Chris Bertram has just issued a rather worrisome post entitled, “Squeezing the Rich is Good: Even When It Raises No Money.” In other words, destroying huge amounts of wealth, intentionally,…
Democracy is a political system that empowers the masses, but at the same time incentivizes them (regardless of whether they have selfish or altruistic preferences) to be ignorant and irrational…
The other night I was watching Burn Notice, my favorite spy show. Our long suffering protagonist Michael Westen had just found out that after he spent 7 long seasons trying…
Corey Brettschneider, a political philosopher at Brown, has just published an interesting and thoughtful new book, When the State Speaks, What Should It Say? How Democracies Can Protect Expression and Promote…