Some comments on Sunni's interview with F. Paul Wilson:

1. I heartily agree that Black Wind is Wilson's best novel to date, and highly recommend it to any and all. It's a shame Black Wind isn't more widely known.

2. No, it's not true that "the definition of anarchy is no law". Check out the Greek roots of the word: it literally means "without rulers". As David Friedman, Murray Rothbard, and Bruce Benson have shown via both theoretical argument and historical examples, it's entirely possible to have laws that protect individual rights, without having a state.

I consider myself a "rule-of-law" anarchist. That is, one of the reasons I'm an anarchist is because the state is inherently incompatible with true rule of law (the state and its officers are never subject to the same rules as the rest of us.)

3. As a great fan of Wilson's novels, I was quite disappointed to encounter his "people are no damned good, therefore we need the strong hand of the state to keep them in line" mindset. Why is it that the proponents of this viewpoint can never understand that if people are "no damned good", then it is lunacy to give them coercive control over other people's lives? That the state and its coercive powers attract the worst elements of society like shit attracts flies?

Anyway, thanks, Sunni, for an interesting interview.