Matthew Birkhold
Matthew Birkhold is a professor at The Ohio State University, focusing on law, environmental humanities, intellectual property, and Indigenous studies. He is the author of Characters Before Copyright and his essays and op-eds have appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, The Washington Post, The Paris Review, and Indian Country Today.
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Simple physics makes hauling vast ice chunks thousands of miles fiendishly difficult — but not impossible.