Tribal Reasoning and Public Reasoning – Reply to Brennan and My Take on Achen and Bartels
Now that Bleeding Heart Libertarians has closed up shop, the BHL diaspora has begun. Jason Brennan, Chris Frieman, and Jess Flanigan – all friends – have started up a new blog with a different approach – 200-proof liberals. I recommend subscribing to it, though it is meant to have a very different rhetorical style than […]
My Recent Podcasts on Trust, Polarization, Liberalism, and Must Politics Be War?
In case you’re driving around and have a chance to listen to some podcasts, I recorded two in the last few weeks on The Philosophy Guy and The Curious Task. We talk about the book, but also a whole range of related issues, like the nature and sources of political polarization, the relationship between liberalism […]
Must Politics Be War? on the Political Theory Review Podcast
Jeffrey Church, host of The Political Theory Review podcast, interviewed me yesterday about Must Politics Be War? If you haven’t read the book yet, but want to explore its main ideas and arguments, listen to this podcast.
Beto Makes Politics War
Last night, Beto O’Rourke said that religious institutions that refuse to accept same-sex marriage should lose their tax-exempt status. That’s a sure fire way to make politics war: use the federal government to stigmatize half the country. Every conservative mosque, synagogue, and church in the country would be tarred by their own government as bigoted […]
Interviewed at 3:16 AM on Must Politics Be War?
, a popular site for discussion of new work in philosophy. We primarily discuss my book, Must Politics Be War? (which you can buy from a link on the right of the blog or at the link), but we also talk about American politics, my biography, and my work on the proper role of religion […]
Must Politics Be War? in 500 words
My recent book, Must Politics Be War? Restoring Our Trust in the Open Society, argues that liberal democratic order has the unique capacity to avoid a war-like politics. Here’s a summary of the problem and my solution. The problem of political war: low social and political trust leads to a war-like politics. But high trust […]