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…
Finding examples of misleading, incorrect, and outright butchered quotes and citations in Nancy MacLean’s new book about James Buchanan, Democracy in Chains, has become the academic version of Pokemon Go this…
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…
Tom Christiano, a leading theorist of democracy, has just reviewed Jason Brennan’s Against Democracy. In it, he accuses Jason of having an ill-equipped micro-theory that fails to account for the…
The Niskanen Center has posted my new essay on reasonable political disagreements. I explain both why we often mistakenly assume that our political disagreements are unreasonable and how to avoid…
The mean, median, and modal voter is badly informed, and as a result, votes for politicians and parties he would not support if only he were well-informed. As a result,…