Interplanetary Liberty: Building Free Societies in the Cosmos

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On the Moon or Mars, where even the oxygen you breathe is made in a manufacturing process controlled by someone else, can you be free? In Interplanetary Liberty: Building Free Societies in the Cosmos, Charles S. Cockell argues that beyond Earth, space is especially tyranny-prone. Yet rather than consign humanity to a dim future of extraterrestrial despotisms, he suggests that the construction of free societies is possible using uniquely blended and reformulated classical liberal ideas for the space frontier. Considering politics, science, engineering, art, education, prisons, and other facets of society, this book lays out the general ethos and culture around which settlements might be constructed to secure the establishment and flourishing of freedom in the cosmos. Cover Frontispiece Titlepage Copyright Preface Acknowledgements Contents 1 Liberty on the space frontier 2 The causes of extraterrestrial tyranny 3 Building free societies in the cosmos 4 Dissent and welfare 5 The development of science and liberty 6 Engineering liberty 7 Art and liberty 8 Educating the free citizen 9 Justice and criminality in the free society 10 A free cosmos Notes Works cited Index