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 Thanks for listening! Please like, comment, subscribe, and share! --- If you'd like to see more anarchist and anti-authoritarian interviews, please consider supporting this project financially by becoming a patron at https://www.patreon.com/nonserviammedia Follow Non Serviam Media Collective on: Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/nonserviammedia.bsky.social Mastodon https://kolektiva.social/@nonserviammedia As well as Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. Connect with Lucy Steigerwald via: https://bsky.app/profile/lucystag.bsky.social https://mastodon.social/@LucyStag https://lucysteigerwald.substack.com/

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 Thanks for listening! Please like, comment, subscribe, and share! --- If you'd like to see more anarchist and anti-authoritarian interviews, please consider supporting this project financially by becoming a patron at https://www.patreon.com/nonserviammedia Follow Non Serviam Media Collective on: Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/nonserviammedia.bsky.social Mastodon https://kolektiva.social/@nonserviammedia As well as Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. Connect with Lucy Steigerwald via: https://bsky.app/profile/lucystag.bsky.social https://mastodon.social/@LucyStag https://lucysteigerwald.substack.com/

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 Thanks for listening! Please like, comment, subscribe, and share! --- If you'd like to see more anarchist and anti-authoritarian interviews, please consider supporting this project financially by becoming a patron at https://www.patreon.com/nonserviammedia Follow Non Serviam Media Collective on: Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/nonserviammedia.bsky.social Mastodon https://kolektiva.social/@nonserviammedia As well as Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. Connect with Lucy Steigerwald via: https://bsky.app/profile/lucystag.bsky.social https://mastodon.social/@LucyStag https://lucysteigerwald.substack.com/

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 Thanks for listening! Please like, comment, subscribe, and share! --- If you'd like to see more anarchist and anti-authoritarian interviews, please consider supporting this project financially by becoming a patron at https://www.patreon.com/nonserviammedia Follow Non Serviam Media Collective on: Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/nonserviammedia.bsky.social Mastodon https://kolektiva.social/@nonserviammedia As well as Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. Connect with Lucy Steigerwald via: https://bsky.app/profile/lucystag.bsky.social https://mastodon.social/@LucyStag https://lucysteigerwald.substack.com/

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 Thanks for listening! Please like, comment, subscribe, and share! --- If you'd like to see more anarchist and anti-authoritarian interviews, please consider supporting this project financially by becoming a patron at https://www.patreon.com/nonserviammedia Follow Non Serviam Media Collective on: Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/nonserviammedia.bsky.social Mastodon https://kolektiva.social/@nonserviammedia As well as Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. Connect with Lucy Steigerwald via: https://bsky.app/profile/lucystag.bsky.social https://mastodon.social/@LucyStag https://lucysteigerwald.substack.com/

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 Thanks for listening! Please like, comment, subscribe, and share! --- If you'd like to see more anarchist and anti-authoritarian interviews, please consider supporting this project financially by becoming a patron at https://www.patreon.com/nonserviammedia Follow Non Serviam Media Collective on: Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/nonserviammedia.bsky.social Mastodon https://kolektiva.social/@nonserviammedia As well as Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. Connect with Lucy Steigerwald via: https://bsky.app/profile/lucystag.bsky.social https://mastodon.social/@LucyStag https://lucysteigerwald.substack.com/

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 Thanks for listening! Please like, comment, subscribe, and share! --- If you'd like to see more anarchist and anti-authoritarian interviews, please consider supporting this project financially by becoming a patron at https://www.patreon.com/nonserviammedia Follow Non Serviam Media Collective on: Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/nonserviammedia.bsky.social Mastodon https://kolektiva.social/@nonserviammedia As well as Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. Connect with Lucy Steigerwald via: https://bsky.app/profile/lucystag.bsky.social https://mastodon.social/@LucyStag https://lucysteigerwald.substack.com/

