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Nathan Goodman

@nathanpgoodman.bsky.social

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Economist who studies institutions, political economy, polycentricity, defense & peace economics, and border militarization. https://www.nathanpgoodman.com/ https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1Ue5NBMAAAAJ&hl=en

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Nathan Goodman @nathanpgoodman.bsky.social · Nov 12

Much of my work focuses on the militarization of the US-Mexico border.

For instance, this paper examines how that militarization shaped domestic policing: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Border militarization and domestic institutions - Constitutional Political Economy

The objective of this paper is to examine the impact of border policies and the increased militarization of border control practices on the expansion of police powers, the erosion of constitutional co...

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 1d

I have a YouTube channel where you can watch this short video about Trump's murder spree in the Caribbean alongside all my congressional testimony. We recorded the video shortly after the 2nd boat strike... but there have been more already. Like, comment, subscribe
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RUJ...

Trump is ordering people executed

YouTube video by David J. Bier

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 1d

So agents trespassed into a citizen’s home on a fishing expedition and murdered their dog kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

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Spencer Reynolds @sreynolds.bsky.social · 1d

It is impossible—even for those of us who spend a pathological amount of time every day working on CBP, ICE, and DHS—to fully track these agencies’ misdeeds.

Transparency trails years behind, if we are lucky and persistent. Someday, the accounting from this period will be terrible.

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 1d

I keep learning of months old horrors and I follow this stuff very closely. I’m sure the level of brutality and misconduct has not fully reached the public. The population cleansing agents are out of control.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 3d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Digressionsimpressions @nescio13.bsky.social · 1d

Rousseau, Adaptive Preferences, and Social Entrepeneurship
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Shout outs to @erwindekker.bsky.social, @lastpositivist.bsky.social, @serenekhader.bsky.social

Rousseau, Adaptive Preferences, and Social Entrepeneurship

Near the start of The Social Contract (1762), in his criticism of Aristotle, Rousseau (recall) diagnoses the phenomenon of adaptive preferences. What we desire is not just shaped by society, but what ...

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Erwin Dekker @erwindekker.bsky.social · 1d

This week's Substack post discusses the links between Richard Wright's classic Chicago novel, Native Son, and Harold Garfinkel's early (ethnomethodological) studies of the way juries work in Chicago.

Or simply, how institutional racism was understood in the 1940s.

From Native Son to Ethnomethodology

On Richard Wright and Harold Garfinkel

seeinglikechicago.substack.com

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Stanislav Vysotsky @professorstas.bsky.social · 3d

Solidarity with Mark Bray. Purging academia of scholars of antifascism is just the first step in establishing fascist ideological orthodoxy.

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

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El Çid @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social · 1d

The discussion @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social and I had with @jacobtlevy.bsky.social via @liberalcurrents.com was so marvelous and informative; @cato.org agrees as much.

The health of American Democracy was the prime focus, but we got all over - including Trump, authoritarianism, ice cream, and more!

Jacob T. Levy discusses the health of American democracy on the Liberal Currents’ Half the Answer podcast

September 5, 2025

www.cato.org

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Kelly² @anarchakelly.bsky.social · 2d

Folks should head over to @fijanational.bsky.social and give them a follow. They should have way more than they currently do.

If you’re following me you’re probably exactly the type of person who should be on a jury. It’s important to know your rights when it comes to voting your conscience.

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Fully Informed Jury Association @fijanational.bsky.social · 2d

FIJA stands with the #jurynulification activists of Defend Our Juries who've faced repression in the UK for basic free speech

fija.substack.com/p/the-fight-...

The Fight for Free Speech Around Jury Nullification

From the US to the UK, activists with both the Fully Informed Jury Association and Defend Our Juries have routinely faced repression for clearly protected free speech

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 3d

Former USAID official here.

The current Administration has done zero impact analysis to estimate the effects of its obliteration of USAID on deaths around the world.

It just keeps saying "no one has died" as a mesmeric incantation.

The facts, below. 🧵

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 3d

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Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 3d

DEI for me, not for thee.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 5d

ICE abducts people and then immediately moves them around to prevent access to lawyers and habeas corpus petitions. @emmarjanssen.bsky.social has the story on this consistent game being played to frustrate due process.
prospect.org/justice/2025...

How ICE Hides Detainees From Their Lawyers

‘It seems like cruelty is the point,’ one attorney said.

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Fully Informed Jury Association @fijanational.bsky.social · 4d

Tyranny stops when people decide to stop it. #jurynullification

Practically speaking, no government knows any limits to its power, except the endurance of the people.

