September 07, 2016

Against Democracy at the National Interest

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,…

September 30, 2013

Ilya Somin: Democracy and Political Ignorance

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…