April 04, 2014
Political Science and the Obvious
Robert Wenzel expresses incredulity at my recent post on campaign expenditures. (He doesn’t indicate whether he read any of the papers I linked to.) Wenzel writes: Aside from the question of…
Author: Jason Brennan
April 02, 2014
Does Campaign Finance Buy Power? Results?
Many people are going to be infuriated today. But their fury is based on an unproven, quite possibly false, assumption. USA Today writes: WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court took another…
April 01, 2014
New Gig at Salon
Salon Magazine frequently features articles about libertarians and libertarianism, but these articles paint libertarianism in the most uncharitable light possible. However, to their credit, the editors genuinely want to produce accurate…
March 17, 2014
In Praise of Open Borders
March 16 was “Open Borders Day.” I’m celebrating a day late. Here is a relevant excerpt from Libertarianism: What Everyone Needs to Know. Libertarians…advocate open borders and…
February 19, 2014
Is Graduate School for Me? (My short talk at ISFLC)
The Institute for Humane Studies asked me to give a short talk to a group of undergrads at ISFLC who expressed an interest in grad school. Here, roughly, is the…
February 12, 2014
Ideal Frat Theory
I’m in the process of writing Against Politics. Among other things, the book argues that Mill was wrong and Schumpeter was right about how political engagement affects us. Political engagement doesn’t…