by Dan Mitchell | Dec 15, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs
When I write about gun control, it’s normally to make wonky points about how gun ownership reduces crime by changing the cost-benefit analysis of potential bad guys. Today, in honor of Bill of Rights Day, let’s change the focus and celebrate the ratification of the...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 25, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs
The good thing about being a libertarian is that real-world events repeatedly demonstrate that your skepticism of big government is fully justified. Nations that adopt dirigiste policies don’t do well. States that adopt dirigiste policies don’t do well....
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 16, 2020 | Blogs, Constitution
A pure democracy, where 51 percent of the people have the right to do anything they want, is not a desirable form of government. It means tyranny of the majority. That’s why America’s Founding Fathers instead created a constitutional republic, not only because they...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 26, 2020 | Blogs, Uncategorized
Some of my right-wing friends complain about “judicial activism,” which seems to mean that they want courts to defer to other branches of government. Since I’m opposed to majoritarianism and because I want courts to defend and protect all parts of the Constitution, I...
by Dan Mitchell | May 30, 2020 | Blogs, Economics
In this interview from last March, I groused that the Supreme Court – largely thanks to statist Justices appointed by one of America’s worst presidents – basically decided, starting in the 1930s, that it would no longer be bound by the Constitution’s provisions that...
