From Defiant Egoist to Submissive Citizen: Is There a Bridge? Why the Hell Is There a Bridge?

RODERICK T. LONG, Professor, Department of Philosophy, 6080 Haley Center, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama 36849, is the author of Reason and Value: Aristotle versus Rand (The Objectivist Center, 2000), Rituals of Freedom: Libertarian Themes in Early Confucianism (The Molinari Institute, 2016), and Wittgenstein, Austrian Economics, and the Logic of Action: Praxeological Investigations (Routledge, forthcoming); as well as coeditor (with Tibor R. Machan) of Anarchism/Minarchism: Is a Government Part of a Free Country? (Ashgate, 2008) and (with David M. Hart, Gary Chartier, and Ross Miller Kenyon) of Social Class and State Power: Exploring an Alternative Radical Tradition (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). He has also taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Michigan. His chief research interests include ethics, political philosophy, Greek philosophy, philosophy of action, and philosophy of social science. He blogs on philosophy, politics, and science fiction at Austro-Athenian Empire (aaeblog.com).