The Border Everywhere
My conversation on the Non Serviam Podcast
My friend Lucy Steigerwald recently interviewed me on the Non Serviam Podcast. We discussed border militarization, ICE, and the prospects for challenging authoritarian immigration policies. As usual, I emphasized how border militarization endangers freedom even far from the border. The incentives associated with political power mean that the border is not merely a line. Instead, the border is everywhere. We also discussed the prospects for challenging this type of authoritarian power. This includes the current movements against ICE, as well as historical movements such as the Sanctuary Movement.
Beyond discussing border politics, we also discussed my overall political views, including the influence that both liberalism and anarchism have had on my politics. We discussed some of the ways my views have evolved over the years, and some of the reasons for these changes.
You can listen to the conversation on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.
Some other recent podcast appearances
In addition to this podcast conversation, I’ve also appeared on several other podcasts in recent months.
Hamsters recently hosted a discussion of my chapter The Polycentric Production of Global Public Goods, which was published in Brandon Christensen’s edited volume Polycentric Federalism and World Orders.
My friend Bill Glod of the Equal Freedom Institute spoke with me about my chapter “A Radical Liberal Approach to LGBTQ Emancipation.” This chapter was published in my friend and colleague Mikayla Novak’s edited volume Liberal Emancipation. The Equal Freedom Institute has a great series of conversations about the book on their YouTube channel, and Bill’s interview with me is part of that series.
A couple of months ago, my friend and coauthor Otto Lehto had me as the first guest for his series Conversations with Otto. We discussed mainline economics as well as our coauthored paper “Intellectual Property, Complex Externalities, and the Knowledge Commons.”
4. Back in December 2025, my friend and colleague Chris Coyne had me and Karla Segovia on the Hayek Program Podcast to discuss our paper “(Un)stable Peace in El Salvador,” which Karla and I coauthored with Abigail R. Hall. We discussed El Salvador’s civil war, as well as how the ideas of economist Kenneth Boulding can help explain this conflict.