All posts in: Democracy
February 19, 2017
It’s Not a Thought Experiment Anymore
(co-authored with Steve Horwitz) We all know the thought experiment. There are a million versions of it. What do you do if the Nazis show up? Do you hide your…
January 27, 2017
Liberalism in the Balance
What the new president has done in his first few days in office has hardly been surprising, even as it’s profoundly horrific. What has surprised me is the reaction by…
January 19, 2017
Hurting Low-Information Voters’ Wittle Feelings
Opinion-haver Claire Lehmann calls me out for calling low-information voters low-information: A pernicious term used for those who voted for Trump and Brexit is the “low information voter”. Most likely uneducated,…
November 09, 2016
Some Thoughts on the Election
I posted this on Facebook a bit ago and thought it was worth sharing here. Last night, we ate dinner at a brewpub type place in a middle/upper-middle class Indy…
November 08, 2016
Against Democracy, For Sale at Amazon
300 pages of cold, hard truth, only $23 at Amazon. Also, Philip Pettit and I are debating the question, “Is Democracy Overrated?” My first post. His response. More to…