Downsizing Blog
The Smokey View from the Northwest
Republicans Turn Progressive
Government Octopus Threatens Economy
Privatize to Mitigate Shutdown Damage
Privatizing Federal Grazing Lands
AEI Forum on American Indians
Education for American Indians
Among the many failures of federal policies over the decades, the failures of Indian policies stand out. The government has deprived American Indians of their lands, resources, and freedom in many ways. It has failed to create an institutional structure supportive of prosperity on reservations. And the Bureau of Indian Affairs has been mismanaged for two centuries, as I discuss here.
Devolving Federal Lands
Indians, Free Markets, and Property Rights
Burt’s Bees and Bureaucracies
The Washington Post discusses an effort by a Maine philanthropist to donate 88,000 acres of land to the National Park Service (NPS). Showing good sense, Mainers are pushing back against the idea: