Category: Activism

Questions for ATS Readers

This post will serve as a thread in which readers of ATS can voice their opinions of our work. What do you like or dislike about ATS? What topical issues would you prefer to see covered or discussed more frequently? What would you like to see changed or […]

A THIRD of Americans agree with Marjorie Taylor Greene’s ‘national divorce’ call: 47% of Republicans back bid for red states to split, according to shocking poll

By Katelyn Caralle, U.S. Political Reporter For Dailymail.com Republican firebrand Marjorie Taylor Greene says the U.S. needs a ‘national divorce’ between red and blue states A shocking new poll shows that one-third of Americans agree with this idea Two-thirds of independent voters disagree that there should be separation  […]

Cheney blasts Marjorie Taylor Greene’s call for a ‘national divorce’ between liberal and conservative states

Yes! First Ann Coulter, now MTG. We pan-secessionists now have a rep in Congress. Liz Cheney represents everything we are fighting against. “You swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution,” Cheney tweeted. “Secession is unconstitutional. No member of Congress should advocate secession, Marjorie.” Rep. Liz Cheney, […]

Activism as Education

By David Pan  Telos This week we have released a podcast interview with J. E. Elliott, who discusses his recent article, “Brand English and Its Discontents: Situating Truth and Value in the University Today” in Telos 200. I discuss with him the way in which activism has become the focus […]

Next Year in Digital Jerusalem

Technology has helped entrepreneurs launch new companies and currencies. Will it help them start a new nation? Michael Gibson August 8, 2022 Economy, finance, and budgets Technology and Innovation The Network State: How to Start a Country, by Balaji Srinivasan (self-published, 474 pp., $9.99) Israel started with a […]

The Network State: A Review

Can political states unmoor themselves from geographical borders and exist solely online? Balaji Srinivasan’s new book explores the political potential of emerging technologies. Aviezer Tucker 18 Nov 2022, 8:00 am The Network State: How To Start a New Country by Balaji Srinivasan (self-published, 474 pp., $9.99) Once upon […]

Decentralized cities

Jonathan Hillis Mar 7, 2021 • 5 min read One of the favorite past times of tech twitter during the pandemic has been predicting the next Silicon Valley.Austin, with its natural beauty, weird-chill vibe, flagship university, killer BBQ, and long history of technology companies is an obvious choice. […]

Proving that decentralization can win

Mises Institute Congratulations to three Mises Caucus-endorsed candidates who won their local races Tuesday: Aron Lam—Mayor (Keenesburg, Colorado) David Tyler—City Council (East Ridge, Tennessee) Bill Schult—City Council (Crescent Springs, Kentucky) Aron, Bill, and David asked for our endorsement*—and we gave it—because they believe the best way to win practical gains for […]

It’s time to break up

By Tom Woods It’s difficult to know exactly when it happened, but not long ago many Americans suddenly looked around and discovered that they and their neighbors inhabited completely different moral universes. Whether it’s Black Lives Matter, or teaching gender theory to children, or the usefulness or otherwise of […]

Smaller Is Better

Ep. 2223 Smaller Is Better Ryan McMaken of the Mises Institute joins me to make a worldwide case for smaller states, decentralization, and secession. Special Offer We love our monthly Happily date box — it’s full of games, recipes, and activities that bring us closer together. With a […]

Learning from Venezuela’s Missteps in Building Urban Popular Power: Decentralization, Participatory Budgeting, Communal Councils and Comunes

By María Pilar García-Guadilla and Carlos G. Torrealba COMMUNES in Venezuela, once hopeful experiments in local direct democracy and popular power under the socialism of the XXI century have largely succumbed to the crushing crisis gripping the country. . What can we learn from their demise? READ MORE

A Time to Dig Trenches

By Ernst van Zyl — 1 day ago What Westerners can learn from South Africa “Small nations. The concept is not quantitative; it points to a condition; a fate; small nations lack that felicitous sense of an eternal past and future; at a given moment in their history, […]

On Loans

New York Review of Books In October 2011 Jeff Madrick wrote a dispatch from Zuccotti Park for the Review. Three weeks after protesters had first converged there under the banner “Occupy Wall Street,” he found that the movement—initially mocked in the media for its youth and unseriousness—was coming […]