Last semester I organized a student Reading Group at The College of New Jersey on Jason Brennan’s and Peter Jaworski’s excellent Markets Without Limits. Not surprisingly, this volume generated a…
Here’s a nice article from Scientific American’s Mind’s September edition on becoming a better voter, including parts of an interview with me on this topic. Excerpt: “We’ve found that having more information…
Another except from chapter 5 (“Politics Is Not a Poem”) of Against Democracy. Thomas Christiano bases an argument for the duty to…
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…
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…
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…