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        Gustav Radbruch         Franz Neumann In my previous blog entry on Laws, Legal Systems, and Government Power , I tried to explain th...

  Here's an excerpt:  " Suppose you are on a sea vessel that is rapidly taking on water. You are given an honest description of the...

I n my newly published paper on Harry Eckstein's "congruence theory" of democratic stability, I make a plea for political sc...

Lexington Books has just notified me that my book, Democratic Theory Naturalized, will available in paperback this Fall at a price of $39.99...

  Anne Applebaum's new book is called The Twilight of Democracy , and she is quite distraught about the fading away of...well... somethi...

  These days, I suppose that most people who think about the question of where laws and legal systems come from, have little doubt that they...

  Is there a best sort of governmental arrangement? Is the U.S. system with its President and Congress better than England's Westminster...

  My latest Hornbook Review  over at 3:16 AM is of the above-pictured book. While flawed in certain ways, I think it makes an important cont...

  The latest two of my "hornbook" democracy reviews now up at 3:16 AM are of the "debate book" by Michael Huemer and Dan...

Back when the atrocities of January 6 were fresh in our minds, I wrote a piece called " Who Cares About Democracy? " in which I op...

In my humble opinion, there is WAY too much talk about "the tyranny of the majority." What the majority has long been, in the U.S....

Majoritarianism seems pretty intuitive: when there is a disagreement, the faction with the most members should win. Why? Because every perso...

  The new review of mine that has popped up at  3:16 AM  is of Mary Anne Franks' ferocious attack on white male supremacy, and its alleg...

  My review of Adam Jentleson's new book on the evils of the U.S. Senate, its leaders, and, in particular, its Filibuster is now up at 3...