CHANGE

Think nothing can be done? Vote for Gary Johnson. Let’s work on getting moralistic and paternalistic laws off the books so that there is less policing in the first place….

Brexit and Epistocracy: Why a Referendum Is a Dumb Idea

Update: Now in shiny Newsweek edition. I have a post at the Princeton University Press blog on Brexit, Democracy, and Epistocracy. Rather than saying whether the decision was right or wrong, I criticize the…

June 20, 2016

Demagogues and Democracy; Trump and Epistocracy

Zócalo Public Square has discussion today on democracies and the problem of demagogues. Here’s my piece. Excerpt: In a well-functioning democracy, elites and the people keep each other in check. To some…

May 18, 2016

Stanley on Free Market Ideology

UPDATE: Make sure to read the comments posted below from Stanley, who claims I’ve misunderstood the thesis of this essay. His comments are entirely reasonable. In re-reading his essay after…

May 17, 2016

Ignorance, Misinformation, Irrationality

Chapter 2 of my forthcoming book Against Democracy is titled “Ignorant, Irrational, Misinformed Nationalists”. In that chapter, among other things, I review the empirical work on voter knowledge and behavior and…

May 03, 2016

Questions and Answers on Workplace Democracy

My BHL colleague Chris Freiman has three questions for left-libertarians concerning how we reconcile our “commitment to workplace democracy” with the “other commitments that libertarians are inclined to have.” Here…

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June 24, 2016