And here’s Dan appearing yesterday on CNBC.
My former student Alex Nowrasteh debunks the myth of an illegal-immigrant crime wave.
Because those who govern us will always be self-interested, public choice analysis often leads to recommendations for less and smaller government, as well as public policies that are scrupulously neutral as between groups, including ethnic groups. These are hardly disreputable ideas. Martin Luther King Jr. himself dreamed of a day when people would be judged “not by the colour of their skin, but by the content of their character.” Small, neutral government also has a long intellectual history, if an imperfect implementation, in the United States. The Virginian who wrote America’s mission statement declaimed ringingly that “all men are created equal,” even if he did own slaves.
