In chapter 5 of Against Democracy, I attack “semiotic” or expressive arguments for democracy. These arguments try to prove that democracy is intrinsically just, or epistocracy is intrinsically unjust, because of…
Today at the the National Interest, I have a 300o-word adapted version of Against Democracy. Beginning: Just over twenty years ago Francis Fukuyama declared liberal democracy the end of history. But history marched on,…
In my view, what’s the most troubling argument against my view? I’m not impressed by any of the deontological arguments for democracy. But here’s a type of consequentialist objection which I’m…
Eric Schleisser considers himself a fierce critic of Brennanism. I’m not so sure he his, because he often seems to be arguing against positions that are closely related to mine,…
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…
Another except from chapter 5 (“Politics Is Not a Poem”) of Against Democracy. Thomas Christiano bases an argument for the duty to…