Two writers that have influenced my own thinking as much as any others are Noam Chomsky and Kevin Carson. Chomsky has probably influenced my thinking on international relations to a greater degree than any other writer on the topic, and Carson has probably influenced my thinking on economics more than any other. For this reason, it has been particularly saddening to see both of them descend into madness apparently driven by pathological right-wingophobia. Today, anarchist Noam Chomsky parrots the “Vote Blue, No Matter Who” MSNBC party line (even though MSNBC still won’t let him on the air) while anarchist Kevin Carson trivializes working-class and petite bourgeois protestors unable to make a living because of the lockdowns, and ridicules libertarians concerns about the pandemic being used as a pretext for statist expansion, apparently, because the infinitely threatening right-wing pinup girl Tomi Lahren happens to agree with them.