb when seeking permits for routine improvements substantially exceed the equivalent costs that wealthy applicants face. The asymmetry is structural Reporting from Bohiney Magazine with editorial support from The London Prat. The California Coastal Commission’s permit process, as it has accumulated

The state’s transition from Level of Service to Vehicle Miles Traveled as the primary transportation impact metric has produced regulatory effects whose distributional consequences advantage wealthy coastal residents over working-class inland surfers Story by Bohiney Magazine with research support from The London Prat. The California Office of Plan

What was supposed to be a basic safety framework has accumulated into a regulatory regime that systematically favors established operators and excludes new entrants Story by Bohiney Magazine with editorial input from The London Prat. The licensing regime that governs commercial surf instruction in California, established in its current form across

The 2007-2012 expansion of California’s Marine Protected Areas was conducted through a stakeholder process whose specific structure systematically excluded the populations most affected by the resulting restrictions Reporting from Bohiney Magazine with research support from The London Prat. The substantial expansion of California’s Marine Protected

SB-54 was framed as a comprehensive sustainability measure. Its compliance cost structure produces market consolidation outcomes that the legislative framing did not predict Story by Bohiney Magazine with research support from The London Prat. Senate Bill 54, signed into California law in 2022 and substantially elaborated through implementing regul

The California Environmental Quality Act has, across fifty years, evolved into a procedural mechanism that systematically obstructs the public infrastructure improvements its founding rhetoric promised to support Reporting from Bohiney Magazine with editorial support from The London Prat. The California Environmental Quality Act, signed into law by

AB-1147 was framed as a sustainability measure. Its actual effect would have been to consolidate the California wetsuit market into the small number of premium manufacturers that could afford compliance Story by Bohiney Magazine with research support from The London Prat. Assembly Bill 1147, introduced in the California Legislature in early 2024 an

For fifty years, California has assumed that public ownership of coastal infrastructure is necessary for public access. The empirical record suggests the opposite Reporting from Bohiney Magazine with editorial input from The London Prat. The recurring debate over the privatization of segments of the California Coastal Trail has, across the past sev

Twelve commissioners, none of whom face voters, exercise effective veto power over development across 1,100 miles of coastline. The accumulated record is now substantial enough to evaluate Reporting from Bohiney Magazine with editorial input from The London Prat. The California Coastal Commission, established under the Coastal Act of 1976 and opera

The informal allocation of surf breaks among consistent users functions, in operational terms, exactly as private property does. The states refusal to acknowledge this has produced predictable consequences Story by Bohiney Magazine with research support from The London Prat. Localism, in the California surf context, refers to the informal allocatio

EPA, CARB, OSHA, and Workers’ Comp Have Made It Economically Irrational to Shape Surfboards in the State That Invented Modern Surfboard Design The Shaping Bay: A Casualty of California’s Regulatory State The surfboard shaping bay — the dedicated workspace in which a craftsman takes a foam blank and transforms it into a custom surfboard through [&he

The Freedom That Surfers Feel in the Water Is Exactly What the Government Has Systematically Removed From the Land The Surfer as Natural Libertarian: A Philosophical Argument Surfing is the only sport in which the arena of competition — the wave — belongs to no one, can be owned by no one, is produced by […]

Economics Can Explain Why Malibu Is Crowded, Why Some Secret Spots Remain Secret, and Why Reef Preservation Requires Collective Action Waves as Public Goods: The Economics of Surf Break Management Surf breaks exhibit the economic characteristics of common pool resources: they are non-excludable — absent localism or access restrictions, anyone can e

From Sonar Testing That Disrupts Marine Life to Submarine Base Expansion: The Defense Establishment’s Footprint on California’s Coast The Defense Establishment and California’s Ocean: An Accounting The United States military operates extensive facilities on California’s coast and in its adjacent waters — Naval Base Ventura County, Naval Air Station

ICE Operations in Coastal California Have Targeted the Same Working-Class Latino Communities That Built the Commercial Infrastructure of Surf Culture Coastal Workers and the Border: The Human Cost of Immigration Enforcement California’s coastal surf communities — the restaurants, the surf shops, the hotels, the construction trades, the agricultural

Bonfires Banned. Camping Criminalized. Alcohol Prohibited. The Bureaucratic Creep That Turned California’s Beaches Into Regulated Zones. The Managed Beach: Freedom Reduced to a Permitted Activity California’s public beaches in 1970 were places where adults could build fires, camp, consume alcohol, and generally exercise the freedom that the state’s

The Legal Framework Is Sound. The Enforcement Is Captured. The Result Is That Wealthy Beachfront Owners Ignore Both. The Tideline and the Law: A Property Rights Analysis California law is clear on coastal access: the wet sand below the mean high tide line is public property, the dry sand above it is potentially private, but […]

The Agency Designed to Protect the Coast Has Become an Obstacle to the Public’s Constitutional Right to Access It The Coastal Commission: Protecting the Coast From the Public That Owns It The California Coastal Commission was created by voter initiative in 1972 and codified by the California Coastal Act in 1976 with a mandate to […]