Are Free Zones Really Free?
The Hidden Globe takes a skeptical but nuanced look at quasi-autonomous territories in the cracks of the map.
Proprietary Communities
The Great American City Upon a Hill Is Always Under Construction
American history is often a story of people leaving to try to build their voluntary utopias.
This Company Coal Town in Iowa Was a 'Black Utopia'
It was integrated, it was unionized—and it was a company town.
DeSantis vs. Disney: Florida's Fight Over Private Governance
Gov. Ron DeSantis’ crusade to end America's greatest success in private governance.
The Villages Is America's Boomer Boomtown
The Florida master-planned retirement community spans 33 square miles and counting.
The Death of Walt Disney's Private Dream City?
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to end a wildly successful half-century experiment in municipal governance.
DeSantis Calls for End of Walt Disney World's Self-Rule
Culture war conservatism leads to less private industry freedom for the pettiest of reasons.
City Building and Black Power
That time a civil rights activist teamed up with Richard Nixon to build a black-run town in rural North Carolina
Rose Island
The new film never wavers in its appreciation for these seasteading heroes as they piss off all the right people in pursuit of their slice of utopia.
Stossel: Live Free at Sea
Maybe the ocean is a place where we can experiment with new ways of living.
Thai Government Takes Over Seastead Near the Thai Coast
The Thai government thinks floating around just outside its territorial waters could justify a death sentence for seasteaders.
Seasteading Starts Small Off Coast of Thailand, but It Is Starting
Chad Elwartowski sees the spar beneath his seastead as a floating middle finger to those who "want to control other people's lives through force."
First Seastead in International Waters Now Occupied, Thanks to Bitcoin Wealth
Two libertarians now have a private home off the coast of Thailand-proof of concept for a world of more competitive governance and greater ocean environmental health.
When Governments Suspend Their Own Rules
Special economic zones can be anything from tools of crony capitalism to seeds of a freer world order.
Delaware's Odd, Beautiful, Contentious, Private Utopia
Arden is a suburb, an artist's colony, and a radical political experiment.
Seasteading in Paradise
New promise for floating free communities in a Polynesian lagoon—but is the movement leaving libertarianism behind?
Seasteading Institute Comes to Agreement with French Polynesia About Developing a Seastead
If the bureaucratic hurdles can be jumped, a real seastead could be floating in French Polynesian water in 2018.
Gurgaon: India's Private City
An Indian city's embrace of globalism, trade, and hypergrowth is a living response to the protectionist impulse sweeping America.
A New Place to Think About "Free Cities"
Can special economic zones and private cities morph to arenas for widespread, unprecedented market and regulatory liberty?
Don't Compare Vets' Treatment Wait Times to Disney Park Lines
The private sector strives to improve, while the government agency makes excuses.
What the TSA Should Learn from Disney World, But Won't
Compare the lines at the Magic Kingdom with those at the Orlando International Airport and behold the advantage of free markets over government monopolies.
Stillborn Utopia
Masdar City is an $18 billion attempt to build a zero-carbon community on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi. It's empty.
Friday A/V Club: The Legend of Action Park
It was the '80s. It was New Jersey. It was another place and time.
Transforming a Tower
An abandoned real estate project becomes a hive of self-organized activity.
'Defensible' Planned Community Signs-Up Hundreds of Would-Be Residents
Citadel would be partially funded by weapons-manufacturing
Is Seasteading the Future?
We need all the alternatives to big arthritic government we can get.
