Donald Trump waves his hands and proclaims, “America first!” His supporters cheer. Around the world, people recoil in horror, even though most of them support [Insert their home country here]…
Maybe you’ve seen this meme. The implicit argument is that since a small percentage of refugees may turn out to be dangerous, we should exclude all of them. But,…
Opinion-haver Claire Lehmann calls me out for calling low-information voters low-information: A pernicious term used for those who voted for Trump and Brexit is the “low information voter”. Most likely uneducated,…
300 pages of cold, hard truth, only $23 at Amazon. Also, Philip Pettit and I are debating the question, “Is Democracy Overrated?” My first post. His response. More to…
Vlad Tarko’s Elinor Ostrom: An Intellectual Biography is now available for pre-order on Amazon. This is one of those books that’s guaranteed to make you smarter. Highly recommended. Here are the endorsements, including…
Read a longish review here, forthcoming in the Nov 7 issue. See also the symposium on populism as a threat to democracy in Zócalo Public Square. My entry, “Much like…