Timothy Allen talks with Pavol Lupták. Pavol is someone who I’ve been trying to talk to for quite a while… so many people have mentioned his name to me but he had thus far proved to be a pretty elusive guy on account of the fact that he is (amongst other things) a perpetual traveller. Fortunately for me I bumped into him at BTC Prague where his company Liberation Travel had a stand next to the Free Cities Bureau, and I managed to sit down with him for a couple of hours to delve a bit deeper into...
Sep 15, 2023•1 hr 55 min
Timothy Allen talks with Kosta Korenkov & Albina Tokarchuk. This week's show comes from Montelibero which is a fascinating project that resides firmly within the ‘intentional community’ band of the Free Cities spectrum. For the most part, comprised of Russian libertarians, Montelibero has a tight knit community with land and buildings in Montenegro as well as its own currency and decentralised governance system. If you want to take a deeper dive into the project you can check out our free co...
Sep 08, 2023•1 hr 23 min
Timothy Allen talks with Niko Laamanen. This week it's another dispatch from my recent visit to BTC Prague. My guest is Niko Laamanen, a Finnish gentleman who left an unfulfilling life as a construction engineer to start a publishing house specialising in the dissemination of content promoting ideas of freedom and liberty in all its myriad forms, or in Niko’s own words, “Stuff you don’t really learn at school but maybe you should.” Konsensus Network, as it is called, is a project that was born o...
Sep 01, 2023•1 hr 22 min
Timothy Allen talks with Casey Given. Casey is the president and executive director of ‘Young Voices’ which is a non profit agency that aims to cultivate the next generation of libertarian thought leaders in policy, journalism, and academia, or as Casey himself describes it, "A talent agency for heterodox thinkers". Casey has an interesting connection with the Free Cities movement through his undergrad student days and UC Berkley where he hosted a number of prominent seasteaders at the universit...
Aug 25, 2023•1 hr 22 min
Timothy Allen talks with Rahim Taghizadegan. Today on the pod I have for you a very interesting conversation I had at BTC Prague with the Free Cities Foundation’s chief economist Rahim Taghizadegan. Rahim is an Austrian economist who is actually from Austria, which was a first for me, but he is also a physicist (specialization in nuclear physics and complex systems), philosopher, investor and entrepreneur who has written more than a dozen books. In this conversation we begin by investigating the...
Aug 18, 2023•1 hr 36 min
Timothy Allen talks with Raphaël Lima. Today we have a conversation with one of our FCF esteemed ambassadors by the name of Raphael Lima. Raphael is what I would call a Libertarian Influencer. In his home country of Brazil, his daily youtube show “Ideias Radicais” has over 650k subscribers. He is also the founder of both the Free Market Institute in Brazil and settee.io which is a company that in their own words 'helps our customers to live and do business without borders’… in other words they h...
Aug 11, 2023•1 hr 54 min
Timothy Allen talks with Andreas Hellmann. Today we’re back in Lisbon for a brief conversation I had with Andreas Hellman who I managed to intercept just before he went on stage at LibertyCon. Andreas is the director of outreach, tax and regulatory policy at Tholos Foundation which is the international arm of Americans for Tax Reform. As a passionate advocate for the free market Andreas speaks critically of the workings of big government and its tax policies. We discuss questions such as: Where ...
Aug 04, 2023•52 min
Timothy Allen talks with Titus Gebel. I’m back this week with Titus Gebel for another conversation and the subject of our discussion this time is Medieval City-States. Titus is of course very knowledgable about governance models from this time in history and we spend our time exploring the rise and fall of free imperial city models and what it might have been like to live within such a system as well as discussing what, if any, lessons we may be able to learn from these historical Free Cities in...
Jul 28, 2023•1 hr 3 min
Timothy Allen talks with Pierre Corbin. Pierre is a film director and co-founder of the world's first Bitcoin film festival. This conversation with Pierre is a deep dive into his latest film 'The Great Reset and the Rise of Bitcoin' which reflects his ideas and observations of the current macro economic situation that we all find ourselves in. Some of the many subjects touched upon in this episode include: The gold standard, Venetian war bonds, Ming Dynasty hyperinflation, debt cycles, social ne...
Jul 21, 2023•2 hr 3 min
Timothy Allen talks with Titus Gebel. It's another of my discussions from Montenegro again this week and this time it’s part one of two conversations I had with none other than the founder and president of the Free Cities Foundation himself, Titus Gebel. Now, since most of you will know who Titus is I will keep this intro brief. Obviously he has done many interviews before so I tried my best to keep this conversation away from the usual Free Private Cities talking points and delve a little deepe...
