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Sunday, February 28, 2021

Can Non-partisan Electoral Systems Produce Coherent Policies that are Responsive to the Electorate?

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In my book I take the position that a bipartite voting system is necessary to get a good sense of what the people in any group want. And I o...
Monday, February 15, 2021

How a Procedural Democrat Can Respond to Critics of "Responsiveness"

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  In my book, I argue that, as it is intrinsically good for an individual to get what she or he wants, so it is also good for a group. And, ...
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Wednesday, January 20, 2021

Interview by Richard Marshall for 3:16 AM

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  I was just honored to be interviewed by "philosopher whisperer" Richard Marshall, late of 3 AM Magazine  and now publisher of th...
Saturday, January 16, 2021

Who cares about democracy?

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  Just mused about the DC riots in this essay for Erraticus:  Who Cares About Democracy?
Monday, November 16, 2020

What Americans Really Think About Democracy in 2020

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  Here's the interview with someone at a Trump rally that I'm waiting to see: "You think Trump actually won this election?...
Wednesday, November 11, 2020

Three Important Virtues of Approval Voting (that I plan to detail in a new paper)

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  Approval Voting (“AV”) has had its champions. In their eponymous book on the subject, Steven Brams and Peter Fishburn set forth a list o...
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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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. During COViD I wrote a book on democratic theory and started reviewing 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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