Politicizing the Pandemic

You would think that if any issue would make people set aside their partisan passions it would be the coronavirus pandemic. Isn’t crystal clear that the proper response to this…

Socialism: What’s in a Word?

Chris Freiman, following a suggestion by Jason Brennan, has just published a good post on socialism, showing that socialists are not entitled to define socialism by its goals and aspirations,…

Hart, Dworkin, and Trump

Two federal appeals courts have now held that Trump’s Executive Order temporarily banning immigration from certain countries is unconstitutional. The 4th Circuit thought that the EO was discriminatory, while the…

Democracy and Prosperity

Tom Christiano, a leading theorist of democracy, has just reviewed Jason Brennan’s Against Democracy. In it, he accuses Jason of having an ill-equipped micro-theory that fails to account for the…