Joe Overton of the Mackinac Center has died in a plane crash. With Larry Reed, he helped create what is widely considered the country’s finest state-level think thank (in Michigan). Joe married his wife Helen only a few months ago. Here’s the toast Reed offered them at the wedding. Freedom has lost one of its great friends.
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John J. Miller, a former national correspondent for National Review, is the director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College. He is the author of A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America.
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