For episode 69 of NSP we're joined by historian Anthony Comegna. We spoke about left libertarianism, the overlaps of Marxism and classical liberalism, education and the limits of "teaching history", Benjamin Lay, the Loco-Focos, and more. Anthony Comegna is a historian and senior programs manager at the Institute for Humane Studies. He is a specialist in 19th century American political and intellectual history and the history of radical liberalism. Links: https://bsky.app/profile/anthonycomegna.bsky.social/ https://reason.com/people/anthony-comegna/ https://www.libertarianism.org/people/anthony-comegna https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNeQlRoOOIMmr3GECjAiyNMvlHgsK1WYt&si=wI6SyVEUIdRkAO3q Chapters: 00:00:00 Introduction 00:09:59 What is History? 00:35:29 Benjamin Lay 00:54:25 Propagandized History 01:09:07 Libertarians 01:25:20 Getting Involved 01:36:41 Lightning Round 01:42:45 Book Recommendations 01:45:39 Cappuccino and Outro Thanks for listening! Please like, comment, subscribe, and share! --- If you'd like to see more anarchist and anti-authoritarian interviews, please consider supporting this project financially by becoming a patron at https://www.patreon.com/nonserviammedia Follow Non Serviam Media Collective on: Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/nonserviammedia.bsky.social Mastodon https://kolektiva.social/@nonserviammedia As well as Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. Connect with Lucy Steigerwald via: https://bsky.app/profile/lucystag.bsky.social https://mastodon.social/@LucyStag https://lucysteigerwald.substack.com/

For Episode 68, we spoke with our friend Zak Woodman about philosophy, economics, artificial intelligence, immigration, right-wing hypocrisy, and the ways the State violates people's rights. Zachary Woodman is the podcast coordinator at Center for a Stateless Society, deputy editor of Notes on Liberty, and an independent scholar. His research interests are in political economy, social and political philosophy, philosophy of mind, meta-ethics and applied ethics. Links: https://bsky.app/profile/zacharywoodman.bsky.social https://c4ss.org/content/author/zachary-woodman https://notesonliberty.com/author/thefatalconceitum/ Chapters: 00:00:00 Intro 00:08:07 Influential Anarchists 00:13:32 Capitalism 00:19:13 Hiatus 00:23:12 The Media Environment 00:35:14 Artificial Intelligence 00:44:54 Intellectual Property 01:00:08 Immigration and State Tyranny 01:15:45 The Pathological Fears of the Majority 01:32:59 Lightning Round 01:45:22 Outro Thanks for listening! Please like, comment, subscribe, and share! --- If you'd like to see more anarchist and anti-authoritarian interviews, please consider supporting this project financially by becoming a patron at www.patreon.com/nonserviammedia Follow Non Serviam Media Collective on: Bluesky bsky.app/profile/nonserviammedia.bsky.social Mastodon kolektiva.social/@nonserviammedia As well as Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and X/Twitter. Connect with Lucy Steigerwald via: mastodon.social/@LucyStag bsky.app/profile/lucystag.bsky.social x.com/LucyStag lucysteigerwald.substack.com/

For Episode 67, we spoke with activist and writer William C. Anderson about racism, electoral politics, DEI backlash, anarchism's relation to socialism, Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin and JoNina Abron-Ervin, and the Black radical tradition. William C. Anderson is a writer and activist from Birmingham, Alabama. His work has appeared in The Guardian, MTV, British Journal of Photography, Logic(s) Magazine, and Prism, where he’s a monthly columnist. He is the author of The Nation on No Map (AK Press 2021) and co-author of As Black as Resistance (AK Press 2018). He’s also the co-founder of Offshoot Journal and provides creative direction as a producer of the Black Autonomy Podcast. His writings have been included in the anthologies, Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? (Haymarket 2016) and No Selves to Defend (Mariame Kaba 2014). Links: https://bsky.app/profile/williamcson.bsky.social https://williamcanderson.info/ https://offshootjournal.org/ https://blackautonomy.libsyn.com/ Chapters: 00:00:00 Intro 00:09:29 Distinctly Black Anarchism 00:19:21 Political Education 00:25:24 Representation 00:37:02 The Lead-up to Fascism 00:42:49 Ethnonationalism 00:49:42 Online Leftist Posturing 00:56:37 Marx's Influence 01:08:31 Meet the Ervins 01:14:39 Lightning Round Plus 01:35:56 Media Recommendations 01:39:01 Outro Thanks for listening! Please like, comment, subscribe, and share! --- If you'd like to see more anarchist and anti-authoritarian interviews, please consider supporting this project financially by becoming a patron at www.patreon.com/nonserviammedia Follow Non Serviam Media Collective on: Bluesky bsky.app/profile/nonserviammedia.bsky.social Mastodon kolektiva.social/@nonserviammedia As well as Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and X/Twitter. Connect with Lucy Steigerwald via: mastodon.social/@LucyStag bsky.app/profile/lucystag.bsky.social x.com/LucyStag lucysteigerwald.substack.com/