July 10, 2017
The Problem of Pluralism Isn’t Real
I recently read Linda Zerilli’s A Democratic Theory of Judgment. The book explores and sort of gestures at a solution to what we might call the Problem of Pluralism….
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August 17, 2016
The Page 99 Test: Against Democracy
“Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.” –Ford Madox Ford The Page 99 Test is a website that…
August 10, 2016
Is Democracy Like a Hammer, a Painting, or a Person?
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…
August 10, 2016
Against Democracy: Now Available From Amazon
Here’s my newest book, published by Princeton University Press, available on Amazon a few weeks ahead of schedule: I’d rather be the gadfly that stirs up the field than the…
August 05, 2016
Interview with me on Against Democracy
Against Democracy will be available a few weeks early, on August 9, from Amazon. German, Portuguese, and Italian translations will be available next year, and the German publisher will be flying…
July 29, 2016
“Democracy: How Does It Actually Work?” Reading List
What’s striking about most philosophical democratic theory is how irrelevant it is to justifying actual democracy. The common theme could be: “Here’s why democracy would be awesome…if only it worked entirely differently…