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30 Oct 2016, 4:37 pm by Brian Leiter
Do read Achen & Bartels, Demoracy for Realists, which I am grateful to Jason Brennan for flagging. [read post]
25 Oct 2016, 8:03 pm by Ilya Somin
The other participants were Jason Brennan (Georgetown), Melissa Williams (University of Toronto), and Christopher Robichaud (Kennedy School, Harvard). [read post]
25 Oct 2016, 7:45 am by Ilya Somin
Georgetown political philosopher Jason Brennan argues that such deception is defensible if it prevents an ignorant or malevolent electorate from pushing through harmful and oppressive policies. [read post]
16 Oct 2016, 7:22 pm by Smita Ghosh
In The New Republic, Alan Wolfe takes on Roth’s book as well as Jason Brennan’s Against Democracy, which “argues for the establishment of an epistocracy, or rule by the wise. [read post]
12 Sep 2016, 5:31 pm by Ilya Somin
Several of the signers are prominent libertarian scholars, such as Jason Brennan and Peter Jaworski, authors of the important recent book Markets Without Limits. [read post]
3 Sep 2016, 5:10 pm by Ilya Somin
Georgetown political philosopher Jason Brennan’s important new book Against Democracy challenges a basic precept that most people take for granted: the morality of democracy. [read post]
30 Aug 2016, 12:48 pm by Ilya Somin
Readers interested in this subject should also check out Jason Brennan’s own important new book, Against Democracy, which I plan to review soon. [read post]
15 Aug 2016, 4:22 am by Brian Leiter
This is both funny and apt, from philosopher Jason Brennan (Georgetown); some political philosophy types (but check out the whole thing): 2. [read post]
12 Aug 2016, 8:00 am by Ilya Somin
Voting well means making your choice from a standpoint of informed consideration and with an eye toward the common good, says Jason Brennan, a political philosopher at Georgetown University and author of The Ethics of Voting. [read post]
25 Jul 2016, 9:00 am by Brian Leiter
This essay in the NYRB makes for timely reading (I've been reading the Achen & Bartels book, on recommendation of Jason Brennan, and... [read post]
13 Jul 2016, 5:00 am by JB
As noted previously, I'm publishing a few discussion notes from the forthcoming supplement to the Brest Levinson casebook, which I prepare every summer following the end of the Supreme Court Term.This year I decided to write a short note for students taking them through the issues in the controversy over the appointment of Justice Scalia's successor. [read post]
1 Jul 2016, 8:05 am by Ilya Somin
Examples of this sort of reaction to Brexit include recent articles by Jason Brennan (a leading expert on political ignorance and the ethics of voting), and Emily Badger of Wonkblog, here at the Washington Post. [read post]
26 Jun 2016, 12:25 pm by Ilya Somin
Georgetown Professor Jason Brennan, one of the world’s leading academic experts on voting and political knowledge, argues that the Brexit case suggests that we should not allow such decisions to be made by popular referendum. [read post]
17 Jun 2016, 11:43 am by JB
As Jason Brennan argues in his excellent book The Ethics of Voting, ordinary voters also act unjustly when they  cast ballots without making even a modest effort to become informed about the issues at stake. [read post]
1 Apr 2016, 1:08 pm by Kim Krawiec
On Monday, I’ll be at CU Boulder’s Center For Western Civilization, Thought, & Policy, along with Jason Brennan (Associate Professor of Strategy, Economics, Ethics & Public Policy, Georgetown University) and Margaret Jane Radin (Michigan Law, Toronto Law) to discuss and debate the moral limits of free markets. [read post]
1 Apr 2016, 4:25 am by Brian Leiter
Jason Brennan (Georgetown) on his experience replying to critics (most recently, of his views about the adjunct problem): The philosophy blogosphere has a quite a few people, writing anonymously, who write nasty, angry, and dishonest invective against others, but then... [read post]