by Dan Mitchell | Apr 21, 2022 | Blogs, Uncategorized
Like any practical libertarian, I prefer decentralization (Switzerland is a great role model). My default view is that it is better for things such as roads and schools to be handled at the local level. But I’m also an impractical libertarian. I...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 10, 2022 | Blogs, Education
You can find examples of libertarianism in some very unexpected places. MexicoNigeriaSomaliaGermanyArgentina What’s particularly interesting are the examples of how private governance is evolving in developing nations. These are real-world example of...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 9, 2018 | Blogs, Uncategorized
I’m sometimes accused of being too radical, though I take that as a compliment (including the time a British journalist wrote that I was “a high priest of light tax, small state libertarianism”). In reality, I’m actually a moderate. I don’t want to eliminate all...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 24, 2017 | Blogs
Whenever someone accuses me of being too dogmatically opposed to government, I tell them that I only got 94 out of 160 possible points when I took Professor Bryan Caplan’s Libertarian Purity Quiz. That’s barely 70 percent, which makes it seem like I’m some sort of...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 12, 2017 | Uncategorized
My favorite anti-libertarian video is the one based on the notion that Somalia is a libertarian paradise. Since no libertarian has ever pointed to that country as a role model, the underlying premise is a bit silly (I’ve written something semi-favorable about...
