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This Chinese philosopher reformed politics in one generation

Am I a Democrat or a Republican?

Elysian gatherings around the world

A grassroots political party for the middle

Free speech in the age of social media

The rich are controlling our government

The "letters to an anarchist" post-mortem

Are Democrats too liberal? Or too conservative?

Writing Prompt: What movement does the world need right now?

Am I an anarchist?

What is the goal of anarchism?

How would anarchist societies protect themselves?

Will you explain anarchism to me?

Is America about to fall? Or flourish?

Asia and the future of the nation state

It's ok to live in a fantasyland

One year of my work, printed

One essay could change the future

Your ideas for improving capitalism

The Cooperatist Manifesto that inspired Mondragon

Yes, Taylor Swift is just as genius as Mary Shelley

Do we still want the future desired by the past?

Join our upcoming literary salon discussions

Three classic utopian novels—now collectibles

Mondragon as the new City-State

Writing Prompt: Fix Capitalism

Hint #3

Further reading on employee ownership

Hint #2

Founders will get much richer by exiting to employees

Hint #1

Your visions for the next Renaissance

Every company should be owned by its employees

How many hours a week do you (actually) spend on your salary job?

You’d still work if you didn’t have to

Maybe you need to have more fun

Let's read the Terra Ignota series together

Who's qualified to save the world?

What futuristic projects should I visit around the world?

I'm traveling the world to study utopia

My TEDx talk about the future of fiction

“Friends” as the ideal community

I’d rather have an investor than a publishing contract

Humanity from the perspective of robots

Substack could create the future of books

Writing Prompt: How do we create the next Renaissance?

Week 8: What communities should know about you? (Write a story about them)

No one buys books

In The Garden

Week 7: Boost your essays all over the internet

I built a castle to save the economy

I'm not going to have kids to save the economy

Your alternatives to democracy

Week 6: Examples of Pitches

Can we create a wise & enlightened citizenry?

Could AI make us wise?

Week 5: Write one (pitchable) think piece

The unbearable necessity of being online

Please come up with wildly speculative futures

The future according to artists

Week 4: One pitch several places

I'd like to open a Singapore franchise please?

Idea Labs! An open thread for collaborative worldbuilding

Week 3: The dream pitch

What if government worked like Wikipedia?

A better way to vote?

Week 2: Cross-promote one another

What if NATO became a world government?

Decouple federal government from nation-states

Designing the future in Lathe of Heaven

Week 1: Your assignments for the challenge

Writing Prompt: Come up with an alternative to democracy

Humans are good (except for that one guy)

Welcome! A quick prerequisite before we get going

Grow your influence on Substack (a workshop!)

I'm hosting four literary salons this year

I watched the Super Bowl because of Taylor Swift

The best of solarpunk architecture

Wakanda isn't an ideal utopia for Africa

I Don't Want to Grow Up

Symposium: Pro-Growth Environmentalism

Maybe women should design our sci-fi future

Yes, we still need the military

Why I’m not a free market capitalist

The rich are not causing the poor

TikTok as modern art museum

Where do we find paradise?

Let’s vote for plans, not politicians

In pursuit of a masterpiece

Symposium: How to imagine better futures

We should remove electives from higher education

How do we stop fighting on the internet?

Bring back the "Renaissance Man"

All of the humanist texts I'm studying

What is the future of church?

Humanism as the future of religion