For-Profit Cities vs. ACS

By Jonathan

To be clear, we’re not opposed to for-profit enterprises or to capitalism as a principle. We believe that ACS will become the crowning glory of capitalism, eventually completing it into what Adam Smith envisioned as a world of “universal opulence”, where people continue to play capitalist games as they may please, consistent with a given…

Why not make everyone a Citizen?

By Jonathan

Some critics of a Celebration Society believe that everyone should be a Citizen. In my view, that diminishes the importance of the title and office. In modern democracies, citizenship is a birthright. As such, its powers and responsibilities often remain little known or taken for granted. While a society can force people to learn these–and,…

Review: Misgivings Addressed and Answered

By Jonathan

The research and writing of this book has obviously been a massive undertaking. Not so obviously, it is incredibly up to date with current technological advances. I started to read it as just another attempt at idealizing a Utopian Society. I had all the usual misgivings about his glossing over of inconvenient truths, or leaving…