Catallarchy On Neal Stephenson's Subtlety

Lynne Kiesling

Jonathan Wilde has this wonderful and annoying tendency to articulate things about which I have been ruminating before I have fully formed my ideas. In this post he does so about Neal Stephenson's "radical libertarian views ... he writes about libertarian themes - technological empowerment, data havens, free banking, polycentric law, anonymous digital cash, holocaust prevention, Enlightenment ideals, cryptography, and distributed power - in novels that appeal to the mainstream without being overtly preachy."

Yeah. What he said.