September 26, 2017
What Kneeling Athletes Reveal about Political Psychology
Today at the Princeton University Press blog, I have a post on the current controversy and what it tells us about how people “think” about politics. Some excerpts: …
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September 13, 2017
Horwitz review of Nancy MacLean’s Democracy in Chains
The published version of my review of Nancy MacLean’s Democracy in Chains is now available at the Cato Journal. The main argument: “In the rest of this essay, I will briefly…
August 03, 2017
Hutt on Constitutional Constraints as Protection for the Politically Weak
Nancy MacLean’s Democracy in Chains has been the gift that keeps on giving. Rather than pile on yet another specific error in the book, I want to briefly address one…
July 27, 2017
“Afraid to be Free” and Nancy MacLean Revisited.
A few people have noted (correctly) that Nancy MacLean stated that she was quoting from a draft of “Afraid to be Free”. Since this was so, some (well, one person!)…
July 12, 2017
A Devastating Review of Nancy MacLean’s Book on the Klan
Good fortune has brought me a review of Nancy MacLean’s 1994 book on the KKK. If you think Mike Munger’s review of the new book was devastating, this is worse….
July 10, 2017
The Problem of Pluralism Isn’t Real
I recently read Linda Zerilli’s A Democratic Theory of Judgment. The book explores and sort of gestures at a solution to what we might call the Problem of Pluralism….