What Ilya Somin thinks about government
American legal scholar; professor of law at George Mason University's Antonin Scalia Law School and a contributor to The Volokh Conspiracy. Author of Democracy and Political Ignorance (2013) and Free to Move (2020); writes on property rights, migration, federalism and libertarianism.
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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Ilya Somin has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsLibertarians should generally prefer democracy to other forms of government. But democracy should not be a first-order libertarian priority.
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Their wordsThe right answer is that the Nazis were similar to socialists in backing sweeping government control over the economy, yet different from them in rejecting racial and ethnic equality.