by Dan Mitchell | Mar 1, 2023 | Blogs
Libertarians have a knee-jerk desire to shrink the footprint of government, even advocating for unconventional ideas such as private roads, private mail delivery, private pensions, private money, and private air traffic control. And, as captured by this Reason video,...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 29, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs
Earlier this month, I defended Disney’s self-governance status. I wasn’t motivated by the company’s position on Florida education legislation (my view is that all sorts of controversial education issues can and should be solved by...
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...
