Inside @JMilei's radical plan to make Argentina “the world’s freest...

Inside @JMilei's radical plan to make Argentina “the world’s freest country.”

The @JMilei I met was not what I had expected. On social media, he presents himself as a rock star. In the presidential office, he is soberly attired, a little formal. Only when Milei begins to answer my questions does it become clear that he is no ordinary president.

To call @JMilei professorial would be an insult. He has always been too much of a dissident—too libertarian on economics, too conservative on social questions—to have played any part in modern academic life. But he is, first and foremost, an intellectual.

Yet @JMilei also a man of the people, who relishes his occasional lapses into profane language. And he is learning, late in life, the realities of South American politics.

This was an amazing and inspiring conversation: thefp.com/p/niall-fergus… for @TheFP