So asks conservative British Member of the European Parliament Dan Hannan in today’s Washington Examiner. I’m among his targets, though, like many critics, he confuses epistocracy with technocracy. Still, his main…
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…
Chapter 2 of Against Democracy is titled “Ignorant, Irrational, Misinformed Nationalists.” It argues that voters are…well, go ahead and guess. There are a huge range of studies on voter behavior. These…
Update: Now in shiny Newsweek edition. I have a post at the Princeton University Press blog on Brexit, Democracy, and Epistocracy. Rather than saying whether the decision was right or wrong, I criticize the…
Zócalo Public Square has discussion today on democracies and the problem of demagogues. Here’s my piece. Excerpt: In a well-functioning democracy, elites and the people keep each other in check. To some…
Over at the Princeton University Press blog, I have a post today dispelling the popular myth that democracy rests on the consent of the governed. I don’t think the fact…