A Renegade's Refuge

The sea has always been a metaphor for freedom – an escape from governments, laws and much else.

This week, the Outlaw Ocean podcast explores the world of libertarian-minded endeavors at sea, where mavericks of all sorts seek to escape the laws of land-bound nation-states.

The podcast takes us a dozen miles off the coast of England to Sealand, a rogue “micronation” on an abandoned British anti-aircraft platform, meant to embody this very freedom. On…