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UnderthrowNew Western Man
Subscribe and support at Underthrow.org The iconoclasts of the Red-Green alliance aren’t just burning down France. They’re burning down the West. Their…
UnderthrowNo Going Back
Subscribe and support us at Underthrow.org. Her utopia is impossible. His golden age is gone. What if neither the future we imagine nor the past we remember is…
UnderthrowWe Need a Code
Subscribe and support us at Underthrow.org Something’s not right. You’ve felt it. Maybe at a dinner-table conversation that went cold over politics. Maybe…
UnderthrowThe Care-tel
Subscribe and support us at Underthrow.org -Nearly every time someone complains online about a crazy medical bill, it goes viral. We’ve all been there…
UnderthrowWhat is the Proper Role of Government?
Subscribe and support us at Underthrow.org--A quick quiz. No wrong answers, just interesting results. What is the proper role of government? Pick the answer…
UnderthrowThe Spell that Made Everyone Good
Human Respect Labs presents: “The Spell That Made Everyone Good” —a short animated parable on force, freedom, and the power of human respect.Please watch and…
UnderthrowKiller Charts
Subscribe and support Underthrow.org-- Something strange has happened to the American economy. Ask people whether life has become less affordable, and you’ll…
UnderthrowEvil or Sick?
The Lindsay Clancy case is resurfacing a fresh debate about mens rea and actus reus—that is, the guilty mind and the guilty act. And it’s running along the…
UnderthrowIt Still Doesn’t Work
Subscribe and support at Underthrow.org Picture this: You walk into your local grocery store in New York City. You load up your cart with fresh produce, milk…
UnderthrowIn This House, We Believe.... What Exactly?
Subscribe and support us at Underthrow.org -- Look at this yard sign. Pause the video if you need to. Surely you’ve seen it before. For those listening, it…
UnderthrowWhy Can’t You Switch Your Government?
Subscribe and support at Underthrow.org--I was having a conversation with my wife recently. “When you say you want to create a consent-based society,” she…
UnderthrowArgentina Tried Democratic Socialism. Then Came the Chainsaw.
Subscribe and support at Underthrow.org.I don’t care much for politicians. Most of them are just the bosses of a legal mafia. But there are a few exceptions…
UnderthrowActivism is Empty, Virtue is Practice
Subscribe and support at Underthrow.org You’ve seen the open letters. “Tax me more,” they say. Billionaires at Davos standing with hands over their hearts…
UnderthrowLet it Flow
Subscribe and support at Underthrow.org “Freedom is good for design,” wrote a man who knows what it means to be unfree. Adrian Bejan grew up in Romania under…
UnderthrowWash Your Hands of It
Subscribe and support at Underthrow.org Have you ever been to the doctor’s office and thought they were doing more harm than good? In 1847, a Viennese doctor…
UnderthrowFree Yourself with Subversive Innovation
Subscribe and support at Underthrow.org Here’s an important question to sit with: When government power and corporate power fuse into a single control…
UnderthrowGreetings, Young Socialists
Greetings, young Socialists. I realize you probably racked up a lot of student loan debt getting to the point you wanna support the DSA. And who doesn’t like…
UnderthrowBroken Loops
Subscribe and support at Underthrow.org I would like to thank you, dedicated readers, for the feedback on Accountability Loops. Given your encouragement, I…
UnderthrowThe Fall of Cooperatopia: A Parable
Subscribe and support at Underthrow.org -- Imagine. A group of explorers finds an island no one has ever settled. They share a peculiar passion. They love a…
UnderthrowSubscription Government
Subscribe and support us at Underthrow.org. For human beings, there are only two means of getting others to do what we want: persuasion and compulsion…
UnderthrowThe Paradox of Gender Equality
Subscribe and support at Underthrow.org. Did you know that in developed countries, we have built the most educated, most liberated generation of women in human…
UnderthrowThe Horns of a Strange Dilemma
Subscribe and support at Underthrow.orgThe more we learn about the universe, the stranger things get. That’s because, when physicists follow their best…
UnderthrowBeyond DOS (Democratic Operating System)
Subscribe and support at Underthrow.org Pick up your phone. How many apps do you have? Fifty? A hundred? You downloaded every one of them. Now imagine waking…
UnderthrowTen Online Archetypes in Your Head
Every day, strangers are in your ears. They come through your phone, your television, your group chats, your feeds. They speak with conviction. They speak with…
UnderthrowWe Are Living in an Invisible Debtor’s Prison
Support and subscribe at Underthrow.org. H.L. Mencken said it best: “Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.” The old satirist wasn’t…
UnderthrowSeven Vices Rotting Civilization from Within
Subscribe and Support: Underthrow.org When it comes to generating content, the producer usually has to make a tradeoff. Staying on top of trends in the news…
