Center for a Stateless Society

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
• 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, 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.
• Alex R. Knight III, News Analyst — Alex R. Knight III is an author of horror, science fiction, and fantasy tales, living and writing in rural southern Vermont. He is the author of Victoria’s Place and Other Tales of Terror (BareBones Publishing, 2008), and numerous other works, including non-fiction and poetry. He is also a regular contributor to the libertarian journal Strike The Root, and his archive may be accessed here.
• 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.
• Mike Gogulski, Web Administrator — Mike Gogulski is a stateless ex-American living in Europe. He blogs at NoState.com.

In addition, we occasional feature a variety of volunteer contributing writers. Interested in being a contributing writer? Check out our writer’s guide.

Advisory Panel

• Stephan Kinsella — Stephan Kinsella is a libertarian writer and attorney in Houston and a Senior Fellow of the Ludwig von Mises Institute. He is General Counsel for Applied Optoelectronics, Inc., and formerly a partner with Duane Morris LLP and adjunct law professor at South Texas College of Law. Formerly Book Review Editor of the Journal of Libertarian Studies (2000-04), he is the founder and Editor of Libertarian Papers (January 2009-present). He is actively involved with the Mises Institute and has published many libertarian articles as well as books such as Property, Freedom, and Society: Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe (co-editor, Mises Institute, 2009) and Against Intellectual Property (Mises Institute, 2008). His legal publications include International Investment, Political Risk, and Dispute Resolution: A Practitioner’s Guide (London: Oxford University Press, 2005) and several other legal treatises. Forthcoming books include Louisiana Civil Law Dictionary and The Ethics of Action: Fundamentals of Libertarian Legal Theory.
• 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.