Nathan Goodman
@nathanpgoodman.bsky.social
Economist who studies institutions, political economy, polycentricity, defense & peace economics, and border militarization.
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What does open borders mean? It means the individual has presumptive freedom of movement. You can cross borders without suspicion or harassment. If you choose, there is a clear, easy path to citizenship. That's it. Open borders treats everyone like a potential fellow citizen, like a human being. /🧵
January 28, 2026 at 5:15 PM
What does open borders mean? It means the individual has presumptive freedom of movement. You can cross borders without suspicion or harassment. If you choose, there is a clear, easy path to citizenship. That's it. Open borders treats everyone like a potential fellow citizen, like a human being. /🧵
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#OpenBorders is the Good Samaritan. It's the priests you see putting their bodies between refugees and jackbooted thugs.
Open borders is setting the prisoners free.
Open borders is setting the prisoners free.
February 11, 2026 at 5:02 PM
#OpenBorders is the Good Samaritan. It's the priests you see putting their bodies between refugees and jackbooted thugs.
Open borders is setting the prisoners free.
Open borders is setting the prisoners free.
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#OpenBorders is "Workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains" AND it's the gleeful destruction of the Berlin Wall.
February 11, 2026 at 4:54 PM
#OpenBorders is "Workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains" AND it's the gleeful destruction of the Berlin Wall.
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#OpenBorders is the Schengen Area. It's trade and peace, the abolition of war and the forging of friendships out of centuries of war. It's the quiet miracle of undefended borders we take for granted because they're so obvious and normal.
February 11, 2026 at 4:50 PM
#OpenBorders is the Schengen Area. It's trade and peace, the abolition of war and the forging of friendships out of centuries of war. It's the quiet miracle of undefended borders we take for granted because they're so obvious and normal.
I'm very sympathetic to your argument here.
Here's a question that it raises for me, however: Are there some conditions under which we should associate with people who are not admirable, in order to try to push them to do better?
Here's a question that it raises for me, however: Are there some conditions under which we should associate with people who are not admirable, in order to try to push them to do better?
February 10, 2026 at 2:22 AM
I'm very sympathetic to your argument here.
Here's a question that it raises for me, however: Are there some conditions under which we should associate with people who are not admirable, in order to try to push them to do better?
Here's a question that it raises for me, however: Are there some conditions under which we should associate with people who are not admirable, in order to try to push them to do better?
Yes, @ilyasomin.bsky.social has been downright heroic in his work on immigration, his litigation against the Trump administration's abuses of executive power on tariffs, & his efforts to sound the alarm against Trump in libertarian spaces prior to the most recent election.
February 10, 2026 at 1:35 AM
Yes, @ilyasomin.bsky.social has been downright heroic in his work on immigration, his litigation against the Trump administration's abuses of executive power on tariffs, & his efforts to sound the alarm against Trump in libertarian spaces prior to the most recent election.
Yes, agreed. Still a mess, also. But as you say, less of a mess than everyone else. And a mess that's the best hope for freedom, emancipation, self-governance, & egalitarian social relations.
February 10, 2026 at 1:33 AM
Yes, agreed. Still a mess, also. But as you say, less of a mess than everyone else. And a mess that's the best hope for freedom, emancipation, self-governance, & egalitarian social relations.
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I think a bigger part of it is what I wrote about here. Fusionism meant that libertarianism recruited primarily from the political right, and the libertarian community was friendly to right-wing beliefs and values in a way it wasn’t to socially and culturally liberal ones. And that just compounded.
How the Right Distorted Libertarianism - Aaron Ross Powell's Blog
Once rooted in liberalism, libertarianism's detour through the conservative movement has blunted its radical edge and commitment to principle.
www.aaronrosspowell.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:00 PM
I think a bigger part of it is what I wrote about here. Fusionism meant that libertarianism recruited primarily from the political right, and the libertarian community was friendly to right-wing beliefs and values in a way it wasn’t to socially and culturally liberal ones. And that just compounded.
I mean, even anarchists have had fascist creep problems, as you & ARR both point out. The anarchist movement has been better at responding to fascist creep than any other social movement. But even there it was messy and flawed.
February 10, 2026 at 1:29 AM
I mean, even anarchists have had fascist creep problems, as you & ARR both point out. The anarchist movement has been better at responding to fascist creep than any other social movement. But even there it was messy and flawed.