#[0]​ I was disappointed by Angela McArdle’s defense of “national divorce.” Like many in the Mises caucus, she has a tendency to view issues through a culture war lens (and progressives are always the bad guys). Nonetheless, I think it’s an open question whether larger or smaller polities best protect liberty. In the case of the United States, I wouldn’t say the Constitution does *nothing*, but clearly it isn’t enforcing itself and Americans are tolerating ever more egregious rationalizations for violating it. I don’t expect the Supreme Court to resist for much longer. Perhaps we would be freer with smaller (even overlapping) governments competing for Americans.