Voting should be compulsory. E.J. Dionne Jr. and Miles Rapoport have a book-length argument to this effect, but they also do a nice...

In his blog Philosopher's Beard, Thomas R. Wells makes the point that we err dangerously when we say "Russia did this" or "the US is...

It's comforting, in this terrible time, to complain that Vladimir Putin is a thug, or a maniac, or evil. And if it's not all his fault, ...