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The Governance Paradox of Real Madrid

by Giorgi Kajaia January 30, 2026

Titus Gebel: Rethinking Governance Through Free Private Cities

Urgent International Action Is Needed on the Islamic Republic of Iran

Georgia’s Price Controls Are a Step Back Toward a Planned Economy

Can AI Art be Good Art?

Field Notes on Making Agro‑Pastoral Peace Possible

The Free State of Cospaia  – Chapter 2: Origin

I’d Never Date a Man Who Paid for Sex. I Still Oppose...

by Anna Shnaidman January 25, 2026

Panicked Europe Reverts to Conscription, Sacrificing Teenagers for a Mirage of Security

The EU Council’s Historic Moment on the IRGC

To Owe or to Own?

Building Africa’s Climate-Resilient Food System

Terrors and Tremors: On the Narcosis of Law, or on Venezuela

Missouri Amendment 7 Violates The State’s Own Constitution

Politics

Urgent International Action Is Needed on the Islamic Republic of Iran

by Giorgi Kajaia January 28, 2026

Georgia’s Price Controls Are a Step Back Toward a Planned Economy

by Ilia Zhuzhunashvili January 27, 2026

Panicked Europe Reverts to Conscription, Sacrificing Teenagers for a Mirage of Security

by Ian Golan January 23, 2026

To Owe or to Own?

by Nicolas S. Straehl January 22, 2026

Economics

Titus Gebel: Rethinking Governance Through Free Private Cities

by Tania Rak January 30, 2026

The EU Council’s Historic Moment on the IRGC

by Sepehr Hadaeghnia January 23, 2026

80th Anniversary of Economics in One Lesson

by Oscar Gill-Lewis December 25, 2025

One Must Choose Between Being an Economist or a Socialist

by Serge Schweitzer December 15, 2025

Culture

The Governance Paradox of Real Madrid

by Giorgi Kajaia January 30, 2026
by Giorgi Kajaia January 30, 2026

The Free State of Cospaia  – Chapter 2: Origin

by Nicolas S. Straehl January 25, 2026
by Nicolas S. Straehl January 25, 2026

Resurrection of Punk: How Capitalism Saved Rebellion

by Mariam Nemsadze January 15, 2026
by Mariam Nemsadze January 15, 2026

Merry Christmas! Here is what SpeakFreely asked from Santa

by Ian Golan December 23, 2025
by Ian Golan December 23, 2025

EU Elections

Portugal’s Presidential Sprint: A Liberal Breaks Into The Front Pack

by Tomás Lucena Barreiro January 15, 2026
by Tomás Lucena Barreiro January 15, 2026

The Power of Unpopularity: A Lesson from Hungary About Freedom

by Kristóf Ábel Tarnay December 24, 2025
by Kristóf Ábel Tarnay December 24, 2025

Spain’s New University Decree: More Regulation, Less Excellence

by Nicolás Sánchez October 28, 2025
by Nicolás Sánchez October 28, 2025

A Corrosive Legacy in Bosnia and Herzegovina

by Tea Kljajić September 19, 2025
by Tea Kljajić September 19, 2025

Archive

  • Freedom of Movement

    Control Without Work Is Not Control At All

    by Abdelghani Bensi January 19, 2026
    January 19, 2026

    As the year 2026 begins, Germany is already starting to experience the consequences of the increasingly restrictive asylum policies it pursued …

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  • PoliticsSociety

    Public Party Funding Won’t Fix Malta’s Political Capture

    by David Briguglio Brown January 18, 2026
    January 18, 2026

    Who pays for politics in Malta? And what do they get in return? This is the question driving Malta’s party funding …

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  • Conscription

    Conscription in Brazil: To serve by choice or to obey by force?

    by Lucca Mazolini January 16, 2026
    January 16, 2026

    We live in an era marked by the dangerous belief that the State holds legitimacy to appropriate the time, energy, and …

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  • Culture

    Resurrection of Punk: How Capitalism Saved Rebellion

    by Mariam Nemsadze January 15, 2026
    January 15, 2026

    “Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated? Good night” —says Johnny Rotten in a thick working-class North London accent as he …

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    Portugal’s Presidential Sprint: A Liberal Breaks Into The Front Pack

    by Tomás Lucena Barreiro January 15, 2026
    January 15, 2026

    With days to go until Portugal’s presidential election on 18 January, the race is unusually open. João Cotrim de Figueiredo, the …

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  • Society

    A ‘Working-Class Civil Service’?

    by Adrian Tam January 12, 2026
    January 12, 2026

    A recent change in the Civil Service’s internship scheme to restrict entry to exclusively admit ‘working-class’ applicants has reignited my interest …

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  • Society

    2025 at SpeakFreely: Our Top Picks (and Your Next Rabbit Hole)

    by Ogechukwu Egwuatu January 9, 2026
    January 9, 2026

    It’s a brand new year, and in what is now a new SpeakFreely tradition, we’re taking a moment to share our …

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  • Politics

    The Kosovo–Serbia Stalemate Is Costing Both Sides Their Freedom

    by Zhyldyz Sultangazieva January 9, 2026
    January 9, 2026

    More than fifteen years after declaring independence, Kosovo remains caught in a dialogue that promises normalization but repeatedly produces deadlock. This …

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  • Politics

    Joe Goldberg and the Moral Logic of U.S. Foreign Policy

    by Bisher Alshehab January 7, 2026
    January 7, 2026

    You, on the surface, appear to be a story of a man’s intense infatuation with women, but its deeper themes revolve …

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  • Society

    Can Individuals Solve Climate Change?

    by Ilia Zhuzhunashvili January 7, 2026
    January 7, 2026

    When climate activists march through city streets demanding action, their signs typically call for one thing: government intervention, in the form …

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  • Politics

    Congrats to Venezuelans. My condolences to left-wing humanitarian ideologues

    by Sergio Castilla Santos January 5, 2026
    January 5, 2026

    Congratulations to the Venezuelan nation, which yesterday spontaneously took to the streets to celebrate, with concern, yes, but with irrepressible joy, …

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  • Politics

    Leviathan Rising

    by Oscar Gill-Lewis January 2, 2026
    January 2, 2026

    The event started out with a reflection and minute’s silence for Aldina Jahić, held by Anne Struffmann. Then the event kicked …

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  • Politics

    Migration in the Crossfire of U.S. Power Politics

    by Lucas Guimarães January 2, 2026
    January 2, 2026

    On January 20 2025, President Donald Trump reiterated a familiar theme that America was again under attack. On his first day …

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  • Politics

    Disarmed and Vulnerable: The Case Against Campus Gun Bans

    by Gabor Nemeth January 2, 2026
    January 2, 2026

    On a warm September afternoon at Utah Valley University, thousands of students and community members packed into an outdoor courtyard to …

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