Underthrow7 Virtues We Should All Practice Right Now
Subscribe and support at Underthrow.org When we put together this week’s video, I had the next generation in mind. The message fits nicely with the launch of…
UnderthrowThe Freedom Lover's Dilemma
You love freedom. You respect the rule of law. But over the years, the political class has eroded your freedom and enacted laws that are at odds with these…
UnderthrowThe Two Most Important Sentences
Subscribe and support at Underthrow.org I don’t care for the term ‘futurist,’ but whatever minor fame I have enjoyed in my life has been due primarily to being…
UnderthrowPermissionless Parallel Polities
Subscribe and Support at Underthrow.org Humans Reorganize: A to B Game A vs. Game B is the conceptual heart of the second half. Game A is our current operating…
UnderthrowConscious Machines, Cyborgs, and Existential Risk
Subscribe and Support: Underthrow.org This week’s guest is Jim Rutt — technology veteran, former CEO of Network Solutions, longtime board chairman of the Santa…
UnderthrowThe Economy, the Fed, and the Coming AI Renaissance
Subscribe and support us at Underthrow.org Economist and commentator Peter St Onge joins host Max Borders for a wide-ranging conversation covering the current…
UnderthrowBroken People Shouldn't Try to Fix the World
Subscribe and Support: UNDERTHROW.org What does it actually take to become a mature, resilient, self-aware human being—and why does it matter so much right…
UnderthrowThe Immigration Wedge: Soros is a Genius
Subscribe and support Underthrow.org Editor’s Note: At root, I am committed to a doctrine of Respect for Persons. To the extent that we must live with a…
UnderthrowPeace Propaganda: The Power of Story
Underthrow.org: Subscribe and support!In today’s episode, Max sits down with screenwriter and co-founder of The Story Incubator, Erin O’Connor, for a…
UnderthrowBurn Down the Fed?
Garrett Baldwin writes at “Me and the Money Printer” on Substack, where he analyzes liquidity flows, insider behavior, and the mechanisms of modern finance…
UnderthrowBonus: Surfing the Whirl of Reorientation
The conversation continues with Brian Rivera and Mark McGrath—The Whirl of Reorientation—explaining John Boyd’s OODA Loop framework (Observe, Orient, Decide…
Underthrow"Death to Dictators": Iran, Venezuela, and More
This is a special edition of the Underthrow podcast. Too many things are happening in the world for this episode not to get out to you. —MB Many of our readers…
UnderthrowOODA Loops and Spontaneous Order at Work
Today’s conversation features Brian “Ponch” Rivera (CEO of AGLX Consulting) and Mark “Moose” McGrath, co-authors of The Whirl of Reorientation, discussing how…
UnderthrowAn Open Letter to Gen Z Men
I’ve begun work on a serious project. I’ll be helping to pilot a fellowship society for men ages 18-28. The idea is to help the most promising men find…
UnderthrowBuilding Hong Kong in Honduras
I’m Niklas, the guest on this week’s Underthrow podcast. Max Borders asked me to reach out because he thought this would resonate with you as a reader…
UnderthrowReclaiming our Locus of Control
Ernst Jünger’s Anarch represents a figure of radical inner freedom who maintains sovereignty over himself while outwardly conforming to certain social…
UnderthrowWe've Got to Talk About Healthcare Reform
A lot of my friends won’t talk about healthcare because it’s so complex and thorny. Few understand the system, much less the problems that are worsening in the…
UnderthrowPhilosophy. Technology. Liberation.
Max Borders sits down with Swedish philosopher and techno-seer Alexander Bard to explore the human transformation from industrial capitalism to the digital…
UnderthrowCommon Law Colonialism: A Vision
In this episode of the Underthrow Podcast, host Max Borders interviews Georgetown University law professor John Hasnas, author of Common Law Liberalism. Hasnas…
UnderthrowSocialism: Just Do It
Socialism is back, and it’s hot. It’s the ideology that won’t die. Now, when I say socialism, I’m not talking about capitalism plus a top-heavy welfare state…
UnderthrowThe World's Leading Social Problem
According to this week’s guest, Michael Strong, the institutions meant to serve humanity—particularly academia and public schooling—have become obstacles to…
UnderthrowThe Zone that Would Not Die: Inside Team Próspera
In this week’s episode of Underthrow Podcast, Gabriel Delgado offers a compelling vision for how innovative governance can unlock human flourishing. As…
UnderthrowUnderthrow Podcast: Matt Zwolinski
In a wide-ranging discussion, libertarian philosopher Matt Zwolinski and political theorist Max Borders tackle a fundamental question that has divided the…
UnderthrowUnderthrow Podcast: Aviezer Tucker
Join us for a thought-provoking conversation with philosopher and social scientist Avi Tucker, who explores two opposing ends of the political spectrum: the…
UnderthrowUnderthrow Podcast: with James Harrigan
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