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"Religions have brought down empires before. Networks have reshaped the world before. Sovereign networks native to the internet could someday cause the Westphalian order of metagovernance to unravel. But what would they replace it with? What kinds of evolutionary paths do network

Just published in America Magazine—we need a politics that resists the aspirations of "god mode" sysadmins: americamagazine.org/politics-socie…

19th-century Catholic teachings, 21st-century tech: How concerns about AI guided Pope Leo’s choice of name theconversation.com/19th-century-c… Or, how ideas the last Gilded Age can fix the current one.

Just out from the Stanford Social Innovation Review —my essay on Sarah Schulman's book on solidarity. Why that word matters so desperately right now, and why it is not the same as allyship: ssir.org/books/reviews/…

Last week, I was granted tenure by my university. This moment, combined with the terrorist attack in Boulder, has had me thinking about the limits of what is unspeakable today, especially around the word “antisemitism.” nathanschneider.info/2025/06/antise…

What could enable economic democracy at scale? At the Democracy Policy Network, Júlia Martins Rodrigues and I have a new report on lessons for state-level policy, based on experience from Colorado to Brazil: democracypolicy.network/agenda/open-co…

Adina Glickstein was drawn to Urbit’s promises of decentralization and freedom. But she found it was something very different in reality. compactmag.com/article/the-ri…

Stoked to welcome Nathan Schneider and cstreet.eth July 15 for a special FW3 fireside: Gods in the Machine, Commons in the Soil. Academics, builders and mile-high myth-makers welcome! 🤖🌱 lu.ma/godmachine

For those interested in tooling for online self-governance, I can't recommend enough this post-mortem on the brilliant Ize project by Tyler Sullberg: tysullberg.substack.com/p/collective-a…

The Works of Mercy and the Works of War, by Rita Corbin (1930-2011).

The Grant Innovation Lab (GIL) at Metagov is planning a virtual grant conference we're calling the 2025 Grant Summit in mid-Aug (date TBD). 1 day for grantees and 1 for grant operators. We want to hear from y'all - what topics are you most excited to hear about and

Great thread introducing the idea of Exit to Community!

Article of E2C week is this roadmap on how to E2C from the archives; written in 2021 by Morshed Mannan| মোর্শেদ মান্নান & Nathan Schneider it's remains highly relevant. "The platform economy presents diminishing possibilities of “exit” as a realistic option for participants, while also offering little

2019: "people should use web3 to build platforms that are owned by their users" -Nathan Schneider [6 years later]

RIP Andrea Gibson, a brilliant poet

"Father James Martin and ProfB on the problem with the Prosperity Gospel." Now at America Magazine americamagazine.org/faith/2025/07/…

What happens when online communities are run as cooperatives, not corporations? Following last week’s “How to E2C,” this week’s article explores Social.coop and The Platform - two communities actively translating Exit to Community into real-world practice. Tara Merk

This is the parish in Gaza that Pope Francis would call every night.

The latest interview in the Protocol Oral History Project is up: Josie Zayner on biohacking: protocol.ecologies.info/interviews/zay…

The story most expect of a PhD, a founder, a Smithsonian featured inventor, isn't the one Ive lived Mine has scars & blood in the margins I was molded by chaos not legacy Instead of a Thiel Fellowship I got handcuffed The history of me, a transcript, with Nathan Schneider Link below