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For NSP 79, we spoke with academic Kevin Currie about his new book, "Education Without the State: Classic Anarchist Writings on Education from Godwin to Goldman." We discuss the purposes of education, unschooling, school choice, children's' rights, libertarianism, and more.

Bio:

Kevin Currie is a Teaching Professor in East Carolina University's Department of Educational Leadership and Foundations. His work focuses on the philosophy and history of education and libertarian forms of education. His book Education in the Marketplace is an intellectual history of pro-market arguments for school choice. His newest book, Education Without the State, is an edited collection of articles and chapters by renowned anarchists on the topic of education and children's rights.

Contact him at [email protected]

Links:

https://sites.google.com/view/kevincurrieknight

https://www.educationwithoutthestate.com

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-11778-8

Chapters:

00:00:00 Introduction

00:08:23 What is Education?

00:19:09 Recent Shifts in American Education

00:26:30 Education Without The State

00:32:08 School Choice, Homeschooling, Unschooling

00:48:35 Unschooling is Uncoerced Learning

00:59:25 Education as Growth

01:09:19 Steelmanning Traditional Education

01:12:19 Large Language Models

01:15:03 Lightning Round and Open Discussion

01:30:05 Modern Day Fascism

01:33:22 Reading Recommendations

01:35:13 Outro

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For NSP 78, we spoke with Vicky Osterweil about her recent book The Extended Universe. We discussed Disney's historical and current impact on media and culture, intellectual property, fandom, and more.

Vicky Osterweil is a Philadelphia-based writer, agitator, and worker whose first book, In Defense of Looting, described historical struggles for liberation in the US. She is a member of the anarchist journal CAW and has written about the intersections of film, politics, and culture for publications such as The Paris Review, Art in America, Al Jazeera America, The Baffler, Dissent, Lux Magazine, and The New Inquiry, where she was also a culture editor for many years. Her new book is "The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and Took Over the World"

Link:

https://www.haymarketbooks.org/authors/1639-vicky-osterweil

https://www.cawshinythings.com/author/vicky/

https://kolektiva.social/@VickyACAB

https://bsky.app/profile/vickyacab.bsky.social

Chapters:

00:00:00 Introduction

00:05:33 Discussing the Book

00:16:48 Everything is Franchised

00:32:23 Is it OK to enjoy things?

00:44:38 A Sprinkle of IP

01:00:59 Cultural Reproduction, Property, and Power

01:12:08 Lightning Round and Outro

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Economist Mikayla Novak joins NSP to discuss her books Rainbow Liberty and Liberal Emancipation. We also talk about sociology, radical liberalism, fascist economy, and more.

Mikayla Novak is a Senior Fellow in the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. She has an economics doctorate awarded by RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, and a sociology PhD from The Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. Prior to academia in the U.S., Mikayla worked in the Australian public service as well as in think-tanks. Mikayla Novak is the author of several books, including the upcoming Routledge publication, Rainbow Liberty, and has authored over 30 peer-review journal articles. Her research interests include Austrian and evolutionary economics, institutional economics, public choice, and social philosophy and theory.

Link:

https://www.mercatus.org/hayekprogram/scholars/mikayla-novak

https://www.routledge.com/Rainbow-Liberty-Liberal-Political-Economy-and-Queer-Freedom/Goodman-Lofthouse-Novak/p/book/9781041016441

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-94406-2

Chapters:

00:00:00 Introduction

00:12:17 Self-Governance without the State

00:17:21 Libertarian Thought Traps

00:20:37 Rainbow Liberty Book

00:33:05 Queerness and Markets

00:45:45 Charlotte Twight, Political Transaction Costs, and Technocratic Fascism

00:56:21 Liberal Emancipation Book

01:01:09 Radicalism via Don Lavoie

01:08:49 The Relevance of Sociology

01:11:28 Lightning Round and Outro

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Political theorist Martin Jacobson joins NSP to discuss reconciling anarchism and geoism. We talk about land value, non-statist redistribution methods, markets, effective altruism, animal ethics, and more.

Martin Jacobson is a political theorist from Uppsala, Sweden, working in the intersection of politics, philosophy, and economics. His 2024 Ph.D. thesis, on the relationship between geoism and anarchism, was awarded the Swedish Political Science Association’s Prize for best Ph.D. thesis 2022-24. Martin was previously a Research Fellow at the Norwegian Nobel Institute, and is currently a Visiting Fulbright Scholar at Virginia Tech. Aside from academic research, he is also involved with Georgist movement building and engaged in the Effective Altruism movement.

Link:

https://progressandpoverty.substack.com/p/geoism-as-part-of-the-left-libertarian

https://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1852324&dswid=9012

Chapters:

00:00:00 Introduction

00:05:47 Geoism

00:21:27 Land vs. Property

00:24:11 Monopoly

00:27:38 Redistributing Land without Bloodshed

00:34:58 Nonstate Land Management

00:40:30 Markets and Land Valuation

00:46:27 Swedish Insights

00:49:19 Public Investment of Land Value Tax

00:57:02 Effective Altruism

01:09:54 Lightning Round

01:28:44 Muh Meats

01:41:25 Futurism and Utopia

01:51:24 Final Thoughts and Outro

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For NSP 75, we spoke with Nathan Goodman about the violence of immigration restrictions and border militarization. We also discussed economics, big tent vs smaller tent alliances, and the relationship between anarchism and liberalism.

