Roderick T. Long

My favorite left-brained anarchist of late has been Roderick T. Long, a philosophy professor at Auburn University and the head of a small, market anarchist think tank called The Molinari Institute.

( Cat Farmer is still my favorite right-brained anarchist.)

(You can listen to Long's recent lecture on anarchism here or read a PDF transcript here.)

When I wrote my recent blog post on liberal anarchism, I hadn't yet read his recent post on a very similar topic.

I disagree with him: I think it's dangerous to fight candidate symptoms of statism, since our candidates are so often wrong.

Above all, do no harm.

But it's sobering to have someone I respect take the opposing view.