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  • AI and popes named Leo

    AI and popes named Leo

    On AI and popes named Leo: https://theconversation.com/19th-century-catholic-teachings-21st-century-tech-how-concerns-about-ai-guided-pope-leos-choice-of-name-256645

  • Protocological governance theory paper

    Protocological governance theory paper

    A new paper out—not the easiest going, but an effort to theorize some of the dynamics of governance through protocols, with Johannes Bennke: https://doi.org/10.25819/ubsi/10661

  • Remembering Race Matthews

    Remembering Race Matthews

    My favorite book on the legacy of Pope Leo XIII (the namesake of Leo XIV) is by the Australian politician Race Mathews—who realized that, to understand economic democracy, he had to get a theology degree: https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/jobs-of-our-own Thank you, Race, and RIP: https://www.vic.gov.au/RaceMathews

  • Against “god mode” government

    Against “god mode” government

    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

  • Discarded “Thank You, Anarchy”

    Discarded “Thank You, Anarchy”

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

  • The Protocol Oral History Project is out

    The Protocol Oral History Project is out

    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/

  • May Day at MATTER in Denver

    May Day at MATTER in Denver

    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

  • The battle for American universities is on

    Just out: I argue that if the Trump administration were actually trying to do the things it says it is doing, it is doing it all wrong. https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2025/04/25/higher-ed-trump-dei-woke-250477

  • Honoring Pope Francis on Democracy Now

    Honoring Pope Francis on Democracy Now

    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

  • Thank you, Pope Francis

    Thank you, Pope Francis

    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.