Jul 14, 2023•1 hr 51 min
Timothy Allen talks with David Friedman. Today's guest needs no introduction… He is an esteemed economist, legal scholar and libertarian thinker who has for many, redefined their understanding of individual liberty and the dynamics of human society. But did you know he was also a connoisseur of medieval cooking? Well, you’re about to find our as I sit down for an hour with David Friedman. As you would expect our conversation makes many twists and turns and we cover a fair bit of ground. From the...
Jul 07, 2023•56 min
Timothy Allen talks with Andreas Baumgartner. We’re back in Montenegro again this week with a conversation I recorded at the so-called pop up city of Zuzalu. I’m talking with a gentleman who has very deep ties to the Free Cities movement, working as he does in the economic development space. His name is Andreas Baumgartner and he has spent the last 25 years working in the political and legal side of the space with the likes of the Metis Institute, Tipolis and Praxis to name but a few. Andreas ha...
Jun 30, 2023•1 hr 9 min
Timothy Allen talks with Thomas Walker-Werth. Today’s show was one of my favourite interviews from our recent trip to LibertyCon in Lisbon. Thomas is an associate editor at The Objective Standard, and as a former town planner in the UK he has much to say about the designing and organising of Free Cities. In this conversation, we take a deep dive into the reality of what its actually like planning towns as well as making some predictions about the prospect of designing places to live in outer spa...
Jun 23, 2023•2 hr 2 min
Timothy Allen talks with Knut Svanholm. Knut is a former sea captain turned Bitcoin author/philosopher. He’s written a number of well known Bitcoin books including 'Sovereignty & Independence', 'Everything Divided by 21 Million' and his latest work: 'Praxeology: The invisible hand that feeds you'. This is a pretty long and meandering conversation and there is a fair amount of thinking out loud going on… so do bear with us. Subjects covered include, Bitcoin, Praxeology, human action, governan...
Jun 16, 2023•3 hr 50 min
Timothy Allen talks with Montelibero community member Jose Birkin. This conversation was my first in Montenegro within the Montelibero community. Montelibero is an intentional community of mostly Russian speaking libertarians that appears in our free communities directory . Myself and Peter Young traveled there last month on a fact finding mission to see what kind of progress is being made in their quest to become 'a role model of liberty in practice in Montenegro'. Due to it’s decentralised nat...
Jun 09, 2023•2 hr 53 min
Timothy Allen talks with Marek Tatała. Marek is the VP of the Economic Freedom Foundation which is a Polish grant giving organisation in a similar vein to Atlas Network. Alongside funding relevant projects they also work on advocacy and political lobbying, believing in any way that bridges can be built to help integrate free market and classical liberal ideals into general society. Our discussion revolves around the work of the foundation and we touch upon many related subjects including the dec...
Jun 02, 2023•1 hr 6 min
Timothy Allen talks with Federico Fernández. Federico is the CEO of ‘Somos Innovación’ also known as ‘We Are Innovation', which is a network of more than 30 think tanks based in Latin America and Europe dedicated to promoting progress through innovation, the adoption of new technologies and human creativity. Unsurprisingly, the main focus of our discussion is innovation in all of its many incarnations. We examine the eternal struggle between regulation and innovation and dive into some of Feder...
May 26, 2023•1 hr 4 min
Timothy Allen talks with Gabriel Delgado. Gabriel is the co-founder and CDO of Próspera. Próspera is a private city and special economic zone on the island of Roatán in the Central American state of Honduras . The city is an autonomous zone with private government and its own fiscal, regulatory and legal architecture A couple of weeks ago whilst I was in Montenegro attending the New Cities and Network States weekend at Zuzalu, Timothy Allen got to sit down with one of the founders of Próspera, G...
May 19, 2023•53 min
Timothy Allen talks with Jacek Spendel. Jacek is the President of Liberty international which is the oldest organisation promoting libertarianism worldwide. In this conversation we discuss the work of Liberty International as well as Jacek’s views on libertarianism, travel, free cities and the future of the free world.Jacek has an optimistic view of the world, something that we whole heartedly endorse here at the free cities foundation. Its incredibly encouraging to hear from so many different p...
May 12, 2023•52 min
Timothy Allen talks with Matt & Terry Kibbe. Matt and Terry Kibbe are the founders of ‘Free the People' which is an educational foundation charged with the mission of tuning in the next generation to the core values of personal liberty and peaceful cooperation. I met them both in Lisbon where they were speaking at LibertyCon and were it not for both of our incredibly strict schedules over that weekend I would have happily spoken to them for much longer since they have such a wealth of experi...
