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Staff
Scott Horton
Director
Sheldon Richman is senior fellow and chair of the trustees of the Center for a Stateless Society, and a contributing editor at Antiwar.com. He is the former senior editor at the Cato Institute and Institute for Humane Studies, former editor of The Freeman, published by the Foundation for Economic Education, and former vice president at the Future of Freedom Foundation. His latest book is Coming to Palestine.
Sheldon Richman
Executive Editor
Keith Knight is Managing Editor at the Libertarian Institute and host of the Don’t Tread on Anyone podcast.
Keith Knight
Managing Editor
Kyle Anzalone is news editor of the Libertarian Institute, assistant editor of Antiwar.com and co-host of Conflicts of Interest with Will Porter and Connor Freeman.
Kyle Anzalone
News Editor
Hunter DeRensis is editor of the Libertarian Institute, communications director of the veterans advocacy organization Bring Our Troops Home, and formerly senior reporter at The National Interest. His work has been featured at The American Conservative, Responsible Statecraft, Real Clear Defense, Real Clear Politics, Antiwar.com, and the Ludwig von Mises Institute.
Hunter DeRensis
Editor
Connor Freeman is the assistant editor and a writer at the Libertarian Institute, primarily covering foreign policy. He is a co-host on Conflicts of Interest. His writing has been featured in media outlets such as Antiwar.com and Counterpunch, as well as the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity. He has also appeared on Liberty Weekly, Around the Empire, and Parallax Views. You can follow him on Twitter @FreemansMind96
Connor Freeman
Assistant Editor
Tommy Salmons is the host of Year Zero, a podcast focusing on government abuse of power.
Tommy Salmons
Bad-ass, Semi-haulin’ podcaster
Fellows
Laurie Calhoun is the author of We Kill Because We Can: From Soldiering to Assassination in the Drone Age, War and Delusion: A Critical Examination, You Can Leave, and Philosophy Unmasked: A Skeptic’s Critique.
Laurie Calhoun
Senior Fellow
Patrick MacFarlane is the Justin Raimondo Fellow at the Libertarian Institute where he advocates a noninterventionist foreign policy. He is a Wisconsin attorney in private practice. Â He seeks to expose establishment narratives with well researched documentary-style content and insightful guest interviews. His work has appeared on antiwar.com and Zerohedge.
Patrick Macfarlane
Justin Raimondo Fellow
Will Porter is assistant news editor at the Libertarian Institute and a staff writer at RT. Find more of his work at Antiwar.com and Consortium News.
Will Porter
Research Fellow
Connor Freeman is the assistant editor and a writer at the Libertarian Institute, primarily covering foreign policy. He is a co-host on Conflicts of Interest. His writing has been featured in media outlets such as Antiwar.com and Counterpunch, as well as the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity. He has also appeared on Liberty Weekly, Around the Empire, and Parallax Views. You can follow him on Twitter @FreemansMind96
Connor Freeman
Research Fellow
Jim is the author of 10 books. He is a member of the USA Today Board of Contributors and has also written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Playboy, Washington Post, and other publications. His articles have been publicly denounced by the chief of the FBI, the Postmaster General, the Secretary of HUD, and the heads of the DEA, FEMA, and EEOC and numerous federal agencies.
Jim Bovard
Junior Fellow
Ted is the Foreign Policy Fellow at The Libertarian Institute. He has a graduate degree in philosophy and writes on analyzing patterns in U.S. foreign policy and history.
Ted Snider
Foreign Policy Fellow
Richard Booth is the Glenn D. Wilburn Fellow and contributor to the Libertarian Institute. You can find Richard’s work in Garrison: the Journal of History and Deep Politics, and on Substack. Find Richard’s archive of Oklahoma City Bombing primary source materials online here:Â libertarianinstitute.org/okc
Richard Booth
Glenn D. Wilburn Fellow
Board of Directors
Along with his work for the Institute, Scott is editorial director of Antiwar.com, host of Antiwar Radio on Pacifica, 90.7 FM KPFK in Los Angeles, California and podcasts the Scott Horton Show from ScottHorton.org. He’s the author of the 2017 book, Fool’s Errand:Time to End the War in Afghanistan and editor of the 2019 book The Great Ron Paul: The Scott Horton Show Interviews 2004–2019. He’s conducted more than 5,000 interviews since 2003.
Scott Horton
Director
Sheldon Richman is senior fellow and chair of the trustees of the Center for a Stateless Society, and a contributing editor at Antiwar.com. He is the former senior editor at the Cato Institute and Institute for Humane Studies, former editor of The Freeman, published by the Foundation for Economic Education, and former vice president at the Future of Freedom Foundation. His latest book is Coming to Palestine.
Sheldon Richman
Executive Editor
Thomas E. Woods, Jr., is the 2019 winner of the Hayek Lifetime Achievement Award from the Austrian Economics Center in Vienna. He is a senior fellow of the Mises Institute and host of The Tom Woods Show, which releases a new episode every weekday.
Tom Woods
Director
Laurie Calhoun is the author of We Kill Because We Can: From Soldiering to Assassination in the Drone Age, War and Delusion: A Critical Examination, You Can Leave, and Philosophy Unmasked: A Skeptic’s Critique.
Laurie Calhoun
Director
Gary Chartier  is an American legal scholar and philosopher who is currently Distinguished Professor of Law and Business Ethics and Associate Dean of the Tom and Vi Zapara School of Business at La Sierra University in Riverside, California.
Gary Chartier
Director
Steve Woskow is an entrepreneur and was President of Agtech Products, Inc., a research and development company specializing in animal agriculture. He has a Ph.D. in Nutrition and Food Science from Iowa State University. He is retired and lives with his family in Northern Nevada.
Steve Woskow
Secretary
Born in Ithaca, New York. Graduated from Charles O. Dickerson High School in Trumansburg, NY in 1976. Attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1976 and 1977. Graduated from Univ. of Texas at Austin with a degree in Accounting in 1986.
Daniel Gill
Treasurer