Bakers & Clerks: 5 Differences

Kim Davis, a county clerk in Rowan County, Kentucky, has refused to certify marriage certificates for same-sex couples. She has also forbidden her deputies from doing likewise. She requests an…

RPF, APSA

There’s an author-meets-critics roundtable on Rationalism, Pluralism, and Freedom Thursday at APSA: Richard Boyd (Georgetown), Sarah Mackenzie Burns (RIT), Paul Dragos Aligica (GMU), Avigail Eisenberg (Victoria), and Lucas Swaine (Dartmouth)…

September 02, 2015

Politicians Say Dumb Things because Saying Dumb Things is Smart

I have a post up at Princeton University Press’s Election 101 blog. I’ll be blogging there more regularly as the election season continues. Some posts will include material from Against Politics, which…

September 01, 2015

Comments on Stringham’s Private Governance

Reminder for DC area folks: The Mercatus Center will host a book panel on Sep 3, at 2:00, on Edward Stringham’s new OUP book Private Governance. It’s an excellent book. What’s…

August 30, 2015

Should You Go to Grad School? (Repost with slight revisions)

Congratulations! It’s your senior year of college. You’ve aced all your classes and love the life of the mind. You like writing research papers, and you’re smarter than half your…

August 29, 2015

A Solution for the Middle East

No region in the world is more afflicted by conflict than the Middle East. Without even touching on the nightmare that is ISIS, consider two issues. The West and Iran…