What’s yours is mine, what’s mine’s my own

The original Little House on the Prairie (1974-1983) was based on the books of Laura Ingalls Wilder. The new Netflix adaptation pays closer attention to the realities of the period.

In 1974, life in Cyprus was shattered by the coup and the invasion. And yet I don’t remember comparing the Ingalls’ experience of settling into Indian (Native American) territory to Cyprus when Turkish settlers moved into Turkish occupied north Cyprus. Unlike in the gloss-over-facts movies I grew up with, settlers...