January 13, 2017
Intervention and Revolution
I’ve been writing lately about war. Bas van der Vossen and I have a volume upcoming at Oxford University Press entitled Debating Humanitarian Intervention. Today I published a post over at…
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November 02, 2016
Buy Vlad Tarko’s New Intellectual Biography of Elinor Ostrom
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…
October 31, 2016
Against Democracy in the New Yorker
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…
September 14, 2016
Democracy and Freedom
I have a paper in the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Freedom called “Democracy and Freedom”. It’s available online first here. Abstract: There seems to be an intimate connection between democracy and…
August 30, 2016
These Two Bumptious, Malicious White Dudes Say Adjuncts Aren’t Exploited
Just look at these smug privileged white dudes: While trillions of adjuncts have no access to peer-reviewed journals, these pilgarlics continue to assert their publishing privilege. Just recently, the soi-dissant Journal…
August 18, 2016
Schleisser contra Brennan on Epistocracy, Sort Of
Eric Schleisser considers himself a fierce critic of Brennanism. I’m not so sure he his, because he often seems to be arguing against positions that are closely related to mine,…