Seasteading: How Floating Nations Will Restore the Environment, Enrich the Poor, Cure the Sick, and Liberate Humanity from Politicians

In these “thought-provoking visions of the future” (The Wall Street Journal), Joe Quirk and Patri Friedman of the Seasteading Institute explain how ocean cities can solve many of our environmental, technological, and civic problems, and introduce the visionaries and pioneers who are now making seasteading a reality. Our […]

Your Next Government?: From the Nation State to Stateless Nations

Governments across the globe have begun evolving from lumbering bureaucracies into smaller, more agile special jurisdictions – common-interest developments, special economic zones, and proprietary cites. Private providers increasingly deliver services that political authorities formerly monopolized, inspiring greater competition and efficiency, to the satisfaction of citizens-qua-consumers. These trends suggest […]

The Social Singularity: How decentralization will allow us to transcend politics, create global prosperity, and avoid the robot apocalypse

Max Bo‍‍‍rders is the founder and Executive Director of Social Evolution—a non-profit organization dedicated to liberating humanity through innovation. Max is also co-founder of the Future Frontiers conference and festival. His books include The Social Singularity and After Collapse. READ MORE

What Is Progressive Prosecution?

This “progressive prosecutor” phenomenon is one of the few examples I have seen of “reform within the system” actually working. Probably because prosecutors have enormous powers and can pretty much unilaterally alter the character of the criminal justice system in their own jurisdiction. A prosecutor who is ideologically […]

Anarchism and Catholicism: An Introduction

By Chase Padusniak “Anarchy,” a scary word to many, doesn’t get much use in Catholic circles. It seems downright frightening, either theologically or personally-it seems to threaten longstanding traditions of justice, not to mention the personal comfort and status of the West’s largely comfortable and assimilated Catholic population. […]