Payton is the Sunday Page Editor for The Libertarian. He is a moderate libertarian, and a strong believer in the ability of markets and societies to self-regulate and produce spontaneous order. He is a former Democratic party activist from the U.S. state of Texas, and is currently studying political science at the University of Edinburgh, with a research focus on the relationship between economic freedom and development in the Special Economic Zones of mainland China. You can find him on Twitter at @AlexanderPayton.