Chatting one day with Baylen Linnekin, founder of the painfully irreverent blog To The People, we discovered our mutual admiration for chef-writer-traveller extraordinaire Anthony Bourdain. Baylen immediately began to make an impassioned case that Bourdain is the best popular example of someone living a libertarian lifestyle today. It made sense. Bourdain is a libertine who supports open borders, praises globalization, and advocates personal choice whether it comes to tobacco, fois gras, or pot. Now I understood why I liked Bourdain so much.
“Baylen,” I said, “you should write an article on this. Heck, Bourdain’s on book tour–shouldn’t be to hard to score an interview with him.” At that my friend’s fanboy eyes widened. Fast-forward three months and here’s Baylen’s piece (along with audio of their 40-minute conversation) in the new issue of Doublethink, a D.C.-based print quarterly I work with.
The verdict? Like a lot of folks, Bourdain’s a libertarian even if he doesn’t know it yet.
This post is by Guest Blogger Jerry Brito. Thanks!