| Ryan McMaken, editor of Mises.org, joins Jeff Deist to figure out what the shocking Brexit vote really means. Are secession movements and political decentralization always good for liberty? Why do some libertarians disagree? Why does the Left love centralized state power, when in fact progressives could enact their entire agenda here and now—if only in certain states like California? Is a growing tide of anti-globalist sentiment necessarily bad for Hillary and good for Trump? And, will Brexit lead to much bigger implosions, such as an actual Eurozone nation leaving the EU and resurrecting its old currency?
For further reading see Murray Rothbard’s article “Nations by Consent: Decomposing the Nation-State” (https://mises.org/library/nations-consent-decomposing-nation-state-0) and Ryan McMaken’s book ‘Commie Cowboys: The Bourgeoisie and the Nation-State in the Western Genre’ (https://mises.org/library/commie-cowboys-bourgeoisie-and-nation-state-western-genre). |
Ryan McMaken is the editor of Mises Wire and The Austrian. Send him your article submissions, but read article guidelines first. (Contact: email; twitter.) Ryan has degrees in economics and political science from the University of Colorado, and was the economist for the Colorado Division of Housing from 2009 to 2014. He is the author of Commie Cowboys: The Bourgeoisie and the Nation-State in the Western Genre.
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