In Gene Healy's blog post about Liberal Federalism, he notes, "I'd like to think that the Republican assault on federalism would lead to a resurgence of decentralist liberalism" (emphasis added). As I commented there-- it would also be nice to see a resurgence of decentralist libertarianism too.
Healy, a Cato Senior Editor, is a great opponent of "libertarian centralism": see Healy's great articles: States’ Rights Revisited, from The Freeman, and the following 4 articles from LRC (all linked at his LRC archive) : Contra Centralism (libertarian states rights scholar Gene Healy takes on Clinton Bolick, Roger Pilon, and John McClaughry, advocates of liberty through federal power); Roger Pilon and the 14th Amendment (Gene Healy, the libertarian legal scholar who's brought sanity to discussions of an evil amendment, continues his work); Libertarian Reflections (Gene Healy on Waco, Paul Johnson, neocons, war, and left-libertarian nonsense); and The Squalid 14th Amendment (ratified by trickery during the federal military dictatorship over the South, this treacherous appendage to the Constitution is an attack on liberty and its American political foundation, states rights); see also my pieces: Supreme Confusion, Or, A Libertarian Defense of Affirmative Action, Barnett and the 14th Amendment; and Happy Bill of Rights Day -- The Problem with the Fourteenth Amendment (which contains links to other articles on this). See also the HNN discussion thread Should We Celebrate Enforcing the Commerce Clause against the States?,, in which some libertarians oppose the notion of federalism (discussed in Libertarian Centralists and Europe).