May 05, 2023•52 min
Timothy Allen talks with Kris Kaleta. Kris Kaleta is a digital nomad and technologist who is doing some absolutely fascinating post-graduate research on virtual Libertarian communities. Our conversation touches on many aspects of his work from digital politics to emerging governance models and the contemporary phenomenon of online communities manifesting in real life. Kris has been a keen observer of the Free Cities movement since the start so he has a lot of great insights into the future of wh...
Apr 28, 2023•2 hr 25 min
Timothy Allen talks with Mikołaj Pisarski. Mikołaj is the former president of KoLiber Association and the current president of the Instytut Misesa, Poland’s Mises Institute. In this conversation we discover Mikolaj’s love for working with young people and his passion for teaching Libertarian principals and the ideas of Austrian economics. We also talk about Polish history, personal responsibility, parenting strategies and the problems of democracy, as well as a little Anarcho-capitalism and tech...
Apr 21, 2023•1 hr 33 min
Timothy Allen talks with Nikos Sotirakopoulos Nikos is an author, senior lecturer in social sciences at York St John Universtity and director of the European Ayn Rand Institute. Now, i have a problem with this conversation… namely that it is too short… Nikos is a busy man and I had a strict hour with him in Warsaw. However we managed to get through a fair bit in that hour…. brutalist architecture , collectivism vs individualism, the culture wars, Ayn Rand's philosophy, martial arts, what Jordan ...
Apr 14, 2023•1 hr 8 min
Today we’re beginning our series of interviews recorded in Poland and we’re starting out with a conversation I had with Tom Palmer during the Weekend Kapitalizmu conference. Tom is an American Libertarian author and theorist, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the executive vice president for international programs at Atlas Network. Just prior to recording this episode, Peter Young, The Free Cities Foundation’s CEO was chatting with myself and Tom in our makeshift studio in Warsaw and it ...
Apr 07, 2023•1 hr 26 min
Today I'm talking with Martin Leskovjan. Martin is a member of the subversive Czech art collective Ztohoven and co-founder of Paralelni Polis which is one of the collective’s better known projects, also the site of the world’s first bitcoin-only cafe. This is a conversation about art and the power to influence. Ztohoven are a band of merry pranksters with a desire to provoke emotion and open minds and I talk with Martin about many of their projects and whether it is possible to create parallel s...
Mar 31, 2023•1 hr 52 min
This is Episode 18 of the Free Cities Podcast, and it is also the penultimate show from the series of conversations I had in Prague. I am in Warsaw for the next seven days, recording interviews that you will be listening to over the next two months on the Free Cities Podcast. I can report that I am only three episodes in, and I have to say that my mind has been blown already on two different occasions, so I am really looking forward to sharing these conversations with you over the coming weeks. ...
Mar 24, 2023•1 hr 46 min
Today I’m talking with Max Hillebrand. Max is a well-known privacy and Bitcoin activist who is also the CEO of zkSNACKs, the company who’s flagship product is the privacy oriented Bitcoin wallet, Wasabi Wallet. Max spoke in depth about privacy and self-sovereignty at last year’s Liberty in our Lifetime conference and this conversation follows in a similar vein. We begin with a few stories from his time working at Deutsche Bank but the conversation quickly moves on to open source software, Bitcoi...
Mar 17, 2023•2 hr 55 min
Today we have another dispatch from the Czech Republic which is also another refugee story of sorts, in a similar vein to my interview with Tom & Emily Lahdenranta who were the family of 5 who left Canada due to their government's pandemic policies. In this episode I’m talking with Caroline King. Caroline is a Swedish mother of 4 living with her husband and family in Prague. They had to leave Sweden in order to be able to homeschool their children on account of the Swedish governments restri...
Mar 10, 2023•1 hr 34 min
On this week's podcast I am talking with Přemysl Bosák. Přemysl is the founder of a new dispute resolution platform called Disputio which is an obvious fit with people like myself who would prefer to bear the responsibility of resolving their own disputes. In this conversation we discuss the platform and how it works as well as a little about the history and evolution of law including bottom up solutions to legal problems. Přemysl is an anarcho-capitalist so we discuss anarchy and voluntarism as...
Mar 03, 2023•1 hr 17 min
In part 4 of our series of conversations recorded in Prague I am talking with Jan Mošovský. Jan is the Director of Research at the Liberalni Institute , a Czech think tank championing the ideas of classical liberalism. He is also the European programs Manager at Students for Liberty , the largest libertarian students organisation in the world. I begin this conversation by asking Jan about something he wrote in an article… "Every good story is ultimately libertarian in nature" An interesting obse...
Feb 24, 2023•1 hr 31 min
