1. Academia is a highly right-wing place; leftism serves as an “expressive recompense” for that. 2. Academia is the gatekeeper of power and status. Leftism serves to temper the future…
Today on Facebook I read a comment from someone saying he hates America because so many Americans are apathetic about politics and current events. (He didn’t offer any comparative stats…
I have a new essay up at Niskanen on what elections, and confirmations, do and don’t settle.
Democracy is the rule of hooligans, and hooligans demand hooliganism from everyone else. Check Facebook, the news, the English department’s faculty meeting, or Twitter, and you’ll see that modern democracy…
While this volume edited by Todd Henderson (Chicago law) will apparently not be out in hard copy for a couple of days, it’s now available electronically for those whose university…
The evolution of the ideas of liberty” and “Libertarian conceptions of order”, both recordings of talks I gave at a Cato University event this month. (There’s also a Mike Munger…