by Dan Mitchell | Jan 19, 2020 | Blogs, Crime, Society
Other than an occasional column about events in my home county of Fairfax, I’ve never written about public policy in Virginia. This is because the Commonwealth has had a dull profile. It doesn’t have a track record of notably good policies, such as Florida and Texas,...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 17, 2019 | Blogs
I wrote a three-part series (here, here, and here) about “jury nullification,” which is the notion that jurors can declare defendants not guilty if they think the underlying law is unjust or immoral. We have an example of this happening in New Orleans, though it...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 10, 2019 | Blogs, Uncategorized
I was delighted to learn in 2013 that an overwhelming majority of Americans would disobey if politicians passed laws to confiscate private firearms. And we have firsthand evidence from Colorado and Connecticut that gun owners engage in widespread civil disobedience....
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 4, 2019 | Blogs, Taxation, Trade
For my annual Independence Day columns, I sometimes try to make serious points, such as last year when I shared the very wise words of Calvin Coolidge, who is probably America’s most-underappreciated president. Or when I wrote about the proper meaning of patriotism,...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 17, 2019 | Blogs, Constitution, Economics
Two days ago, I wrote about how the Constitution was designed, in large part, to protect Americans from majoritarianism. The Supreme Court is doing a reasonably good job of protecting some of our liberties (or, in the Heller case, restoring our liberties), but I point...
