What’s wrong with the headline? Let me take an attempt at it.
There are many reasons why Trump filing to run is newsworthy. It speaks for itself. So focusing on his attempts to overturn the election, while it is a relevant and important fact, seems like editorializing.
Nov 18, 2021 • 20 tweets • 3 min read
So based on this tweet and the subsequent interaction, Jason Stanley blocked me.
The kerkuffle raised the question, which several people brought up to me, namely, shouldn't we trust Jason about what he says about fascism because he is an expert who wrote a book about it?
It’s hypocritical for Democrats to complain when Republicans violate people’s democratic rights and then turn around and do it themselves.
Apr 4, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Just completed a draft of my chapter on Voting Rules for the Routledge Handbook of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
Comments welcome!
Draft available here:
drive.google.com/file/d/1E6fqmf…
The paper presents an elementary introduction to the axiomatic analysis to voting rules in the tradition of social choice.
My approach is to focus on majority rule as a central case, and to define axioms, concepts, problems and alternative rules in relation to majority rule.
Mar 17, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
One point that came up in discussing the Coase Theorem is whether mathematical theorems of the form Assumptions => Conclusion are tautologies.
I am thinking in the context of economic theory.
Set aside the distinction between theorems of propositional logic and logical truths more generally.
Jun 22, 2019 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
@pdsegal 1/First point: You mention politicians, but that’s not primarily who I have in mind. I have in mind primarily character attacks on Twitter aimed not at politicians or people exercising power, but people who produce ideas.
@pdsegal 2/What is the net effect of a single Twitter mob ganging up on an academic or public intellectual or other person or pundit who produces ideas on the livelihoods of people?
May 29, 2019 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
1/It's interesting that people are treating Pelosi's desire to maximize Dems' electoral prospects as a base motive that puts party before country.
Some say that for Dems to make electoral calculations while criticizing Republicans for defending Trump is hypocritical.
2/What this overlooks is that because it is Trump who is threatening our country, maximizing Dem electoral prospects & protecting our country are not independent goals:
Removing Trump from office will only happen through an election in which the Dem presidential candidate wins.
Apr 6, 2019 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
1/Someone who I know claimed that in the clip in the tweet I quoted, Trump was not talking about asylum seekers. I looked into it, and I believe that Trump was not talking about about asylum seekers but rather he was talking about undocumented immigrants.
2/The person who raised this also claimed that Trump was talking about MS-13. When I looked into it I found this latter claim to be misleading. Here is the original clip. It is from May 2018.
