In case you haven’t heard, Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson have published a remarkable book with Oxford University Press: The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life. Here…
Two links for ya: Scott Aikin and Robert Talisse discuss the problem of hooliganism inside epistocracy, and the problem of political stability. Ilya Somin follows up on my earlier post…
A few times, political theorists—most recently Jeff Isaac at Indiana’s Ostrom Workshop—have raised a particular objection to Against Democracy. (I mention political theorists because I think it’s interesting that theorists,…
Today at the Princeton University Press blog, I have a post on the current controversy and what it tells us about how people “think” about politics. Some excerpts: …
One might expect a historian going through Buchanan’s works trying to find his views on this subject to discover this letter, but no, it’s much easier I guess…
(Please excuse the improper spacing in this piece. Weird glitch. Don’t know how to fix it.) If you think Trump’s (or Canada’s or whatnot’s) points system for immigration is a…