FROM THE ARCHIVES
15 YEARS AGO
December 2004
“The Free State Project is the most recent and successful face of libertarian separatism—or, as some call it, libertarian Zionism. To be sure, many involved in the search for new libertarian communities reject such terms. Roderick Long, a philosophy professor at Auburn University and the brains behind the Libertarian Nation Foundation, a group dedicated to theorizing about the because ‘the attraction is not that I don’t want to live near or interact with nonlibertarians. Most of my best friends are nonlibertarians. We don’t want to live by ourselves but simply want a chance to demonstrate to the world that libertarian principles actually work. We want to escape from government, not escape from ordinary decent people’ who happen not to share their political philosophy.”
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