Michael English has served in Afghanistan and the Middle East as an intelligence officer in the Royal Australian Air Force. He has a master’s degree in international law from the University of Sydney.
There is more talk of secession and civil war in the United States today than at any time since the 1850s, and popular confidence in government appears to be at an all-time low. As a foreigner, I have...
As political divisions worsen in the United States, one remedy besides secession might be to create semiautonomous regional territories.
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The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.
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