What Are Democrats Thinking?
Democratic voters want to end the filibuster, nationalize artificial intelligence, and prosecute every Trump toady.
You Were Right, Dad, About the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
When you’re a kid, authority isn’t the stuff of political theory, it’s a feature of the landscape.
Antidemocratic Candidates and Democracy
“One of the best jokes of democracy [was that] it provided its mortal enemies itself the means through which it
The Illiberalism of Prenatal Selection
The American eugenics movement aimed to improve our national destiny by gatekeeping the gene pool out of which would be
A Nationalism Untethered to History
With a breezy preface that approvingly references recent political developments in America and Britain, Yoram Hazony’s The Virtue of
Jacob Levy's Liberalism of Tragedy
Against a liberalism of pre-political foundations and historical destiny, Jacob Levy has been working hard to recover a vision
Did the Enlightenment Give Rise to Racism?
Slate chief political correspondent Jamelle Bouie set off a heated online debate with a series of tweets[1] claiming “the
Tendencies and Contingencies: On Social Constructivism
Recently, Canadian philosopher Joseph Heath wrote an essay on social constructivism in which he tries to clean up some ambiguities
Throwing Shade on the Enlightenment
Slate writer Jamelle Bouie caused quite a kerfuffle by discussing the racist elements within the Enlightenment, first with a series
Is Internet Access a Right?
As a teenager I would mow lawns. The implicit contract was relatively simple, but it illustrates the relationship between claims
The Road to Citizens United, Revisited: A Review of 'We the Corporations'
In the 2010 Supreme Court case Citizens United v. FEC, the Court went out of its way to rule on
The Eclipse of Thought
Michael Polanyi’s preface to his 1951 book The Logic of Liberty begins: “These pieces were written in the course
Hayek’s Reimagined Economics and What It Lacked
F. A. Hayek was, to use Peter Boettke’s phrase, a “lifelong learner,” changing his position on a variety of