For Whom the Heart Bleeds

In In Defense of Openness, Bas and I respond to supposedly “left-wing” opposition to open borders. Leftist opposition to open borders is especially puzzling. It usually begins with the controversial empirical…

The Rules of Tribal Politics

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…

Unicorn Socialism

In his recent defense of socialism, Corey Robin writes: The socialist argument against capitalism isn’t that it makes us poor. It’s that it makes us unfree. When my well-being depends…