Nathan Goodman is a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, where he is a Senior Fellow at the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. He has worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at New York University, where he was affiliated with the Program on the Foundations of the Market Economy. He earned his PhD in economics from George Mason University. His research focuses on self-governance, civil liberties, and the militarization of U.S. border policies. Previously, he was the Lysander Spooner Research Scholar in Abolitionist Studies at the Center for a Stateless Society. He writes on Substack at Guns, Guards, and Govermant

Links:

https://gunsguardsandgovernance.substack.com/p/guns-guards-and-governance

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10602-025-09499-8

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10602-024-09440-5

https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/5349890-cbp-drone-surveillance-los-angeles/

https://www.mercatus.org/hayekprogram/scholars/nathan-goodman

Chapters:

00:00:00 Introduction

00:08:06 Differentiating Tendencies

00:16:00 Shifting Assessments of Allies

00:32:59 Anarchism and Liberalism

00:46:17 Immigration Policy Effects

00:58:20 The Backlash to ICE

01:12:19 Sanctuaries

01:21:17 Lightning Round and Outro

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For NSP 74, we spoke with Mike Gathers about the politics of Robert Anton Wilson!

In addition, we talked about libertarianism, techno-optimism, the limits of the left-right spectrum, and Mike's recently published book with Hilaritas Press titled, "A Non Euclidian Perspective: Robert Anton Wilson’s Political Commentaries 1960-2005" containing many previously published political articles and interviews of RAW.

Mike Gathers serves as a podcast host and editor at Hilaritas Press where he helped produce the books A Non-Euclidean Perspective: Robert Anton Wilson’s Political Commentaries 1960-2005 and Lion of Light: Robert Anton Wilson on Aleister Crowley. He’s had a career spanning from engineering and management to private practice psychotherapy to executive coaching. He’s currently on a sabbatical with an interest in writing more.

Links:

https://linktr.ee/mgathers23

https://intelligenceincrease.substack.com/

https://www.hilaritaspress.com/podcasts/

https://www.hilaritaspress.com/portfolio-item/a-non-euclidean-perspective/

Chapters:

00:00:00 Introduction

00:18:14 Discordianism

00:23:49 Placing R.A.W. On the Political Spectrum

00:32:36 The Information Era

00:40:16 The Purpose Behind the Book

00:44:14 Descendants of the 60s

00:46:50 The Crowley Connection

00:51:08 Objectivist Dogmatism

00:53:39 Lightning Round

01:08:07 Outro

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For NSP 73 we spoke with Victoria Law about mass incarceration, COVID-19 in prisons, counterproductive reform, abolition, and more.

Victoria Law is a journalist and author who writes about incarceration, resistance and gender. Her most recent book is Corridors of Contagion: How the Pandemic Exposed the Cruelties of Incarceration.

Links:

https://victorialaw.net

https://truthout.org/authors/victoria-law

https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2447-corridors-of-contagion

https://bsky.app/profile/victorialaw.bsky.social

Chapters:

00:00:00 Introduction

00:11:17 Political and Politicized Prisoners

00:14:06 Reforming Treatment of Prisoners

00:25:53 Kalief Browder and Rikers Island

00:41:55 Clemency

00:49:51 Corridors of Contagion

00:59:59 American Carceral Mythos

01:09:47 Looking Forward

01:22:19 The Goal of Abolitionism

01:27:22 Lighting Round and Outro

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For NSP 72 we spoke with Bryce and Ary from No More Deaths about immigration, border militarization, providing aid in the desert, the trail of Scott Warren, rising xenophobia, and more.

No More Deaths is a humanitarian organization based in southern Arizona whose mission is to end death and suffering in the Mexico–US borderlands.

Bryce Peterson has been organizing and doing direct aid on the US-Mexico border for four years and was involved in recent abuse documentation for No More Deaths

Ary Tischler has been volunteering with No More Deaths for six years and is currently working as NMD's social media coordinator.

Links:

https://nomoredeaths.org/

https://bsky.app/profile/nomoredeaths.bsky.social

Chapters:

00:00:00 Introduction

00:21:16 Good Samaritans

00:27:11 The Trial of Scott Warren

00:34:05 A Not New Problem

00:41:09 Policies That Could Improve Conditions

00:47:44 Climate and Policy

00:53:52 Getting Involved

00:58:31 Lightning Round and Outro

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For NSP 71 we spoke with William Gillis of the Fully Informed Jury Association and Center for a Stateless Society about jury nullification and his new book "Did the Science Wars Take Place?"

Links:

https://humaniterations.net/

https://fija.org/

https://store.c4ss.org/index.php/product/did-the-science-wars-take-place-the-political-ethical-stakes-of-radical-realism-preorder/

https://mastodon.social/@rechelon

https://bsky.app/profile/rechelon.bsky.social

Chapters:

00:00:00 Introduction

00:09:58 Unexpected Developments in Politics

00:16:46 Influences

00:20:47 What is Jury Nullification?

00:27:09 Jury Nullification Activism

00:40:21 A Downside to Jury Nullification?

00:49:52 What are the Science Wars?

00:58:18 Anti-realists: Do they exist?

01:08:51 Academic Infighting

01:27:14 Lightning Round and Outro

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For NSP 70 we spoke with anarchist, writer, and translator Scott Campbell about resistance, decolonialism, academia, Palestine, Mexico, lessons from Occupy, and more.

Scott Campbell (he/him) is an anarchist writer, translator, educator, parent, partner, and grad student. Over the years he has worked with multiple radical independent media platforms, most notably El Enemigo Común and It's Going Down, as well as published essays in several anthologies. His work focuses primarily on Mexico and Palestine.

Links:

https://kolektiva.social/@susurros

https://fallingintoincandescence.com/

https://itsgoingdown.org/author/scott/

Chapters:

00:00:00 Introduction

00:13:06 Decoloniality in Movement Culture

00:35:59 Assessing the Current Climate of Dissent

00:49:43 Extracting Good from Questionable Institutions

00:58:54 Writing

01:07:23 Academia

01:17:06 Critiquing Occupation of Space

01:28:57 Lightning Round and Outro

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