2025 News, by Richard Hammer

Early in 2024 I learned about the Free Cities Foundation. It appears to have a purpose similar to what we were trying to achieve in the Free Nation Foundation: building vision of institutions which make a free nation (or city) possible. Such vision is laid out nicely by the founder of this new Foundation, Titus Gebel, in his book Free Private Cities: Making governments compete for you.

I attended the 2024 annual conference of The Free Cities Foundation and will attend this year's conference, October 31 – November 2, 2025, again in Prague, Czech Republic.

The Free Nation Foundation (FNF) was active during 1993–2001, publishing Formulations quarterly and holding semiannual Forums in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina. After a split in management the Libertarian Nation Foundation continued a few years with similar work. During its time FNF had around 100 paying Members and another 100 who paid only for subscription to Formulations.

As of 2021 this website is maintained by Richard O. Hammer, founder of FNF and its President until 2000.

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The founding prospectus Toward a Free Nation outlines this project.

FNF antechamber with a few additional publications.

In 2014, Richard Hammer started a blog for continuation in the FNF vein.

Here are the webpages of some former Directors of FNF: Richard O. Hammer, Roderick T. Long, Robert Mihaly.