Saturday, May 25, 2024

I Try to Review Elgar Publishing's New (and Encyclopedic) "Handbook" on Populism

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My background is in philosophy, meaning that I'm not trained in any empirical science, social or otherwise. Neither can I properly be ca...
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Thursday, April 25, 2024

A Break From Democracy Articles With Some Democratic Music

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  While I slowly slog through Edward Elgar Publishing's new and massive Research Handbook on Populism , which will be the subject of my ...
Thursday, April 18, 2024

Are There Any Important New Books on Democracy That are Fun to Read?

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   After writing what seems like a hundred reviews of contemporary books on democratic theory, my own (likely idiosyncratic) view about the ...
Friday, March 8, 2024

Can "Wasted Vote" Really Mean All These Things?

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  Those who have hung around "voting reform" advocates for any period of time will have surely heard nearly every group brag that ...
Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Is Picking Representatives by Lottery More Democratic Than Electing Them?

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  There is widespread agreement these days that elections aren't working very well for the people of supposedly democratic polities arou...
Thursday, January 18, 2024

Fugitive Thoughts on the SEP entry on Democracy

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1      I am a big fan of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. I have learned a lot from it over the years and am generally very impres...
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Friday, January 5, 2024

Disinformation and the Seductiveness of Wonder

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  In 1960, William Newcomb, a physicist at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, concocted what might be called a greed paradox. He asked peopl...
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