June 15, 2022 • Divided We Fall

The Impact of Voter Turnout on Polarization

Will Increasing Turnout So Everyone Votes Reduce Polarization and Extreme Partisanship? Will Increasing Turnout So Everyone Votes Reduce Polarization and Extreme Partisanship? By Michael Neblo, Jason Brennan, and Whitney Quesenbery. Engaging Constituents is […]


May 4, 2022 • SAGE Publishing

Why not anarchism?

Recent debates over ideal theory have reinvigorated interest in the question of anarchy.

May 2, 2022 • E-International Relations

Interview with E-International Relations

Where do you see the most exciting research/debates happening in your field? Let’s talk specifically about democratic theory. Over on the normative side, that is, the side that is trying […]



March 28, 2022 • Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy

Why Paternalists Must Endorse Epistocracy

Recent findings from psychology and behavioral economics suggest that we are “predictably irrational” in the pursuit of our interests.

February 1, 2022 • Reason Magazine

Against Champagne Socialists

Why Bernie Sanders, Hasan Piker, and Elizabeth Warren should open their wallets before they open their mouths By Jason Brennan and Christopher Freiman It’s been a bad year in public […]

January 19, 2022 • 1517 Fund

Subversion with 1517

Jason Brennan on When You Can Violently Resist the Government






July 20, 2021 • Amazon

Business Ethics for Better Behavior

A clear and concise roadmap for ethical business behavior using commonsense moral principles.

April 28, 2021 • SAGE Publishing

Must Good Samaritans vote?

The ‘particularity problem’ is one of the most important objections to the putative duty to vote.

November 15, 2020 • Harper's Magazine

What’s in a Vote?

On Tuesday, November 3, Americans will cast their votes for president for the fifty-ninth time in our nation’s history.





July 30, 2020 • SAGE Publishing

A Prehistory of Liberty

Human beings are social animals, which means that we have to cooperate to survive.


June 24, 2020 • Wiley Online Library

Moral Philosophy’s Moral Risk

Commonsense moral thinking holds that people have doxastic, contemplative, and expressive duties, that is, duties to or not to believe, seriously consider, and