Excerpted from the intro of chapter 5–perhaps my favorite chapter–of Against Democracy. “The instinct of worship is still so strong upon us that, having nearly worn out our capacity…
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…
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…
Criminal Law and Philosophy just published my paper “Consequences Matter More: In Defense of Instrumentalism on Private versus Public Prisons,” critiquing Alon Harel’s Why Law Matters. Abstract: Alon Harel wants to show that punishment…