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Monday, October 26, 2020

What is “Distilled Populism”? (And Is It Dangerous?)

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I cannot here defend the particular items I believe to be required for distilled populism. For complete arguments, please consult my new boo...
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Saturday, October 24, 2020

How Politics Currently Works

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  This is probably all in Ibsen (and surely is in Christopher Buckley) but it bears repeating every once in awhile.    Suppose you'r...
Saturday, October 17, 2020

What, Exactly, IS Democracy? And Why Should We Care About It?

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It is very common--indeed quite reasonable!--for people to wonder what the point is of voting. After all, everybody knows that a single vote...
Friday, September 25, 2020

What is Wrong With One of Hamilton's Most Famous Federalist Papers

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In Federalist 15, Alexander Hamilton asks, 'Why has government been instituted at all?' He gives us this answer: “Because the passio...
Saturday, August 22, 2020

I'm extremely proud of the endorsements that will appear on the back cover of my new book on democracy.

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  Here they are in full. (They were shortened to fit on the cover.) Walter Horn's   D emocratic Theory Naturalized: The Foundations of D...
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I've published articles in the areas of epistemology, metaphysics, value theory, democracy, religion, and aesthetics (in such journals as JP, PPR, and Perspectives of New Music), and have edited a book on the philosopher Everett Hall, whose work I've championed for over 40 years. I've provided research and expert testimony to both the legislative and executive branches of Mass. government, and have been an occasional philosophy professor since 1978, when I received my Ph.D. from Brown University. Some of my papers can be downloaded from academia.edu and philpapers.org. I've written a book on democratic theory and review democracy books for 3:16 AM Magazine. I studied music composition in college but these days mostly improvise on synths, alone or with others. I have released improvised and composed music on such labels as Leo Lab, Tzadik, and Ogre-Ogress with talents like Gary Lucas, Mat Maneri, and Glenn Freeman. I used to interview musicians and review recorded music and books on music for Cadence Magazine, Signal to Noise, Bagatellen, and Paris Transatlantic. Some of my compositional and keyboard output can be heard on Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube.
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