Membretjvanwyk

Anarchism, libertarianism, and politics, economics, philosophy in general. Not a lot of fiction. I'm proud to say I've filled up my bookshelf as well as my bed's headboard with titles, so some of my books have found a home in a stack on the floor.

If a book has been burned, banned, cursed, defamed, renounced, or otherwise mistreated, and it's not already in my library, it's on my wishlist. (Sadly that means I have a lot of book-buying and reading to do!)

I hail from a sleepy little town in southeast Wisconsin. I am currently an undergraduate student.

I count as intellectual influences the following: Murray Rothbard, Lysander Spooner, Benjamin Tucker, Voltairine de Cleyre, Samuel Konkin III, Ludwig von Mises, Thomas Sowell, and so many others.

I ascribe myself roughly to a left-libertarian (or "New Libertarian") brand of anarchism. I hope for the realization of "anarchism without adjectives," holding that in the absence of the state a variety of voluntary alternative arrangements to the State, both individualist and collectivist, competitive and cooperative, could and would coexist. For most of my time as an anarchist, I have considered himself a "natural rights" anarchist, though I am beginning to see Stirnerite egoism and Spoonerian moralism as mutually-reinforcing.

Outside of politics, I enjoy fiction by Steven King, Edgar Allen Poe, and especially the great H.P. Lovecraft.

Oh, PS - writing is the reverse of reading, so I blog a lot and dash off columns as often as possible.