Johannes Kaiser Interview: Free Cities in Libertarian Chile
Can you fight the state by becoming the state? It is the one question every political libertarian has to answer, and Johannes Kaiser has heard it more often than most. Last November, the leader of Chile’s National...
Free Cities Updates: Guantánamo Bay Book, US Free Cities Meetup, Startup Week in Próspera
The Case for a Free City at Guantánamo Bay
“The institutional architecture of human settlements is more consequential than ordinary political discourse acknowledges.” —Alexander D. Voss, A Country That BuildsAlexander D. Voss’s new book makes a claim that...
People Go Where They Are Treated Best
There is a line in Jamie Dimon’s 2025 letter to JPMorgan shareholders that reads like a warning shot aimed at high-tax state capitals. “Individuals vote with their feet,” he wrote. “You can already see a fairly large...
Beauty as Infrastructure: Why Free Cities Should Invest in It Early
If you are building a Free City, a special economic zone, or any new jurisdiction from scratch, here is a piece of advice that sounds frivolous and is not: invest in beauty before you think you can afford to. Big...
Free Cities Updates: Mailyn Joins the Team, 3 Months Until Conference, Cities on Blockchain
Free Cities Updates: Lucy Connolly, Seasteading at Our Conference, Governance as an Investable Asset
The Autonomous Upside: Autonomous Cities Investment Thesis
Why Autonomous Cities Are the Investment Opportunity Most People Will MissImagine You Had Invested in Singapore in 1965 In 1965, Singapore was a swampy island with a gross domestic product (GDP) per capita of roughly...
Free Cities Updates: 235 Territories Ranked for Freedom, early bird tickets, Indiana.
This edition covers a new freedom index featuring 235 global territories, explains why $1,370 per year might be the per person governance cost a city should aim for, and highlights our new podcast episode taking a deep...
