Non Serviam Podcast #75 - The Border Everywhere with Nathan Goodman

April 18
1h 35m

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Episode Description

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

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