We often come up with ideas which we don’t have the time to write about in-house. If you’re keen to write for SpeakFreely, but don’t have a clear idea of what your article will be about, here are pieces that we’re hoping someone will write for us:
Fallout and the Hollywood Politics of Blaming Capitalism. Fallout is the hottest new series of the year, but the adaptation frames the apocalypse as an Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez-style morality play: greedy corporations engineer the catastrophe with premeditation. That can’t possibly be right. Season 2 doubles down by expanding the world and introducing newly emergent societies with a whole range of social orders, which makes the politics even more interesting. Is the show actually attacking markets and profit or is it really attacking state–corporate collusion? What does the series get wrong? And if libertarianism ever won, would we all be living in a Fallout Shelter anyway?
The politics of Clarkson’s Farm: bureaucracy, subsidies, and the cult of farming. We’re commissioning a piece that uses Clarkson’s Farm to ask why farming remains both heavily subsidised and treated as politically sacred. We want the author to explore the show’s central tension: a real struggle against bureaucracy that can stifle farming, alongside a parallel desire for privileges, subsidies, and welfare on a scale few other people in the country could ever dream of.
Panama: the intervention anti-interventionists don’t like talking about. Libertarians usually treat “non-intervention” as a default rule. There are some good reasons: mission creep, blowback, lies, and civilian harm. But Panama is an awkward counterexample. We’re looking for pitches that explore this case as a justified, effective intervention, and what criteria it suggests for when military intervention can be the least-bad option.
Evictionism: a libertarian “third way” on abortion. Walter Blocke’s evictionism tries to reconcile bodily autonomy with a strict non-aggression view. We’re looking for pitches that steelman the framework and show how it works out in practice (viability, medical norms, and law in Europe). In particular, we want clear, accessible overviews of this underexplored position and where its hardest edge-cases sit.
Populism in The Boys: a brutally accurate warning. The Boys stands as one of the finest achievements in modern political satire. We’re looking for pitches that lean into the show’s insight: what it nails about demagoguery, conspiracy thinking, and institutional cowardice.
Ozempic and GLP 1s in the EU: the case for deregulating access. In much of Europe, GLP-1 drugs are still scarce or tightly rationed goods. Patients face uneven reimbursement, restrictive prescribing, and shortages that push them toward grey markets and counterfeits. We want pitches that make a clear deregulatory case: what rules or practices in the EU are artificially constraining supply and access, and what a freer, safer market would look like.
Unleash Lab Grown Meat in the EU. The EU already has a clear, central route for new foods via EFSA’s Novel Foods assessment, so the state’s job should be boring: evaluate safety, authorise, and then get out of the way. Yet Europe’s first cultivated-meat dossier only landed in mid-2024 (Gourmey’s cultivated duck for foie gras), while Italy and Hungary governments have tried to slam the door with pre-emptive bans. We’re looking for pieces that make the libertarian abundance case: stop using “precaution” as a veto, block protectionist national bans, and move to a predictable “approve-if-safe” regime that lets private innovation revolutionize the food landscape.
We are also always looking for pieces that are adjacent to any of our policy pillars.
