Thursday, May 11, 2023

Two-ish Cheers for Samuel Issacharoff's New Book

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My Hornbook review of Democracy Unmoored is now out at 3:16 AM Magazine here . I had actually expected it to appear at a different venue, bu...
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Friday, April 21, 2023

Yascha Mounk's New Book Isn't Really THAT Bad

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Yascha Mounk's The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure has taken some fairly visceral abuse of ...
Monday, March 27, 2023

Why Not Parliamentarism?--Review and Rejoinder

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My latest Hornbook Review at 3:16 AM is of Tiago Santos' excellent book on parliamentarism and can be found HERE . While we agree on the...
Tuesday, January 10, 2023

Jan-Werner Muller's Book is Very Good

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I have now reviewed a baker's dozen worth of books on democratic theory and closely related subjects for 3:16 AM Magazine since about th...
Wednesday, December 21, 2022

Two Sets of Strange Bedfellows on How to Live

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In an even more violent break from democratic theory than exemplified in my last couple of “Eastern Philosophy” entries (a practice I will a...
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Monday, December 5, 2022

A Deeper Dive Into Choosing, Wanting and Getting

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Not long ago I uploaded a piece here about the apparent tension between obtaining the goods of the world and what might be called an Eastern...
Friday, October 21, 2022

Partisanship, Polarization, and Halloweenish Fears

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  Ok, so hundreds of people running for office in elections being held in the U.S. in a few days are guaranteeing that if they win, they alr...
Wednesday, September 14, 2022

The More Good, the Better vs. The Wheel of Samsara

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It may seem that there is significant tension between what in Buddhist circles causes dukkha (the suffering that consists of existential dre...