Via Andrew Sullivan, Laura Freschi casts a dubious eye on the notion of charter cities:
These ideas share an overly-optimistic belief in a neutral, benevolent international community and its power to peacefully oversee imposed changes. All are tone-deaf to the very real degree of nationalism that does exist in basically all countries by now, regardless of whether they were misbegotten colonial creations or not. They also violate sovereignty as conventionally defined, which may be good or bad but is sure to provoke a nationalist reaction.
Matt Yglesias is skeptical, but not necessarily against the idea.
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