by Dan Mitchell | Mar 22, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, Education
Today’s column is about shutting down the Department of Education. But I’m not going to explain why that should happen since I have already done that (once in 2015 and twice (here and here) in 2022). Instead I’m going to explain how it should...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 10, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs
Five years ago, I wrote that globalization is good, but that global governance is bad. That’s because globalization (as I define it) means free trade and other forms of cross-border economic activity. All of which is very consistent...
by Dan Mitchell | May 6, 2023 | Blogs, Europe
Most Americans pay little or no attention to the European Union and its various bureaucratic and political arms in Brussels. But that’s unwise. What happens in Europe can have an impact on policy in the United States. For instance, I have been very...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 18, 2023 | Blogs, Education
There’s much to admire about public policy in Canada, including good policies today (private air traffic control and no department of education) and good policies in the past (rigorous spending restraint in the 1990s). But there are also mistakes. Like...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 6, 2023 | Blogs, Europe
If globalism means free trade and peaceful interaction among peoples, sign me up. I’m a big supporter. But if globalism means international bureaucracies working to increase the power of governments (i.e., dirigiste forms of global governance), then I’m...
