by Dan Mitchell | Dec 17, 2022 | Blogs, Education
A big advantage of living in a constitutional republic is that individual rights are protected from “tyranny of the majority.” Assuming courts are doing their job, it doesn’t matter if 90 percent of voters support restrictions on free...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 8, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs, Education, Regulations, Taxation
Because politicians have built-in incentives to expand the size and scope of government, it is very rare to find elected officials who actually deliver more liberty. Some of them will offer rhetoric, of course, but very few of them produce results....
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 5, 2022 | Blogs, Education
When I write about government schools, I often revise Winston Churchill’s famous quote about the Royal Air Force so that it reads “never have so many paid so much to achieve so little.” That’s because American taxpayers have been dumping ever-larger...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 30, 2022 | Blogs, Education
Since teacher unions care more about lining their pockets and protecting their privileges rather than improving education, I’ll never feel any empathy for bosses like Randi Weingarten. That being said, the past couple of years have been bad news...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 10, 2022 | Blogs, Education, States
I’ve been pontificating in favor of school choice from the early days of this column, in part because I believe in the benefits of competition and in part because there’s such overwhelming evidence that government...
