About the Center
The Center for a Stateless Society is a project of the Molinari Institute and dedicated to building public awareness of, and support for, market anarchism. We provide news commentary, related analysis and original research from our unique perspective, serving as a market anarchist media center.
Contacts:
General inquiries about this web site: admin@c4ss.org
Media inquiries: media@c4ss.org
Staff
- Brad Spangler, Director — Brad Spangler has been a libertarian activist since stumbling across Murray Rothbard’s “For a New Liberty” while more or less randomly browsing in a public library back in 1990. He helped petition for ballot access for the Missouri Libertarian Party in the early 90′s, took part in party organizing and educational efforts and supported both candidates and ballot issue campaigns. He will forever have difficulty living down the ignominy of being one of the few anarchists to have been elected to public office, serving as a City Councilman in the tiny industrial suburb of North Kansas City, Missouri from 1996 to 1998 before running as the Libertarian candidate for Missouri’s 31st State Rep. district in 1998. Early in the first decade of this century, his focus began to shift from gradual reform to the promotion and refinement of the radically anti-state views that won him to libertarianism in the first place with their intellectual rigor and firm commitment to moral principle. Today, he’s the maintainer of the web site agorism.info, the Director of the Center for a Stateless Society, a market anarchist media center, and is involved in numerous other projects.
- James Tuttle, Associate Director – James Tuttle is a left-libertarian Ostromite Anarchist; Instructor for the C4SS Stateless University Course: Introduction to Anarchism, Bravo Section; Co-organizer for the Tulsa Anarchist Meetup; Co-Editor of the left-libertarian zine ALLiance Journal; Friend of Corvus Editions; and a proud Delegate of the Industrial Workers of the World. James can be reached at james.tuttle@c4ss.org.
- Kevin Carson, Research Associate — Kevin Carson is a contemporary mutualist author and individualist anarchist whose written work includes Studies in Mutualist Political Economy and Organization Theory: An Individualist Anarchist Perspective, both of which are freely available online. Carson has also written for a variety of internet-based journals and blogs, including Just Things, The Art of the Possible, the P2P Foundation and his own Mutualist Blog.
- Thomas L. Knapp, Media Coordinator and Senior News Analyst — Thomas L. Knapp is a long-time libertarian activist and the author of Writing the Libertarian Op-Ed, an e-booklet which shares the methods underlying his more than 100 published op-ed pieces in mainstream print media. Knapp publishes Rational Review News Digest, a daily news and commentary roundup for the freedom movement.
- Darian Worden, News Analyst — Darian Worden is an individualist anarchist writer with experience in libertarian activism. His fiction includes Bring a Gun To School Day and the forthcoming Trade War. His essays and other works can be viewed at his personal website. He also hosts an internet radio show, Thinking Liberty, on PatriotRadio.com.
- David D’Amato, News Analyst — David D’Amato is a market anarchist lawyer (he hopes you won’t hold it against him) currently completing an LL.M. at Suffolk University Law School. His hatred for superstition and all permutations of political authority manifests itself at www.firsttruths.com.
- Ross Kenyon, Research Assistant — Ross Kenyon, native of the American southwest, is an essayist with the ALLiance of the Libertarian Left where he is interested in questions of meaning, culture, language and community. He also serves on the Executive Board of the Alumni For Liberty wing of Students For Liberty.
- Mike Gogulski, Web Administrator — Mike Gogulski is a stateless ex-American living in Europe. He blogs at NoState.com and is a founder of the Bradley Manning Support Network.
Advisory Panel
- Roderick Long
- Charles Johnson
- Stephan Kinsella — Stephan is a libertarian scholar and attorney in Houston. He is the Founding and Executive Editor of Libertarian Papers and the founder and Director of the Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom (C4SIF). Stephan is actively involved with the Property and Freedom Society, and is also a member of the Editorial Board of Reason Papers and of The Journal of Peace, Prosperity & Freedom [Australia]. He was formerly a partner with Duane Morris LLP, General Counsel for Applied Optoelectronics, Inc., adjunct law professor at South Texas College of Law, and Book Review Editor of the Journal of Libertarian Studies. Stephan has published many libertarian articles and books including Property, Freedom, and Society: Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe (co-editor, Mises Institute, 2009), Against Intellectual Property (Mises Institute, 2008; Laissez Faire Books edition forthcoming 2012), and the forthcoming Law in a Libertarian World: Legal Foundations of a Free Society (Laissez Faire Books). Stephan’s legal publications include International Investment, Political Risk, and Dispute Resolution: A Practitioner’s Guide (co-author, Oxford University Press, 2005), Louisiana Civil Law Dictionary (co-author, Quid Pro Books, 2011), and several other legal treatises published by Oxford University Press, Oceana Publications, and West/Thompson Reuters.
- Wendy McElroy — Wendy McElroy is a Research Fellow at The Independent Institute. Books she has authored include Liberty for Women: Freedom and Feminism in the 21st Century, Freedom, Feminism, and the State, Sexual Correctness, The Reasonable Woman: A Guide to Intellectual Survival, Dissenting Electorate: Those Who Refuse to Vote and the Legitimacy of Their Opposition, Queen Silver, Individualist Feminism of the Nineteenth Century, Debates of Liberty: An Overview of Individualist Anarchism, 1881-1908 and Liberty 1881-1908: A Comprehensive Index. She is a contributing editor to numerous books and magazines as well as being one of the foremost experts on the American individualist anarchist tradition.
- Sheldon Richman — Sheldon Richman is the proprietor of the Free Association blog, and the author of Separating School and State, Your Money or Your Life, Tethered Citizens, and hundreds of articles.
- Gary Chartier — Gary Chartier is Associate Professor of Law and Business Ethics, and Associate Dean of the School of Business, at La Sierra University. He is the author of Economic Justice and Natural Law (Cambridge University Press 2009), The Analogy of Love (Imprint Academic 20007), and the forthcoming The Conscience of an Anarchist, as well as articles in journals including the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Legal Theory, Religious Studies, and the Journal of Social Philosophy. He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge and a JD from the University of California at Los Angeles.
