In 1268 the Republic of Venice settled on a way to choose its doge that still looks like a puzzle invented to torment students. The Great Council drew thirty of its members by lot. The thirty were cut to nine […]
Why did a healthy oak, older than the town that killed it, actually have to die? Not the proximate answer — a hazard report, a rejected second opinion, a […]
Political philosophy usually hands you two options for what the state actually is, and asks you to pick a side. The liberal tradition, running from Locke through the American founding to most modern minarchists, treats the state as a neutral […]
Nothing on this site sorts cleanly onto a ballot line, and that's worth addressing directly rather than treating as an accident of subject matter. Personal Sovereignty argued that a Millian respect for individual judgment is the irreducible unit underneath the […]
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