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27 Jan 2016, 8:00 am by Ilya Somin
Georgetown political philosopher Jason Brennan has an excellent post summarizing the reasons why the authority of actually existing democratic governments is not based on any meaningful consent. [read post]
8 Nov 2016, 7:05 am by Ilya Somin
Several important works warning about the dangers of political ignorance have been authored by libertarian scholars like Bryan Caplan and Jason Brennan (I critiqued Brennan’s insghtful recent book on the subject here). [read post]
12 Mar 2019, 1:55 pm by Ilya Somin
Georgetown political philosopher Jason Brennan, author of the important book Against Democracy (which I reviewed here), argues for replacing our current system of "first past the post" elections with proportional representation. [read post]
19 Mar 2015, 7:20 am
Jason Brennan discusses this latter scenario in greater detail in The Ethics of Voting. [read post]
13 May 2023, 2:11 pm by Ilya Somin
Jason Brennan is a more complicated case, as he advocates "epistocracy"—the idea that decision-making authority should be in the hands of the "knowers. [read post]
11 Sep 2022, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar and Jason Mazzone
House of Representative elections—were joined by many other famous liberal Justices such as Earl Warren and William Brennan. [read post]
15 Jan 2024, 12:13 pm by Ilya Somin
Jason Brennan, author of an important book on the morality of resistance to government power. [read post]
25 Feb 2013, 1:17 pm by Ritika Singh
From the Land of the Confirmation Battles: Karen DeYoung of the Washington Post has the latest on John Brennan’s nomination, which Senator John McCain has threatened to place a hold on if Brennan doesn’t provide details about the Benghazi attacks and his knowledge of the CIA’s enhanced interrogation program. [read post]
1 Jun 2020, 7:41 pm by Ilya Somin
I have also been much influenced by the works of other BHL contributors, such as Jason Brennan's books on political ignorance, and the ethics of voting, and Fernando Teson's writings on democratic deliberation and international justice. [read post]
3 Oct 2022, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar and Jason Mazzone
By the time the other (Mazzone) graduated in 1997, just nine years later, Clarence Thomas had replaced Justice Thurgood Marshall (and Justices Brennan, Marshall, and Blackmun were gone) and the Rehnquist Court’s federalism revolution (led by Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, whose federalism views were much sharper than those of her predecessor, Justice Potter Stewart) was underway. [read post]
6 Jun 2019, 3:45 am by Edith Roberts
” In an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal, Jason Riley looks at Justice Clarence Thomas’ concurrence last week in Indiana abortion case Box v. [read post]
2 Jan 2014, 12:45 pm by Ilya Somin
In my view, like Jason Brennan’s, voters have a moral obligation to be at least minimally informed. [read post]
18 Aug 2011, 2:23 pm by J. Gordon Hylton
Students from Marquette included: Ryan Albregts, Andrea Austin, Margaret Barr, Justin Bertron, Tyler Brennan, Allison Ceille, Jason Cooper, Alexandra Dziamski, Matthew Galvin, Cody Garza, John Graham, Patricia Heise, Aneet Kaur, Patrick Kern, Derek Kulland, Stephen Laczniak, Adam Lopez, Patricia Mattingly, Jonathan Meulemans, Brad Meyer, Jessica Pfau, Lauren Raupp, Bryan Strand, and Ryan Truesdale. [read post]
8 Nov 2011, 10:54 am by Ritika Singh
Shapiro, both of the Brennan Center for Justice, which puts forth proposals to reduce overclassification. [read post]
2 Aug 2018, 10:11 pm by Jeff Richardson
  In an article for Macworld, Jason Snell offered four interesting takeaways from the results. [read post]
26 Feb 2015, 8:05 am
Finally, I very much look forward to Jason Brennan and Peter Jaworski’s book Markets Without Limits. [read post]
25 Mar 2015, 2:36 pm
If we really wanted to model voting on jury service, we should adopt a voting lottery system along the lines suggested by Jason Brennan. [read post]
6 Oct 2010, 6:24 am by Adam Chandler
In today’s Washington Post, Ruth Marcus devotes her column to the new biography of Justice Brennan, Justice Brennan: Liberal Champion. [read post]