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William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 4d

Hey everyone! I'm doing a virtual book talk with the lovely folks of @firestorm.coop

You can register here:
firestorm.coop/events/3479-...

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 5d

The White House ordered military occupation of yet another opposition-party-controlled US city.

One of our federal judges blocked this flagrantly illegal perversion of our Constitution. The White House tried to evade the order, activating a different military force.

She has blocked them again.

Lindsay P Cohn @lindsaypcohn.bsky.social · 5d

Folks we are watching the adjudication of some of the most important constitutional issues of federalism, executive discretion, and judicial review since the 19th c

www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Judge issues new broader order barring any National Guard from relocating to Oregon

Judge asked federal government lawyer: 'Do you believe this is an appropriate way to deal with a judge’s order that you disagree with?'

www.oregonlive.com

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Dean Spade @deanspade.bsky.social · 5d

I'll be with @interruptcrim.bsky.social for a conversation about how to advance narratives that undermine authoritarianism and increase solidarity. Join me, @dreanyc123.bsky.social and Lewis Wallen on October 15th, 3pm est! ❤️ ❤️

Fighting Copaganda Under Authoritarianism — Interrupting Criminalization

A discussion of how to advance narratives that undermine authoritarianism and increase solidarity, featuring Interrupting Criminalization's Andrea Ritchie, Abolition Journalism Fellow Lewis Raven Wall...

www.interruptingcriminalization.com

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 5d

As the people who insist otherwise try to burn the country, it's important to affirm that immigrants, from everywhere, are awesome, and America is better the more immigrants we have. You have to be just empty and vapid and unimaginably small to reject that.

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 8d

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team

Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

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Nathan Goodman @nathanpgoodman.bsky.social · 7d

You can also find an earlier draft of my chapter in this SSRN preprint: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

A Radical Liberal Approach to LGBTQ Emancipation

Progress towards freedom for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ) people can largely be attributed to experimentation and entrepr

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Nathan Goodman @nathanpgoodman.bsky.social · 7d

Possibly of interest to @aaronrosspowell.com, one of the few open standard bearers of radical liberal ideas.

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Nathan Goodman @nathanpgoodman.bsky.social · 7d

Read my chapter here: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

A Radical Liberal Approach to LGBTQ Emancipation

Progress towards freedom for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ) people can largely be attributed to experimentation and entrepreneurship within markets and civil society. Liberal institutions of property, contract, consent, and free...

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Nathan Goodman @nathanpgoodman.bsky.social · 7d

Find the book here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Liberal Emancipation

This contributed volume explores the topic of emancipation and economics within the liberal system of thought.

link.springer.com

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Nathan Goodman @nathanpgoodman.bsky.social · 7d

I don't anticipate the terminology I use in the chapter to catch on.

But I hope the core insights do.

Because emancipation matters, and mainline political economy can help us understand current oppression & what proposals for overcoming it are feasible.

7. Conclusion
Regardless of whether the terms I use in the previous section ever catch on within social movements (they likely will not), I hope that this chapter encourages researchers to continue exploring the synergies between mainline economics and radical LGBT politics. Analytical anarchism, as well as the related research program of Elinor and Vincent Ostrom regarding polycentric governance, can be quite fruitful for understanding social movements, mutual aid, and anarchist prefigurative politics. Public choice, particularly the analysis of political capitalism, can be fruitfully applied to understand the systems of state violence and economic privilege that radicals rightly critique. Ultimately, mainline economics offers a powerful lens for understanding our world. Through that understanding, radicals can better understand the feasible paths available for emancipatory social change.

Sometimes this means casting cold water on proposed paths towards emancipation. Attempts to remake the world through centralized economic planning will lead not to emancipation, but to calculational chaos and abuses by the wielders of centralized power. Some nominally democratic or decentralized forms of radical social change may be subject to similar pitfalls. Yet the most radical and anti-authoritarian elements of the movement, namely the anarchists and abolitionists, are prefiguring a better world each day. Rather than attempting to impose liberation from the top-down, they are forging new forms of associational life that enable marginalized people to survive, thrive, and govern themselves in the face of hostile power. The insights of mainline economics can help us understand what sets these distinct radical paths towards liberation apart from one another, as well as why imperfect but promising moves towards emancipation have occurred within liberal democracies. The partial liberalism we see around us enables experimentation, entrepreneurship, coordination, and community. Radical critics offer trenchant critiques of violence and inequity in existing institutions. Yet for a radical change to be truly emancipatory, it should preserve and expand this space for experimentation and entrepreneurship, not constrain or crush it.

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