If you are not reading David Brooks anyway, you should be.  I highly recommend his latest piece.  Brooks’ evaluation of the most recent foiled terror plot and what it reveals about our relationship to our governing institutions is instructive.
For better or worse, over the past 50 years we have concentrated authority in centralized agencies and [...]

I had a random thought motivated by Tiger Woods’ mysterious auto accident.  Imagine that a professional athlete whose sport is played professionally primarily or only in the United States got into some sort of personal or legal trouble that forced them to flee the United States (I am NOT suggesting that Tiger Woods is in [...]

A less intrusive government that grants me greater personal freedom sounds attractive.  But so do all of the goods and service I receive with the discounts attached for participating in bulk participation in a growing state.  Max Weber felt that the expansion of bureaucracy was an inevitable result of increased technical sophistication, both with regard [...]

(Cross-Posted in comments at Public Reason)
Jason Brennan of Brown University with an interesting take on the implications of Condorcet Jury Theorem:
So, if you defend democracy using the standard formulation of Condorcet’s Jury Theorem, it seems that you should think having 120 million Americans vote is kind of a waste of time. It would be far [...]