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,…
My review of Sven Beckert’s economic history Empire of Cotton is now up at Reason. I’m more critical than most reviewers have been, but I think it’s an impressive and…
The Princeton University Press blog wrote an independent post on my forthcoming book Against Democracy. They provide a brief overview of the three major types of democratic citizens I discuss, which…
Business Ethics Journal Review has just published a short Commentary I wrote on Brennan and Jaworski’s excellent Markets Without Limits. (This can be readily accessed here!) In brief, I argue…