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  My Hornbook review of Sophia Rosenfeld's fascinating  Democracy and Truth: A Short History is now up at 3:16 AM Magazine  here.

So delighted to see this thoughtful review of my  Democratic Theory Naturalized: The Foundations of Distilled Populism  by Daniel Layman. I...

        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...