Anthony Gregory

Anthony Gregory is a self-described anarcho-libertarian and a fellow at the Independent Institute, a libertarian think tank in the United States. Gregory has contributed content to The Huffington Post,Center for a Stateless Society,The Libertarian Standard, the Future of Freedom Foundation, and Mises Daily. He also maintains his writings on his personal website.

Gregory has studied at the University of California, Berkeley.

Gregory's political views were influenced by those of his parents. His father was an anti-war conservative who voted for George McGovern instead of Richard Nixon because of the latter's support for the Vietnam War; his mother was an anti-Communist immigrant from Korea. Gregory says he became an anarchist in college, after seeing what he considered to be government bungling of its key function of national security during and after the September 11 attacks in 2001.

Gregory identifies as an anarcho-libertarian, and opposes many actions that he perceives to be government overreach.

In an interview, Gregory identified prisons as an important political issue that libertarians at large have tended not to care about as much as he thinks they should. Gregory's chief criticisms include the imprisonment of non-violent drug offenders, the imprisonment of innocent people due to low evidentiary standards, and the use of methods of imprisonment that are tantamount to torture.

Gregory has been critical of the Iraq War and other recent international war-like involvement by the United States. Gregory's views on the Iraq War were included in a Reason Magazine summary of libertarian thoughts on the Iraq War 10 years after the beginning of the war.

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