Author: Nathan

Just published in America—why we need a politics that resists the aspirations of “god mode” sysadmins: https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2025/05/14/trump-musk-sysadmin-king-250593

From the Internet Archive’s edition of my old book Thank You, Anarchy.

I’m thrilled to share the release of some of my favorite interviews of my career—the Protocol Oral History Project. It explores wildly diverse kinds of protocols as a form of human governance, from state diplomacy to food in our guts: https://protocol.ecologies.info/

If you’re around Denver on May 1, please join me for a Beautiful Solutions release event featuring two leaders in the Colorado solidarity economy—hosted at the incomparable MATTER bookshop: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launch-for-beautiful-solutions-a-toolbox-for-liberation-tickets-1316548374629

For Earth Day today, I had the honor of remembering Pope Francis on Democracy Now, recalling how first reading his Laudato Si’ brought me to tears and how he saw social movements as a site of revelation: https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/22/pope_francis_vatican_climate_crisis

With Pope Francis’s passing, I’m reflecting on some of the ways he has been guiding my thinking over the years. On ecology and cooperativism: https://osf.io/jhrmd On Catholic economic thought: https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/how-pope-francis-is-reviving-radical-catholic-economics/ On borders: https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2020/03/05/catholic-case-open-borders On “gender ideology”: https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2023/11/16/gender-ideology-catholic-246515 Pray for us.

Calling all media-makers working at the intersection of religion and social change! Apply for a $25,000 residency to be part of our Center for Media, Religion, and Culture for the next academic year: https://www.colorado.edu/cmrc/2025/04/07/open-call-counter-media-residency

I’m thrilled to announce that we’ll be doing a Beautiful Solutions launch event in Denver on May Day at the great Black-owned bookstore Shop at Matter—find the discount code in the text: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launch-for-beautiful-solutions-a-toolbox-for-liberation-tickets-1316548374629

I’m grateful to be back on the Reimagining the Internet podcast with Ethan Zuckerman to talk about the prospects and challenges of open social media: https://publicinfrastructure.org/podcast/110-nathan-schneider-governable-spaces/