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Brandon Vindicated (and Relieved!)
I read a lot of blogs in my spare time, and one of my favorites is the Monkey Cage, a blogging consortium made up of technocratic, internationalist-minded Left-wing political science professors. They...
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What Would A Political Union of the EU, the NAFTA States and Japan-South...
I’ve known about the relative poverty of Western Europe compared to the United States for quite some time now, but it’s always nice to see this little tidbit get some love in the national and...
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A New Chicago School?
Consider America’s transportation system. I like to imagine that it ought to be a certain way. I imagine a world where a lot of freight travels competitive rail lines. And occasionally a transport...
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Why not world government? Part 2
In Part 1 we gave a general definition to what world government, or ‘monopolis’ as I’ve suggested, was. Key to our definition was that a monopolis was neither inherently libertarian nor...
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Democracy: Warts and All
I am currently writing a paper for a political philosophy course on my ideal state (we are reading Plato’s Republic). I have made it a democratic one, despite some serious misgivings. I realize that...
View ArticleHalliday’s ‘The World’s Twelve Worst Ideas’
I came across a collection of essays and blogs by the late Fred Halliday, entitled Political Journeys (2007), published in the last few years of his life. Halliday, who died in 2010 at only 64 years of...
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Intellectuals and a century of political hero worship William Anthony Hay, Modern Age John Stuart Mill: a not so secular saint James Smith, Los Angeles Review of Books Irving Babbitt’s history of...
View ArticleThe Admissions Scandal Will Improve Universities
I would have been annoyed, I would have felt frustrated if my alma matter, Stanford, had been left out of the university admissions scandal. After all, what does it say about your school if it’s not...
View ArticleMending Wall
Robert Frost’s lovely poem, “Mending Wall,” says something profound about the importance of the institution of property. The poem is about Frost and his neighbor meeting together to piece together a...
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Communist China’s dream of total information Arunabh Ghosh, AeonThe romance of American Communism Hannah Gold, CommonwealThe Last Utopians: Four late-19th century visionaries Robert Greer, History...
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