Brendan Croom

Letter to the editor: World state unlikely to form, hard to run

In his Dec. 1 opinion column "America should join world state," Ryan Quinn was right to suggest that the world's governments could improve with international cooperation, but was wrong to propose that a world government could bring world peace and fair governance. Of course, a unified state offers obvious benefits. Economic unity often leads to greater prosperity, and a world under one government would likely foster more amicable relations across the globe. But such a utopian vision is unfeasible and impractical.