July 05, 2017
Psychological Harm and Free Speech on Campus
Psychological Harm and Free Speech on Campus The short piece I wrote about free speech on college campuses is now available to read online (but not downloadable) here. I…
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July 01, 2017
The Butcher with a Smile – More Mangling from Nancy MacLean
I’m almost finished with Nancy MacLean’s Democracy in Chains, thankfully, as I don’t think I can take much more of her disregard for accuracy in her book-length smear of James…
June 27, 2017
Nancy MacLean Is Either Grossly Incompetent or a Liar
Here, Russ Roberts finds MacLean purposefully removed lines from Cowen in order to stick him with saying the opposite of what he in fact said. Here, Christopher Fleming finds she…
June 23, 2017
Conspire Me This: Is Nancy MacLean a Hired Gun for the Establishment?
Historian Nancy MacLean recently wrote a hit piece smearing James Buchanan and a number of other public choice theorists. What’s Buchanan’s basic message? Simple: Government isn’t magic. In representative democracy, small,…
June 13, 2017
NDPR Discussion of Against Democracy
The Pea Soup blog is hosting a discussion of Thomas Christiano’s review of Against Democracy here. Some comments on the discussion: It’s clear Christiano and I have different views of some…
January 19, 2017
Hurting Low-Information Voters’ Wittle Feelings
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,…