Is anarchism the future of the cultural left? The specters that haunt the Western liberal imagination today are not fascism or communism (now confined, nominally, to China, Cuba, Laos, North Korea and Vietnam), but authoritarian ethnonationalism on the one hand and certain brands of anarchism on the other. In a recent post, the prolific political commentator Matthew Yglesias makes a compelling claim: that anarchism, not socialism, may well be the future of the cultural left.