Against Democracy will be available a few weeks early, on August 9, from Amazon. German, Portuguese, and Italian translations will be available next year, and the German publisher will be flying…
What’s striking about most philosophical democratic theory is how irrelevant it is to justifying actual democracy. The common theme could be: “Here’s why democracy would be awesome…if only it worked entirely differently…
Just published at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, here’s my entry on voting. Give it a read! Table of Contents: This entry focuses on six major questions concerning the rationality and…
Diana Mutz’s Hearing the Other Side is one of my favorite books on political behavior and among the most influential books in my own intellectual development. It’s easy to read, short,…
In The Ethics of Voting, I argue that voters owe their fellow a citizens a duty of care. They generally have no duty to vote, but if they decide to vote, then they…
The general election seasons is underway, and so now it’s time for partisans to try to stop you from voting third party. You’ll hear people say that a vote for Johnson,…