In this essay, I summarize major points of my Ethics for Enemies. I first consider whether torture of a wrongdoer to save his victim could…
Covering more than four decades of American social and political history, The Loneliness of the Black Republican examines the ideas and…
In a recent Vox article, political scientists David Brookman and Joshua Kalla provocatively asked why campaigns invest so little in high-…
What does it mean to put the civic idea at the center of one's concerns in this way? And what is its connection to citizenship? What,…
Partisan identity shapes social, mental, economic, and physical life. Using a novel dataset, we study the consequences of partisan identity…
In his new book, The Big Disconnect: Why the Internet Hasn’t Transformed Politics (Yet), Personal Democracy Forum founder Micah Sifry asks…
Should political campaigns in close races communicate that they may win (over-confidence) or that they may lose (under-confidence)? In six…
The study of ethics and leadership can be traced back to Aristotle and the Ancient Greeks. Against the backdrop of corporate, political,…