by Dan Mitchell | May 13, 2016 | Blogs, Uncategorized
I will always have fond feelings for Playboy, though not for the stereotypical reason. My appreciation for the magazine is largely based on the fact that I got a very nice honorarium from the German version back in the 1990s for writing an assessment of Bill Clinton’s...
by Dan Mitchell | May 4, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Regulations, Taxation
I’m a bleeding heart libertarian in that I get most upset about statist policies that make life harder for disadvantaged people so that folks with more money can get undeserved goodies. For instance, I despise anti-school choice leftists because they value political...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 8, 2015 | Blogs, Society
One of the great things about being a libertarian is that you have no desire for government sanctions against peaceful people who are different than you are, and that should be a very popular stance. You can be a libertarian who is also a serious fundamentalist, yet...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 1, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Free Market
What’s the difference between libertarians and conservatives? I’ve touched on that issue before, citing some interesting research which suggests that the underlying difference involves cultural factors such as attitudes about authority. But let’s narrow the question...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 2, 2015 | Blogs, Society
When describing their view of government and public policy, libertarians and constitutional conservatives sometimes use a variation of this phrase: “Not everything that’s illegal is immoral, and not everything that’s immoral should be illegal.” To put this in tangible...
