August 11, 2016
Judgments of Superiority
Another except from chapter 5 (“Politics Is Not a Poem”) of Against Democracy. Thomas Christiano bases an argument for the duty to…
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August 11, 2016
Arbitrary vs. Non-Arbitrary Grounds for Political Inequality
From Against Democracy. Many take it as an unquestionable, non-negotiable axiom that everyone ought not to have an equal share of political power. Unequal political power is a marker of…
August 10, 2016
Return of the Philosopher King? Not So Fast
Here are two predictable but silly ways people who haven’t read Against Democracy will react to it: Quote Buckley saying that he’d rather be ruled by the first hundred people from the…
August 10, 2016
Is Democracy Like a Hammer, a Painting, or a Person?
What kind of value, if any, does democracy have? I discuss some answers to that question at the Princeton University Press blog today, with some bits from chapter 1 of…
August 10, 2016
Against Democracy: Now Available From Amazon
Here’s my newest book, published by Princeton University Press, available on Amazon a few weeks ahead of schedule: I’d rather be the gadfly that stirs up the field than the…
August 05, 2016
Interview with me on Against Democracy
Against Democracy will be available a few weeks early, on August 9, from Amazon. German, Portuguese, and Italian translations will be available next year, and the German publisher will be flying…