Sentenced to the Future: A Novel of Innocence, Reinvention, and the Machine Age is a work of fiction by John M. Cobin. Set against a near-future landscape reshaped by artificial intelligence, algorithmic compliance systems, and automated justice, the novel follows a protagonist confronting wrongful conviction, institutional indifference, and the search for renewal in a world where machines increasingly stand between the individual and the state.

Why does the price of bread coordinate millions of strangers no one commands? Why do booms turn to busts with such grim regularity? In Austrian Economics: A Primer for the Liberty-Minded Reader, Dr. John M. Cobin distills the Austrian tradition into eight concepts that change how you see money, markets, and the state. Writing for the curious reader rather than the credentialed specialist, Cobin shows how subjective value, marginal thinking, spontaneous order, the role of prices, sound mone...

Defending Your PhD Dissertation is a survival guide for doctoral candidates who suspect their defense will be anything but friendly. Dr. John M. Cobin, who earned his PhD in public policy at George Mason University in 1996 and has spent decades consulting and reviewing graduate work in the United States and Chile, lays out exactly how to prepare for a committee that is skeptical, divided, or openly hostile. This is not a cheerful pep talk. It is a field manual for the worst-case room: anti...

In AI-Augmented Personal Finance, Dr. John M. Cobin brings the rigor of a public-policy economist and the conviction of a sovereign-minded individual to the most practical question liberty-lovers face: how do you protect and grow wealth in an age of currency debasement, surveillance, and political risk? Drawing on a PhD in public policy and decades advising clients across the United States and Chile, Cobin lays out a clear field guide to building resilient personal finances using gold, sou...

When Dr. John M. Cobin defended himself in an act later confirmed by physical and forensic evidence, he could not have imagined that the Chilean justice system would imprison him for more than five years. In Surviving Chilean Justice, the economist and Baptist pastor turns the analytical tools of public choice on his own ordeal, examining how prosecutors, judges, police, and bureaucrats respond to incentives rather than truth. The result is a rare book: at once a harrowing first-person acc...

Bearing the Cross - Book Four: Casablanca (part 1) continues Dr. John M. Cobin's five-volume memoir of his wrongful conviction and the five years he spent in the Chilean prison system. In this fourth volume, the author recounts his transfer to Casablanca prison, documenting the new conditions of confinement, the ongoing legal proceedings, and the deepening prison ministry that would come to define his years of incarceration. Written with the same unflinching, first-person honesty that defi...

Bearing the Cross - Book Two: Valparaíso (part 2) continues Dr. John M. Cobin's five-volume memoir of his wrongful conviction and the five years he spent in the Chilean prison system. In this second volume, the author recounts the ongoing imprisonment in Valparaíso, documenting daily life, relationships with fellow inmates, and the continuing struggle for justice within an unjust system. Written with the same unflinching, first-person honesty that defines the entire series, this book docum...

Bearing the Cross - Book Three: Valparaíso (part 3) and Rancagua continues Dr. John M. Cobin's five-volume memoir of his wrongful conviction and the five years he spent in the Chilean prison system. In this third volume, the author recounts further imprisonment in Valparaíso and the transfer to Rancagua, documenting the shifting conditions of confinement and the ongoing legal battle within an unjust justice system. Written with the same unflinching, first-person honesty that defines the en...

Bearing the Cross - Book One: Valparaíso (part 1) opens Dr. John M. Cobin's five-volume memoir of his wrongful conviction and the five years he spent in the Chilean prison system. In this first volume, the author recounts his arrest, trial, and the early months of incarceration in Valparaíso, documenting the conditions of confinement and the shock of entering an unjust justice system. Written with the same unflinching, first-person honesty that defines the entire series, this book document...

"Should Christians Obey Government?"Is it a sin for you to drive 69 mph in a zone with a posted maximum of 65 mph? Was Christ nailed to the cross for your "sin" of hiring a gardener or a maid who did not have a legitimate "green card" from the immigration authorities? Public policies often entail annoying, costly, and even offensive impositions for Christians. Some policy has been deadly. Indeed, civil government has been more lethal than any infectious disease, plague, or religiou...

Bearing the Cross - Book Five concludes Dr. John M. Cobin's harrowing memoir of imprisonment in Chile's Casablanca penitentiary. As a gringo political prisoner caught in a legal system stacked against him, Cobin exposes the injustices, indignities, and vexations of the Chilean criminal justice and prison system from the inside: corrupt proceedings, degrading conditions, and the daily struggle to preserve his faith, his family, and his sanity. Continuing directly from Book Four, this final ...

Suffering Unjustly is Dr. John M. Cobin's firsthand account of imprisonment, wrecked family life, and the loss of property and wealth endured by a Christian family navigating a modern democratic legal system that failed to deliver justice. After relocating to Chile in pursuit of a freer, more principled life, Cobin found himself entangled in a legal ordeal that tested his faith, his marriage, and his resolve. Written as a companion volume to the Bearing the Cross series and Behind the Wall...