The speaker explores the relevance of Harvey Milk's famous line and discusses how Ronald Reagan's statement about government shaped public perception. They introduce a book called 'The Big Myth' and introduce their guest, who has moved away from libertarianism.
Our first lifeboat is hope — hope that government could actually do good. Brink Lindsey, formerly of the Cato Institute, and now Director of the Open Society Project at the Niskanen Center, talks to me about governmental capacity, and how we could make it better.