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If you’re curious about this, here’s a good piece that discusses this philosophy.
https://www.libertarianism.org/columns/minarchists-anarchists-in-libertarian-history
(My guess is that one’s not going to be popular with the folks here, but I could be wrong!)
It handles the basics—military, the courts, the police—but leaves everything else alone, focusing on governing theft, public safety, or crimes of aggression. So basically zero social safety net, leaving someone else in charge of that.
Maybe that could open up better systems? Who knows.
First up, let’s talk about the night-watchman, or minarchist, state. A very minimalist libertarian-leaning, almost anarchist, model of the state that is essentially leaves government out of it except in very basic or extreme cases.
And when I hear “night watchman,” I think of Batman.
Please note that the word "open" is used by itself in this article, it's surrounded by quotation marks:" OpenAI plans to release a new 'open' AI language model in the coming months | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/31/openai-plans-to-release-a-new-open-language-model-in-the-coming-months/
Sometimes Le Sword is mightier than Le Pen.
So, for this one, I decided to break it down into a handful of different approaches, because everyone’s definition of an “improvement” is bound to differ. Consider these to be a bit of a sliding scale in terms of how hands-on government actually is, starting with least and going to most.
Every time an authoritarian con-artist is held accountable, every time the mask slips in a courtroom, the spell weakens.
It takes pressure. It takes a public that doesn't flinch when the volume gets turned up. It takes faith - not in the perfection of institutions, but in their potential.
https://www.theindex.media/authoritarian-grift-meets-the-grind-of-justice/
OK, next reader request. This one, from Nate C., talks about politics at a higher level:
Dictator Donald’s so-called “Liberation Day” tariffs will suffocate the U.S. auto industry. Prices will soar, choices will shrink, and profits will vanish. This isn’t economic patriotism—it’s economic vandalism, disguised as nationalism, sold to the gullible as revival.
www.economist.com/bu...
Donald Trump’s plan for Americ...
