Thank you for considering submitting your work to SpeakFreely! We’re always eager to collaborate with creative minds and thoughtful writers who share our passion for promoting a free society. Below are the guidelines to ensure a smooth submission process:
We publish articles on a wide range of subjects within the realms of politics, technology, culture, and economics. Some submissions are published in our online blog, some in our physical print magazine, and some in both. All submissions have to be in English.
Worldview
SpeakFreely articles should be written from a libertarian or classical liberal perspective—generally speaking, we seek articles grounded in beliefs in the sovereignty of the individual, economic freedom, academic freedom, and the right of each person to live their lives as they see fit so long as they do not harm others.
Topics
Articles for SpeakFreely should be factual, logically structured, and written in clear, understandable English. We are not an academic journal, so clarity and accessibility are paramount.
Articles should either identify a problem (and propose a solution) or relate a current pop culture product (e.g. a film, book or TV show) with libertarian philosophy.
Articles with a problem/solution topic might relate to:
- A specific rights violation committed by a government body or authoritative institution
(e.g. ‘State Surveillance in Wales: The dark side of the Online Protection Bill’) - A specific regulatory hurdle that causes problems to freedom and/or prosperity.
(e.g. ‘Locked Out: How new occupational licensing law hurts Ohio’s working class’) - A recent political development that either poses a threat to or provides an opportunity for liberty.
(e.g. Vox: Rise of the far right in Spain?)
Articles that refer to a pop culture product should ensure that the reference is timely and relevant.
(e.g. Unimaginable Worlds: Unraveling the Libertarian Message in ‘Alien: Romulus’)
Articles should not be too vague or abstract in their chosen themes and topics; for example, the topics below are too broad:
- The History of Free Speech
- The Importance of Free Trade
- Why Liberty Matters
Instead, please relate your article to a specific event, bill, law, legislation, rights violation, pop culture product, etc.
Interviews
If you are interested in conducting an interview for SpeakFreely, please email us at submissions@wespeakfreely.org to see whether we are interested in an interview with the person you have in mind. If we’re interested, we will reach out to discuss the matter further.
Exclusivity
All submissions must be exclusive to SpeakFreely. If an article has been published elsewhere in any form, we are not interested in receiving it as a submission.
Article Length and citations
Articles should be between 800 and 1500 words in length. Sources that you would like to cite should be hyperlinked in the body of the text. Please note that you should include a source for any claims that you make.
Submission Format
To send us a submission, kindly send an email to submissions@wespeakfreely.org with the subject line “Submission: Title of article”. Include the link to your article, a one or two-sentence summary of your article and a short bio in the body. Submissions should be shared as Google Docs, in 14-point Times New Roman font.
You may draft the document in another application, such as Microsoft Word, and upload it to Google Docs. Copying and pasting is not recommended, as this generally causes formatting issues. PDFs will not be accepted.
Please note that we do not offer monetary compensation for the articles we publish. We are looking forward to your submissions.
Pieces we would like to commission:
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 may be the archexample of 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.